Pier 2 Evacuated…Again

By on May 11, 2016 10:19 pm in brooklyn bridge park, crime, News

Your correspondent went to the Promenade to view an especially glorious sunset when a BHB reader pointed out to him that people were streaming along the path in Brooklyn Bridge Park below, headed to the Joralemon Street exit. Pier 2 had been shut down again. A police boat was nestled next to the pier (photo). We don’t yet know what precipitated this, but when we know more, we’ll give you an update.

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  • History Buff

    “Cops make million-dollar drug bust in Brooklyn”

    “Philip Feng, 36, of Brooklyn Heights and Victor Bae, 35, of Greenpoint were busted Wednesday with hundreds of pounds of illegal narcotics after Homeland Security tipped off local authorities that a large shipment was being transported from the West Coast to Brooklyn, police said.”

    http://nypost.com/2016/03/11/cops-make-million-dollar-drug-bust-in-brooklyn/

  • Slyone

    I hope not. I hope people can figure out what the specific problem is at the Pier 2 courts that seems to have given rise to more problems than we’ve seen at other neighborhood courts. The problems are real and they absolutely need to be addressed. But there is also good that comes from the courts; they are/have the potential to be a nice community amenity.

    I don’t know about Pier 6; haven’t been there recently. As a parent when my kids were a few years smaller, I was flummoxed by not being able to see kids on two dif sets of swings, and they always wanted to be on different sets of swings. But I dealt with it; it was also nice to have all the green . . .

  • rjg

    Your neighbor, Mr. Feng, is in criminal court tomorrow facing a 50-count indictment

    Date:May 16, 2016
    Court:Kings Supreme Court – Criminal Term
    Judge:Gubbay, J
    Part:85

  • Mary

    I was at Pier 2 today with my 5 y.o. who was in the mood for roller skating. This is the first time I saw an NYPD patrol car driving inside the park. There were also two officers stationed at the basketball courts. The courts and roller rink were packed, but everyone was having a great time.

  • Banet

    Why would Pier 6 be any worse than Pier 1? The staircases up the back of Pier 1 are thoroughly secluded.

  • peterbrooklyn

    Agree. But beyond that one bad spot, the back staircases, Pier 1 is generally OK. Pier 6 is different. For the entire length of the perimeter, you can’t “see in.” If you walk a lap around Pier 6 you’ll see what I mean. Sorry I can’t explain myself more clearly.

  • Mary

    These are all good ideas, but it is almost impossible to stop overly excited, but not actually criminal, behaviors without strategic crowd controls. When a street accesses the park, the kids will use it. If access is closed off? Probably not so much. I’d also like to hear from neighbors near the Atlantic and Fulton (also Columbia Heights, before the bridge was closed) entrances, what’s their experience.

  • Mary

    P.S. Has anyone video of the Joralemon, et.al., exiting hordes? Sent it to news outlets, BBP board, precinct captain, reps..?

  • StudioBrooklyn

    “Flaming liberal Jew” is one thing, but language like “bastard” I simply cannot abide. I will anonymously thank you to clean up that speech! :P

  • Concerned

    My apologies, I was just paraphrasing the hillbillies that revile me to the hard left wingers who revile me. Sometimes I get too much into character and go over the top. To get into character for this one, I went out and bought some chewing tobacco and was buzzing so hard that I lost control of my faculties…

  • StudioBrooklyn

    *clutches pearls* my toddler reads this!! Doesn’t yours?

    Seriously though I was just trying to make a joke about anonymous mud slinging. I’m prepared to unmask at the meet and greet.

  • mlcraryville

    Brooklyn Bridge Park Safety and Rioting:
    The Park claims it takes these rolling outbreaks seriously. So far, only the Police seem to have been put to work on it.
    But the Park is running a “public nuisance”, attracting dozens, maybe hundreds of young people who appear to lack reasonable self-control and come ready for ‘action’. Testosterone calls. Bodies respond. Conflict on these little courts is bound to happen. Taking the awful impact of these large gangs on a peaceful, small neighborhood calls for more then a PR reps cliche responses.
    Impose some rules and regulations on this chaotic and threatening scene. Now.

  • Concerned

    Right. You thought I wasn’t kidding when I said I chewed tobacco to get into character? Who do you think I am, Paul Giamatti???

  • StudioBrooklyn

    That explains the brown liquid at the bottom of your 20oz Mountain Dew bottle.

    Reminds me of that famous anecdote about Dustin Hoffman during the filming of Marathon Man.

    From IMDB: “A story circulated for a long time that Dustin Hoffman (being a “method actor”) stayed up all night to play a character who has stayed up all night. Arriving on the set, Laurence Olivier asked Hoffman why he looked the way he did. Hoffman told him, to which Olivier replied in jest, “Why not try acting? It’s much easier.” Hoffman repeatedly denied the story, and finally cleared up the matter in 2004. The torture scene was filmed early in the morning, Hoffman was going through a divorce from his first wife and was depressed, and had spent the previous two nights partying hard. Hoffman told Olivier this and his comment related to his lifestyle and not his “method” style of acting.”

  • mlcraryville

    How about starting with a reasonable closing time for the Courts? Current hours are a ridiculous 6AM to 11PM.

  • ColumbiaHeightster

    You left out the lead-in to your quotation, which reads: “According to an unverified report from a park-goer on social media…”

  • Concerned

    1) The verified report quoted after supports the “unverified” report.
    2) I linked the article for all to see.
    3) I started my quote with “…”
    So what is your point?

  • fast_walker

    My two tennis partners are black. And they don’t snatch mobile phones, they live in the heights in their multi-million $ apartments. This is not about race, it’s about class warfare. These kids assault BH population because they see the disparity, and they think we owe them. Given their circumstances, maybe they are right. The better question to ask is why in the city with such wealth, there are so many young people who feel that the only answer to a problem is violence.

  • fast_walker

    Concerned, I don’t feel bad for anyone who lives in Brooklyn Heights. However, I do feel bad for generations of young men and women just a few miles away from us who grow up in poverty with no prospects. I think we should keep the courts, just so a bunch of spoiled BH residents get a reality check once in a while and realize how damn lucky they are living in a bubble.

  • Diesel

    No mystery, the bridge was closed due to structural problems caused by a defective design. The BBPC is now suing the designer.

  • An Ordinary Citizen

    Yes, of course you are right. The people of Brooklyn Heights are bad and the young men who grow up in poverty are good. That’s so simple, I should have thought of it myself.

  • Reuel

    basketball in the city is a meritocracy. put together a squad and call NEXT. if you win, you get to stay. #takebackthestreets

  • joey_c

    the gothamist reports that “No guns or knives have been recovered in the incidents.” (http://gothamist.com/2016/05/18/brooklyn_bridge_park_pier_2.php )
    so yeah histrionics is definitely the right way to describe your reaction.

  • joey_c

    good heavens, police have been dispatched to a park? so your solution is to shut down the basketball courts? hmm, i can’t imagine why.

  • joey_c

    the police should remove the miscreants without shutting down the whole park. end of.

  • joey_c

    the police should remove the miscreants without shutting down the whole pier, let alone the whole park. end of.

  • joey_c

    i go to this park at least twice weekly for league games on pier 5 and
    have since that pier was opened. i have never seen anything like what’s
    being described here, and i’m sorry you had to see it, but observing an incident of violence is a pretty weak reason to never go to the park again. if people in a lot of other neighborhoods in brooklyn took the same approach, they would basically never leave the house. you can’t let violence cow you.

  • joey_c

    “a park with a strong police presence implies that you may be in the wrong place for that.”

    central, battery, and prospect parks always have a strong police presence in my experience. are they devoid of tranquility?

  • TeddyNYC

    Have a better solution that addresses the problem?

  • TeddyNYC

    At times, yes.

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