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anniewilde · November 2006

One last thought. Maybe this can be the LAST time people get dissed for reporting criminal incidents? Frankly, nobody is going to bother to come on this blog and make that kinda shit up. Seriously, people are way too snide and snarky. People like rt220 need support, and frankly, people need to feel this blog is a safe space. Otherwise, they'll be afraid/intimidated to post, thereby making us all less safe, not to mention it's just downright mean behavior.

anonymous · November 2006

anniewilde - Bushwick has changed alot over the last few years and parts of it are much safer now. I have lived off the Montrose L stop for years now and find it ALOT less sketchy than parts of CH i have been in. Around Montrose/Morgan there is a pretty tight knit community of artists and younger professional types and if this is the area rt220 is thinking about moving to I would say that she could choose much worse.

anniewilde · November 2006

yeah? I believe you--I know bushwick is sort of the new williamsburgish place--I just know that I've heard about lots of crime there too. But does it have trees? I am wondering because I have a friend, an artist with a small kid--who is thinking of moving here and I told her I thought of Bushwick as treeless, relatively industrial, and pretty dangerous. Am I wrong? CH can be definitely sketchy--and BTW, people elsewhere on the blog are now using "Crackhead O'Clock" as an expression! It's really pretty brilliant--but there's nothing like the parks, trees, and the Parkway...I call it the Green Ghetto...Now if we could just get a few hundred more artists of all colors, ages, and sexualities to move in, it would rock--especially if we also had a few community art centers, cafes, and even just ONE little organic store...anybody listening?

anonymous · November 2006

There ARE a hundred ( - more!) artists here already of all colors, ages, and sexualities here already; they are buying my neighbors out by the minute. People who grew up here and who want to stay...
BUT - that's not what I wanted to discuss. RT220 - I think you can look at this two ways. What happened is Awful but you can either take off 100mph or try to build up some umph, so to speak. It's good to be able to scream (like someone suggested earlier) or go off and fucking curse like a motherfucker - learn how to be loud and offensive back. Ie; show that you're nice and friendly and all that - but that you also have a line that no-one should pass.
I just cannot understand why you went BACK to that place?! The owner was fine watching you be robbed - and you go BACK?! You dense or something?! That is certainly to show that people can walk all over you. Obviously what happened is not your fault, but it seems to me that you are more than a little slow to react. Get pissed!
That's my two cents... Hang in there RT220.

tamara · November 2006

Hey, I thought there was one on Bedford? I thought I saw it by the college, but it was a while ago, so they might have closed..

anonymous · November 2006

anniewilde- there is a DIY organization in Bushwick called trees not trash that have been planting trees and creating gardens out of lots,etc...there is also a small park right around the corner from the Morgan stop that is pretty nice....there are certainly sections that are largely industrial and definitely some blocks that are dicey but the most obvious crime that i see is car break ins..they see(just noticed a new one being worked on on Montrose....some restaurants...its really a good time to get in if you can while it is not obscenely expensive.

anonymous · November 2006

OH..and there is a great natural/health foods store called Brooklyn Natural off Morgan.....it's like a small Whole Foods...great place.

anonymous · November 2006

The more I think about it, the more I think lostingreenwoodhts is right; this can;t be for real. ...Or?!
You're in Brooklyn - Not in a sleepy mid western town! I just don't understand who someone who has chosen to live at St. Johns and Franklin and has been there for a year can be so unable to REACT. I just don't get it. RT220; did you just crawl out from under a rock?!?!

lostingreenwoodhts · November 2006

Anonymous wrote: The more I think about it, the more I think lostingreenwoodhts is right; this can;t be for real. ...Or?!
You're in Brooklyn - Not in a sleepy mid western town! I just don't understand who someone who has chosen to live at St. Johns and Franklin and has been there for a year can be so unable to REACT. I just don't get it. RT220; did you just crawl out from under a rock?!?!

Anon Guest, regardless of the validity of her posts (and I am more apt to weigh in that these are legit posts by a scared person), no need to be nasty. This is "play nice" space. You are certainly entitled to your opinions, and should express them as such.

Let's not just go after folks for now reason :evil:

leeho · November 2006

Greenwood, I'm confused by your abrupt change in skepticism.

I am standing by my disbelief in this story, or maybe I'm standing by my not caring too much about it. Shitty things can happen in this city, or anywhere for that matter. It is not indicative of the neighborhood or New York City.

So, RT220, just go and move like you said you would and put the whole "fiasco," real or imagined, behind you.

lostingreenwoodhts · November 2006

LeeHo, My skepticism was on where the post was "real" or not, not the story...and her reaction in not going to the cops immediately.

As you have seen, there have been troll posts from time to time to get folks all up in arms...

I hope that RT220 has gained a huge dose of "street smarts" and will not be put in a situation like these 2 again.

Having been there myself, I can understand the frustration and fright. Moving to a different nabe may not be the answer if you are too spooked to go outside by yourself. Shit, folks get robbed in the Slope and Bklyn Hts., and those nabes (and this IS NOT A JUDGMENT) are a far cry socio-economically from CH.

homeowner · November 2006

I'm somewhat skeptical, only because I can't imagine being broke, going to the store with the last of my money and letting someone take it from me. Then to have the person pull out a $50 and pay for cigarettes?

Is it possible? Sure, but how do you let yourself get played like that?

How do you not try to fight back or stop the person or something? I've lived through those starving college student days and let me tell you, I would have kicked someone's ass if that was what stood between me and my last dollar. And a middle aged woman at that? I would have at least tried to take her and called the cops immediately.

The reason we all go through junior high is to teach you how not to react to bullies. Standing up crying didn't work when the cool 7th grade girls picked on you after gym class and it isn't going over on Franklin and St. John's.

tamara · November 2006

smells like dead fish. I don'te beleive it. I live 2 blocks away, and yes there are people there all the time, probably even hustlers. BUT the man in that corner store wouldn't have acted like that, and I've done laundry at crackhead o'clock night like a thousand times on that block, and the only people that have bothered me while I was outside smoking a cigarette were actually cops. Rollin' by sloooooooowly, slooooooowly staring at me.

neene · November 2006

anniewilde wrote: ...Now if we could just get a few hundred more artists of all colors, ages, and sexualities to move in, it would rock--especially if we also had a few community art centers, cafes, and even just ONE little organic store...anybody listening?

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anonymous · November 2006

rt220 wrote: also for those who were asking , i did call the cops tonite , i told them what happened and asked what the next step of action was , ( i.e. incident report etc.) was told , " well this is a rough neighborhood , be careful, if it happens again we'll send a squad car over, good luck " and that was that.......

If you are not satisfied with the response of the police dept. contact the commanding officer at the 77th precinct. His name is John Cosgrove 718-735-0611. or Community Affairs 718-735-0634.

anonymous · November 2006

DUCK TALES.

anonymous · December 2006

Sorry to hear this happened to you.

There are some mean mf'ers in this world, both black and white.

I tend to dismiss any racism directed at me as simple ignorance, but getting robbed is another story. If I was in that situation I'd demand the clerk reimburse me immediately or I'd call the cops on the spot and implicate him as an accesory to the crime. Even if nothing comes of it, at least you go home with the satisfaction that you did something about it. Two weeks later, there's not much you can do.

bojolais · December 2006

There are some apartments for rent on St Johns Place b/w Nostrand and New York aves... Things seem to be calmer down here... unless I am oblivious... It's a new building being rented by corcoran. stuidos and one bedrooms

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