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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  • joey_c

    i do not concur that this is a problem so extensive as to merit shutting down the courts. there have been some fights on athletic fields. this happens sometimes – have you never seen a fight erupt during heated competition? i think the clear solution is (a) having a police presence, and (b) not overreacting, which seems pretty elementary. police are dispatched to places sometimes. this does not mean the locales they’re being dispatched to have to be shut down.

    i find the “o.m.g. there’s gangs of local youths playing basketball and fighting and sometimes they walk down my street and cause a ruckus” to be a laughable overreaction from people who have lived in a relatively sheltered enclave and seem to have no idea what the rest of the borough or city is like. moreover, i think it’s quite likely that part of the reason for this outcry is the demographic characteristics of the basketball court users, which makes me even less sympathetic to residents’ complaints.

  • joey_c

    “if there was ever an optimal space for dealing drugs, it would be the recently opened Pier 6.”

    you are one paranoid individual. it’s more likely that in two years, the most common “drug” will be legal and your fears will be obviated.

    “lose the basketball courts. I’ve been saying it for two years now and have been called some pretty negative things for saying it”

    rightly so. there is not a single good reason for closing those courts, and the bad reasons are pretty ugly.

  • joey_c

    i walked through prospect park pretty extensively on friday and sunday this weekend and found some pretty tranquil spots, so i find myself wondering if you are perhaps not looking very had for tranquility.

  • TeddyNYC

    Maybe there is some level of “subconscious racism” involved here on both sides. Maybe there’s some microcosm of class warfare going on here as well, maybe more so, with some of the youth instigating, by not caring about the disturbances they cause and fear they illicit. It’s unfortunate that a small number of people continue to cause turmoil for others, occasionally instigating a mob mentality in the park, which I personally witnessed, watching a few women with their children literally run away. Maybe the only other solution would be to have 15-20 police officers at the park every day. I don’t know if there’s surveillance cameras installed all over the park, but if not, that would be an additional measure to consider, with maybe a few along Joralemon St. If you think about it, they’re all crappy remedies that just attempt to treat the continuing symptoms of the underlying/increasing inequality pervasive in this city, country and world.

  • Concerned

    Sorry Reuel. There have been reports on the blog that some players (even “gifted athletic players”) are not being allowed to call “NEXT” at the courts. There is a mob mentality down there and “calling next” won’t solve it.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Gotta say, I’m not sure we’re paying the rents we do because we expect tranquility. That’s just not why people come to live in New York City. We live here in part because we want to be all smushed together with each other and everyone who is great and everyone who is nasty and the people who pay us and the people we buy stuff from, and in part because we love to suffer and we love to look down our noses at places known for pleasant climates and humane lifestyles, where people are simple and happy. We love our corrupt, incompetent government and our embittered, hostile proletariat. Perhaps we deserve this park?

  • joey_c

    admittedly, if people wanted quiet they coulda stayed in the ‘burbs.

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