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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  • Michael

    Yes, I think it does. The question was ‘how can we humanely move the homeless out of the neighborhood?’

  • AEB

    Rubbish.

  • Teresa

    Where would you suggest moving them? In what neighborhoods would it be OK for them to live? Maybe we could talk to our elected officials about finding a way to offer services in the neighborhood to support people who seem to need it.

  • Michael

    I dont think it is healthy or OK for anyone to live on the street in any community including ours. Talking to the elected officials as a slow and potentially inefficient way of dealing with the problem, sadly probably the only avenue to a solution.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    What country are you living in?? Tax increases are supposed to be used to support the two-way back-scratching system between politicians, such as our mayor, and the organizations/individuals they favor with contracts and kickbacks in exchange for campaign financing. But by all means, let’s wave flags on Monday and talk of democracy.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    By the way, kudos to everyone for not using the phrase “basketball courts” so far on this whole thread! It’s so meaningful to watch this blog community grow up into Big Kids. High fives all around!

  • Rick

    I feel ambivalent about writing this, but since it is the truth, I guess it should be known.

    This afternoon I spoke with several police officers today who were patrolling our neighborhood. I told them I’d seen the victim last night, and they told me we’ll see an increased police presence.

    They then told me that the people who are committing these crimes are kids coming up from the park who don’t live in our neighborhood. They think they may be close to identifying them.

  • petercow

    In other breaking news.. the sky is blue.

  • Rick

    Well, while you might have suspected this, there had been no proof whatsoever to back that up until now. Or at least none I had heard.

    So regardless of one’s personal opinion, it could have been anybody.

    And even now, those police officers may turn out to be wrong. But they seem to have evidence we’re not privy to, so for now I consider their words to have weight.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Nothing to feel ambivalent about. A major attraction, such as a waterfront development that HS been branded a park, will mean more people. More people is going to mean more crime.

  • petercow

    So if rather than basketball courts, there was a Japanese zen meditation garden, we’d be seeing this?

    If so, there is a structure immediately to the north of the park, that I have for sale.

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

    My point is, The homeless are people that happen to live on the street, they are still your neighbors. This is how the Brooklyn Heights of yesteryear treated our homeless:
    http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/20/nyregion/homeless-and-jobless-in-life-a-heroic-figure-in-death.html

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

    The decline of this once great neighborhood is not from the condo developments, the rise in street crime or the homeless but the influx of self absorbed, soulless, asshats like YOU.

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

    You don’t know how to respond because you are an idiot.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    If your zen garden attracted the same quantity and cross-section of Brooklyn then yes, the situation would be the same.

  • Concerned

    Listen SB, don’t worry about where the money is going or how I’m getting it. My simple and patriotic plan is for the government to send the tax money directly to me and I will create a security force for our neighborhood. I haven’t decided whether to call my organization Red Water or Balliburton or maybe The Patriot Actors. Either way, if you’re against my plan, you’re un-American.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    I like “The Patriot Actors”, sounds like a traveling theatre company that adapts Shakespeare’s tragedies into the sort of thing that could be the opening bit for a Trump rally.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Could be a technical difficulty. We could troubleshoot the Disqus interface perhaps. There’s a “reply” option… ;)

  • Concerned

    Exactly. It would be similar to the drama of professional wrestling. And if we expel all criminals from the neighborhood, we will create our own villains to keep the tax money a-flowin! I do believe Trump has done some professional wrestling…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuesauNtqTU

  • CHASESGILBERT

    Yes, that’s worked amazingly over the past 50 years.

  • DIBS

    Raising taxes is always the right solution. SMH

  • DIBS

    Thanks, DeBlahsio

  • Michael

    Arch, a little mean?

  • Michael

    Yes, rubbish.

  • Michael

    OK, that is really mean.

  • Michael

    not bad, not bad at all

  • Michael

    A good step.

  • Concerned

    LOL! DIBS, you’re straight out of central casting.

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

    LOL, You call me “Mean”, when you ask for ways to rid the neighbourhood of our less fortunate neighbours simply because you find them undesirable?
    FTR “idiot” is an assessment of your cognitive abilities based on your commentary here.

  • MaryT

    Actually, there are good ideas here. I’d start with emphasizing mutual respect. Post signage (maybe through the Height’s BID) welcoming to visitors that also emphasizes respecting residents. Short list to covers basic behaviors. It claims our neighborhood for us and sets reasonable expectations for them.

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