Brooklyn Heights Dad Outraged Over Man Who Urinated in Front of His Home and Kids

By on October 17, 2014 2:56 pm in Parents

Well, if this dispatch from a BHB reader is true, we’ve reached a new low in Brooklyn Heights. Sure, any of us who grew up in New York City back in the 70s would just call this incident “Tuesday”. But this is 2014 and this is pretty outrageous.

Read on:

Our nanny was leaving our garden apartment at about 10am this morning with our 3-year old and 6-month old girls. She opened our front door to find this man (photo attached), with trousers dropped and coffee cup in hand, using our little front porch area as his bathroom. It’s the second time she found this same guy urinating on our home while she was watching our little girls. In broad daylight.

I’ll be filing a report with the 84th precinct later today. But we know they have higher priorities than chasing this sort of thing down.

It seems like maybe this guy lives or works in the neighborhood, or might pass through on a routine basis. It’s tough to make him out in the picture, but he’s wearing a distinctive T-shirt and perhaps it’s from a local business.

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  • Joe A

    oh cindy, you are such an exaggerating drama queen. You must be unbearable to be around. The sky is falling, the sky is falling!

  • David on Middagh

    I probably shouldn’t take credit for noticing the file name of the photograph. (Tho’ I do like your street.)

  • CoffeeDrinker

    Aah then you can take credit for being a good web sleuth.

  • David on Middagh

    > blushes <

  • Mark on Middagh

    Gotta be a few inexpensive nanny cams out there that you could place in the window. I hope you catch him, although it is starting to get a little cool for urination alfresco.

  • cindy sm

    As shown by the last 40 years degrada tion of “quality of life” quickly leads
    To far more serious declines in area
    Safety. Those who do not understand
    This or would belittle this basic reality
    Do not receive or deserve a safe place
    To live.

  • Joe A

    If you think howling at public meetings will stop New Yorkers from sometimes peeing in public then you are even more clueless then I suspected.

    No, I think some people just like to howl. I get it. You are a howler. You’ve demonstrated that repeatedly. It must make you feel good or superior or something. There is no epidemic of public peeing cindy, just an unfortunate side effect of living in a big, crowded city. Get over it and stop howling at the moon.

  • Joe A

    By all measures, safety has dramatically improved over the last 40 years. You know that right?

  • Klezmer O’Brien

    Actually, he might be. Exposing yourself is exposing yourself.

    You’re not supposed to do it. Everybody knows you’re not supposed to do it.

    And taking a leak in broad daylight in a front yard that is not your own in front of somebody’s kids is on the borderline between rude and perverse…

  • Klezmer O’Brien

    Peeing on somebody’s front yard is against the law.

  • Klezmer O’Brien

    It depends. If they had you in a compromised position with the chicken, I would believe them.

    If not, I would be skeptical.

    But some rude guy peeing in the front yard is just vulgar behavior – much easier to believe. If you see the guy, have your camera ready….

  • Eddyde

    Actually, not a “crime” it is called “urinating in public” a violation, not a serious offense.

  • MonroeOrange

    well if that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black.

  • Hicksup

    So if it’s it’s “easy to believe” that make’s it ok!!!

  • ml77

    I hope this isn’t a trend, but I had a run-in with one of these types about a month ago. I saw a guy peeing into the bushes next to the ramp up to the southern end of the Promenade. This was mid-afternoon in broad daylight with lots of people passing by. I said “Really?” And the jerk actually defended it! He said “I had to go. Where am I supposed to go?” How bout not in public! Unbelievable.

  • Joe A

    Klezmer my friend you still don’t get it. Yes urinating in public is a violation (like going through a stop sign) but no one has any idea if this guy actually did what was claimed, certainly not the editor of this blog. Do you think that it is possible that someone might say something about somebody that may not be true? Do you unflinchingly believe everything you hear?

  • Klezmer O’Brien

    No, I don’t believe everything I hear.

    But I do believe things that stand up to the common sense test.

    Which is a combination of having lived in the heights for a long time and seeing some pretty rude things happen…and in the pantheon of trying to call attention to oneself, accusing a guy you don’t know of peeing in your front yard in broad daylight while your young daughters are there seems like an odd way to call attention to oneself.

    Thus, in this case, I believe the story.

    But as you say, this is a blog, not a court of law. Also, you would feel differently about the minor infraction of running through a stop sign if your kid or your mother got hit, maimed or killed as a result.

  • CoffeeDrinker

    I’m the dad who reported this incident to BHB. I provided my phone number and my first and last name. With that info, I’m suspecting BHB learned (within seconds) that I’m in fact a neighborhood dad. And since I didn’t try conceal my identity and was a reporting a very believable occurrence, I’d say it was reasonable to conclude that this was a legit report.

    Since this is a blog, I think that’s a decent enough standard for posting the info. The rest of the scrutiny is getting very nicely crowdsourced here in these comments.

  • cindy sm

    There are people who don’t like any
    One making accurate unflinching observations On what in actually
    occurring and give honest advice
    On what is needed to stop the ob-
    Jectionable activity.

    That’s unfortunate but the responsible
    Cannot be deterred by the less stable
    Or the less honest….

  • Joe A

    Actually it can be found in the Penal Law as Exposure of a Person. Again it is not a crime it is a violation.

    § 245.01 Exposure of a person.

    A person is guilty of exposure if he appears in a public place in such a manner that the private or intimate parts of his body are unclothed or exposed. For purposes of this section, the private or intimate parts of
    a female person shall include that portion of the breast which is below the top of the areola. This section shall not apply to the breastfeeding of infants or to any person entertaining or performing in a play, exhibition, show or entertainment.
    Exposure of a person is a violation.

  • Noodlesalad

    Seen him peeing on Monroe Pl, in someone’s garden to be exact. Saw him camped on Montague next to the toy store two days ago. He seems to have lost the wheel chair. But he was swigging beer at 8:30am.

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