Fight and shots on Park Place

I don't see anything on Breaking News Network about it, so I hope that means no one was actually hit by the gunfire.This was near Park Pl and what cross street?Classon?Franklin?Nostrand?From your account, it sounds as if one of the youth had a gun on them. For some reason, I find that more disturbing than the stories that involve a kid "running somewhere, and then returning with a gun".

Yep, heard most and saw a little. It seemed to start with a guy and girl out in the street fighting (never could figure out why he had no shirt or coat on) and escalated from there. Saw the guy get chased down the block and return a few minutes later to get into his car which was double-parked and running in front of the apartment building. Cops pulled up had some words with him and the other 2-3 people with him and he drove off. 10-15 minutes later a flurry of shots and lots of people coming in an and out of the middle apartment building. I called 911 after the shots and a couple of patrol cars and an ambulance responded (but interestingly, not the police van that had originally shooed away the pugilist). There was a middle-aged woman at the front door seemingly blocking the cops from coming in and pointing down towards NY Ave as if the shooting took place there.Newguy, have you noticed that one of the apartments on the top floor of the middle building seems to be used as a club on the weekends? They have a full on LED DJ moving lighting system installed which you can see from the street at night.

Contact Information for the 77th Pct... Precinct: (718) 735-0611Community Affairs: (718) 735-0634Community CouncilPresident: James CaldwellMeetings: The 77th Precinct community council meeting is held every second Monday of the month at 7:30 P.M. at Wesleyan Methodist Church 1024 Bergen Street, (bet. Rogers Ave & Nostrand).http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_077.shtmlIf they are acting as a nightclub, you could probably fill out this complaint form on line with the SLA, which would then forward it to the 77th pct.Sometimes local pcts take things received from the SLA more seriously than those they receive from local folks.http://www.trans.abc.state.ny.us/JSP/complaintreg/ComplaintRegistryPage.jspAnd, one could also contact our new City Council Rep, Laurie [email protected] is in the process of establishing an office at 1000 Dean, but I don't think it is up and running yet.

It was definitely a police van. The original argument had died down by that time (I'd guess it was 10-15 minutes after the height of the initial dustup). There were only a handful of people outside at that point, and as soon as the van came through the intersection, people either went back in the vestibule of the building where the original action occurred or started the "I don't know anything, I'm just walking" stroll towards Nostrand. Given the fact that the same van didn't return, its possible it was cops coming through the neighborhood, just trying to get the double parked cars moving and didn't even realize there had been a fight there a few minutes earlier.The whole apartment club thing is new. I first noticed during the Christmas/New Year's week and assumed it was just a holiday party. However, since then the lights have been on each weekend. As someone who has been here for a while, those buildings have been the source of a lot of problems although things have gotten incrementally better over the years. It always seems to be a group of late-teens, twenty-somethings and the arguments run the gamut from girl-fights to drug disputes. I believe that most of the combatants do not actually live there but are nieces, nephews, grandkids, etc. and their friends that are coming to visit relatives in the building. When I first moved to the neighborhood, the fights probably averaged 2 a month. Now we're down to 3-4 a year. If we can get the last vestiges of the drug crew that used to operate out of 849 off the block and stop the young ones on the Rogers/Nostrand block from believing that a vacuum exists that can move into, the block should get even quieter.I'd start with Assemblyman Camara. He lives on the block and has two small kids. I think he has a stake in stopping the fist-stick-knife-gun escalations from happening.

As I said, its far from an every weekend occurrance. However, when the fights come they are large and crazy!