Four Recent Robberies in the Heights: 84th Precinct Asks Residents to Take Precautions

By on July 1, 2016 3:43 pm in 84th Precinct, Brooklyn Heights, crime, News

This just in from Brooklyn Heights Association alerts:

Be Aware and Remain Safe!

The 84th Precinct notified the BHA today that four crimes have been committed in the Heights since the second week of June. Cell phones were taken in two incidents, a purse stolen in a third, and last night the victim resisted and was slashed. These crimes have occurred on Henry Street between Montague and Clark Streets and on Hicks Street near Love Lane, all between 7:30 PM and 11:15 PM. The police believe the same perpetrator – and in one incident, two persons – is involved and has been using the Clark Street station. The police are asking Heights residents to take reasonable precautions: refrain from using your cell phone at night on the street, be aware of your surroundings, and if possible, walk with others. Extra police details – both uniformed and plain clothed – have been assigned to streets in the north Heights and to the Clark Street station.

Exercise situational awareness!

Be safe everyone; that text can wait, whether you’re walking or driving.

 

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  • Concerned

    Scum predators. Get a job.

  • Michael

    This neighborhood needs to fight back. Now. And in addition, how can we humanely get the homeless people out of this neighborhood.

  • Jorale-man

    I’ve noticed an NYPD mini-patrol car stationed at Joralemon & Henry on recent afternoons. Should be interesting to see how the holiday weekend goes (usually a high point for crime in NYC).

  • ColumbiaHeightster

    Humanly get the homeless people out of this neighborhood? These are people, not feral cats.

  • Michael

    ‘Humanely’ – it wasn’t meant to dehumanize them. OK, so how do we move these people out of the neighborhood?

  • Concerned

    Let’s stick to the topic of crime. The homeless I see are not the ones causing the crime.

  • Concerned

    Well, I’m pretty sure it’s either the residents of the mansion house or one pierrepont who are causing this crime. I see them walking up from their buildings, looking for a chump who unsuspectingly wandered into our neighborhood.

  • Rick

    Last night (Thursday) I glanced at the clock and it was 11:10PM. Seconds later I heard what sounded like a drunk guy yelling on the street below our apartment, by Hicks and Love Lane. Not an uncommon occurrence on a summer night.

    But something made me go to the window, and I heard him yelling that he’d been robbed. Before I could call the police I heard someone in another building talking to him. The man on the street said he’d been cut. The guy in the building said police and EMS were on their way. It was hard to hear, but the man who was robbed said something about guys coming out of a doorway and that they had a boxcutter.

    Suddenly an unmarked police car with siren and lights on pulled up by Love Lane, and a plainclothes officer jumped out. The man who’d been robbed and attacked talked to him for a few moments and then they both got into the car and sped off. I assume to look for the perps. I also have to hope that meant he wasn’t hurt badly, if they were giving chase. No medical attention was given to the victim, and he hadn’t sounded hurt, just angry, as he kept yelling about what had happened to him.

    I hope they caught the perpetrator, but from the warning in this article it sounds like they didn’t.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    Why don’t you buy them all condos in Williamsburg?

  • CHASESGILBERT

    Yes, because we all love having more and more homeless people living in the neighborhood, right?

  • ColumbiaHeightster

    Why? Do you have a better neighborhood in mind?

  • Mary Kim

    Thank you for that info. Good to know the victim wasn’t seriously hurt. That must have been the one Hicks St. incident and the rest were on Henry St. There was a uniformed officer stationed right outside the Clark St. station tonight. Kudos to the 84th for being on top of the situation.

  • Michael

    So, I asked about dealing with the homeless problem in this neighborhood and I got:
    “…These are people, not feral cats.” Yes they are people, but not a helpful response.
    “Why don’t you buy them all condos in Williamsburg?” Less helpful. But plenty snarky.
    “The homeless I see are not the ones causing the crime.” Arguably incorrect – A homeless person exposing himself in the Clark street station recently, technically a crime.
    “Why? Do you have a better neighborhood in mind?” Honestly don’t know how to respond to this.

  • Concerned

    Buddy, I’m not a fan of the homeless in our neighborhood. The city and state have failed the entire community (including the homeless and mentally ill). All I’m saying is that the homeless I see around the neighborhood are not the ones causing the robberies. If you have proof of different, then show me. If not, then stick to the topic of the robberies.
    The fact of the matter is that our great and peaceful neighborhood has been overrun with lots of new traffic in the past 5 years from the BBP. The police are only now starting to adapt and many members of the community are in denial. I’m sick of it too.
    There are 20,000+ residents in Bk Heights. I’d love if every household was taxed $10.00 to $20.00 a month to pay for security on top of the police we get, or if BBP had to pay some more money to secure the neighborhood.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    The presence of homeless people doesn’t bother me at all on a personal level, though I am saddened our society cannot find better alternatives to offer them. I grew up in the Heights, there has always been a homeless population here, I got to know some of them as well, John Nelson, Kevin Cain, “Dutch” and “Jackson” were the notably more colorful characters.

  • Michael

    Concerned, that is the first actual suggestion I have gotten, thank you.

  • Michael

    For those reading this string that do consider homeless in the neighborhood a problem and don’t want to get to know them, how can we humanely move them out of the neighborhood?

  • CHASESGILBERT

    Of course it’s sad. Of course we want to help.

    But we can also find unwashed beggars sleeping on the street displeasing. Especially when several are aggressive and intrusive.

    These aren’t mutually exclusive feelings.

  • CHASESGILBERT

    Vote De Blasio out.

  • Michael

    Yep

  • CHASESGILBERT

    You want to romanticize the hobos of yesteryear 11201, go for it. You’re not the only one here.

  • AEB

    Homelessness is, as the social scientists say, a multi-determined problem. The homeless presence in BH is particularly jarring to some because it reminds them that even wealthy neighborhoods, where people believe they have “bought” themselves out of unpleasant realities, have their share of visible social ills.

    The point is not to hold the homeless at a great arm’s length, but to see them as the manifestation of social failure–and to SYMPATHIZE, a hard but necessary thing to do.

  • CHASESGILBERT

    Again, these aren’t mutually exclusive feelings. I’m displeased and compassionate simultaneously. All the social science in the world, nothing is changing.

  • AEB

    My point: they must be acknowledged as people, not merely as an unpleasant problem. Because unless their reality is taken in as other than…I believe the term Concerned used was “scum predators,” the problem will grow. (Incredible that he/she could have allowed him/herself to have posted that. Incredible!)

  • Michael

    Ok can’t they be both? And let’s not turn this into an abstracted sociology profile.

  • Michael

    This is irrelevant to the discussion.

  • AEB

    Of course they are both. Please read more carefully.

  • Michael

    I read very carefully and have not seen a suggested course of action aside from sympathizing – I have. Now what?

  • Concerned

    “You want to romanticize the hobos of yesteryear”… Lol, that’s classic. He got you there, Arch. You made it sound like these were people you invited into your home to drink and reminisce about years past…

  • AEB

    I wasn’t aware that I was required to supply a course of action. I have none. Does that disqualify my comments?

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