Students Go Wild on Pineapple Street

In what probably felt like a throwback to the bad old days of the Hotel St. George, Pineapple Street residents were “treated” to loud late night fisticuffs reportedly between dorm students early Saturday morning.  One resident sent this dispatch:

There was a fight Friday night under the sidewalk shed on Pineapple Street just east of Hicks Street between students from the Pace University dorm on Henry in the old St George about 2am. This started with 2 people, grew to three, then more joined in. Actual argument changed into a fight with people running out into the street, girls and boys joined in together, about 7-8 participants. I called 911 several times, but it was about 20 minutes until a police car showed up.

I left my name and phone number with 911. Action stopped when I opened my window and screamed out “We called 911!” Participants mostly headed off toward Henry Street.

Back in the day, regular brawls and altercations were part of everyday life in and around the St. George.  Now that rowdy students seem to be moving in regularly (Guder and Rex were dormers), is it time for the “dorm experiment” to end?

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  • George Earl

    How about better-trained cops on the Henry & Clark Street corner? The students occupying the St. George are showing all of we devoted Heights residents that the “beer belly” routine happens a lot earlier than middle age. Still, if they’ve got to show their butch sides (whichever gender they are), get ’em deeper into Brooklyn. There are a lot of area of this fine borough where perspiration, temper tantrums, and threats make the man. Not ’round here! But then, they’re away from their paying parents for the first time in their lives. Maybe that’s the inspiration?

  • ClarknHenry

    I think the kids in the St. George are completely disrespectful of the neighborhood… And their neighbors. Aside from the constant barrage of litter on the street (I picked up 17 paperairplanes over the past three days-all of which came from St. George windows) they are obnixiously loud up and Dow Henry Street nightly. You here them coming from blocks away… As if it were 12 noon rather than 4am. If that makes me an old fuddy fuddy: guilty as charged. If I wanted to live on frat house row, I certainly wouldn’t have moved to beautiful Brooklyn Heights.

    I have often thought of asking Christne Gaety (EHS cheif resident) to include a piece about BH history into their welcome packets, thinking that if they appreciated the uniquness of the neighborhood, they might be less inclined to trash it…

  • The Where

    Here’s the deal – these are undergrads from crappy schools. If Pace is the best of the lot you get the idea. Grad students would be a different story. However we’re talking about kids in the 13th grade.

  • ABC

    The fact that anyone think these kids are well into their just shows how old you really are.

  • x

    Sorry to say but Pace is a crappy college and these students are not there to study.

  • nabeguy

    But apparently they’re here to par-tay! While none of us may like the idea
    of our neighborhood being a satellite residence for a college across the river, some of the
    complaints that have been lodged against the students make us sound like we’d prefer to live in Century Village. Beer bottle clutter? Paper airplane litter? Sheesh.

  • ClarknHenry

    Nabeguy: CLEARLY their selfish antics are not interupting YOUR sleep.Consider yourself lucky, my friend.

  • Randall

    I used to live on Clark Street across from the building and fully appreciate the nuisance factor, but you’ve got to admit, complaining about (and counting) paper airplanes has to be a put on, right?

  • ClarknHenry

    To Randall: Am I really the only one concerned about all the trash that gets thrown down in the streets of Brooklyn Heights — sometimes a mere foot from the cans?? Every time I walk my dog, I pick up the trash (killing two birds, as it were…). When you pay attention, you notice things: someone who always makes the effort to deposit their dogs duty in a baggies, but then throws it on the ground… someone leaves an empty pack of Newports by the CVS on henry street every night… somebody elase, with a very large dog NEVER picks up after it… the Indian from the newstand in the St. George put out a bag filled with thousands of torn lottery tickets yesterday, which quickly got run over by a truck and it took my a full twenty minutes to pick them all up… Pickin up trash is just my thing. Perhaps it is because ot os a problem I can actually DO somthing about. My comment about the number of paper airplanes was a comment on their disrespect for the neighborhood, nothing more. The number is irrelevant. I think it is a larger societal issue. The social contract is just BROKEN. But the point of my comment was this: When that dorm fills up with students, our quality of life takes a nosedive. Simple as that.