Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 2 Evacuated Today After Gunfire Reported

By on April 15, 2015 10:55 pm in brooklyn bridge park, News

Update: The shooter has been arrested; fortunately, no one was shot. Thanks to reader “Bornhere” for the tip.

Details are sketchy, but Gothamist reports that there were unconfirmed reports of gunfire at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 2 (photo) this afternoon. Brooklyn Heights resident Thomas Hynes is quoted as saying he heard gunshots, and that there was a subsequent evacuation of the pier.

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  • My Royal Highness

    Willow Street Watch, how dare you! You call ME reactionary and try to place me in your small mind’s cube. Don’t label me with your ridiculous political tags… my darling, I am thankfully beyond. I do, however care a great deal about the genuine values which have sustained Western
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    Perhaps this is about you needing frisking. Go ahead, you’ve a ton of options ahead of you. But don’t you DARE… DARE… DARE… sacrifice mine, because your lens to ascertain your fellow CITIZENS’ rights has gotten all wobbly. If you feel you must be touched and felt up, to proclaim your innocence, then please know, that’s all about you.

  • My Royal Highness

    Sorry about that. ;-) Look, I’m no fan, just thought some BH’ers seemed to appreciate that sort of pleasantry, that the organization seeks to provide.

  • peterbrooklyn

    The basketball courts are the problem. Close the basketball courts and the problem largely goes away.

  • My Royal Highness

    No my little dummy”ling” it is you who don’t understand the reference. (Not shocking, since you brought up “chicken” as a deterrence. You are so gross.) Wolfe’s “radical chic” is just more of him demonstrating his disgust and bigotry towards “negroes”.

    Do you know anything of the lives destroyed by that hell-on-earth set of hours the jogger experienced. I am the first and last feminist, so don’t you dig dirty and hoist things upon her story in your name. The wrong names were crumbled. I know, one black one is all the same to you. But the wrong humans were harmed—all across the board.

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  • petercow

    Tell your doctor to increase your meds.

  • petercow

    It’s possible for both to be true. Shootings up, but total felonies, down.

    That said, it’s easier to manipulate/under-report other kinds of felonies. Shootings, really can’t be fudged.

  • memeadjuster

    I agree with you assessment that they “entrenched” themselves here.

  • jrak

    Nevertheless, NYPD’s tracking system indicates that shootings are up this year, There were 10 shootings that injured a dozen people overnight. The mayor’s Vision Zero plan to reduce traffic fatalities is premised on the belief that “no level of fatality on city streets is inevitable or acceptable.” Should we not have a a similar plan for reducing deaths and serious injury by shootings?

  • TeddyNYC

    True dat.

  • Obama

    Create a playground and dog park on pier 2 instead of the basketball courts.

  • William Spier

    Good discussion string with basically similar requests of government. As a person with a Ph.D. in sociology, and who lives quite near this park, I tended to think about these issues long ago. Except for the giant development at the end of Old Fulton (this needs serious journalist led investigation) that fatally mars the north end, the park has fulfilled its mandate to offer varied recreation. With this comes the commensurate urban issues of anti-social behavior by a tiny minority of hotheads and perhaps an occasional deviant. This is a huge park and you tailor the police presence as you observe usage, and I believe the 84th will do that once it has the staff to strategically cover the Park. However, the Park will never be without incidents.

    Brooklyn Heights surely is not an “entitled” neighborhood with entitled people. That is nonsense. However, and particularly in the North Heights, the neighborhood is a gateway.to the Park and the police have to increase their presence there. When that behemoth Taj Mahal for the wealthy is populated along with a hotel, traffic along Old Fulton will bring added noise, pollution and danger to pedestrians. As it is now, the connection between DUMBO and the North Heights is treacherous. I am afraid that accidents involving autos, pedestrians and cyclists are on the horizon; this issue requires a more in-tuned DOT. Speed bumps need placement around PS 8 and on Poplar Street before something hideous happens.

    Whether or not the Heights experiences an increase in human or property crime, only time will tell. But, it is the gateway to the Park, and the police should take note now, observe the high usage areas, and then deploy with effectiveness.

  • StoptheChop

    But as it is, both the BBPC and the NYPD totally refuse to enforce the no standing and no stopping zones along Old Fulton, Furman and Piers 5/6 frontage road. No pissing off the tourists who have to take their pictures of Manhattan! No working with people dropping off/picking up (since the park layout failed to include pick up/drop off areas, and since the BBPC has point blank refused to create then now by eliminating some of their landscaping). I, too, wonder how they will handle the traffic impacts when Pierhouse is finished, since they won’t do anything about them now.

  • peterbrooklyn

    If the basketball courts get repurposed, the problem almost certainly goes away.

  • slick

    I’ve seen them. I was illegally parked for 5 minutes, and I came back to one writing me a ticket.

  • ppgrayson

    I have been a resident for almost thirty years. I love Brooklyn Heights. last year was the true turnover for brooklyn heights here is why. our mayor decided we should have viewing of the 4th of July fireworks! thats when a certain eliment discovered the basketball courts.. and the beautiful of an untouched neiborhood. Now you have all sorts of low breeds, thugs and big mouth roudy families coming into the park and leaving the park at 10 or 11pm. My husband and I observed a group of young men walking down Henry street with their hoodies and basketball in hand shouting obsinities to a few young women walking in front of them. Just a few days ago two women with strollers headin to the train coming from the park was 1030pm just shouting and laughing at how they could hear their voice echo saying wake these white people. We sat at the wine bar and observed a thug stop a women asking for directions when clearly he was seting her up to his friend accross the street after she took much time with him to give him directions he turned and went the way she told him then he stopped waited until she was a little distance away and he turned around following her. It sad to see what has become of what was once a beautiful safe quaint neighborhood to now become little manhattan filled with tourist and thugs. I would suggest more police presence and the basket ball park and skating ring be made private. Not that is will do to much because Brooklyn Heights is now a mark for all the low breads to come to visit. very very sad….

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