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

    Sadly, it’s really true…

  • Michael

    Hmm, so ‘FTR’ what would the ‘assessment of your cognitive abilities to referring to someone in a discussion as an ‘a**hat” or an ‘idiot (a term once used for a mentally handicapped person – less fortunate, indeed)? I sense it may not be the height of erudition. But regardless, I have an idea. Let’s plan to meet to discuss this further. I can pick place and time and we can discuss.

  • petercow

    LOLZ

  • petercow

    If by “being on top of the situation”, you mean finally responding to the reality of BBP, after (literally), years of warnings..yeah.. “bravo”!

  • CHASESGILBERT

    God, are you naive.

  • Bornhere

    Arch — I haven’t seen the likes of Nelson OR Bernie and Charlotte in decades, really. And to suggest that the way “Brooklyn Heights treated our homeless” was consistently with the Atkins’ approach is not true: all three involved were exceptional, on so many levels. (I also find “our” to be so oddly possessive.) And, although I was friends with Bernie and Charlotte, I never got the sense that, as extraordinary as they were, they (or anyone else here) were representative of an “us.”

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

    NOT

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

    “I haven’t seen the likes of Nelson OR Bernie and Charlotte in decades, really”
    Neither have I. However, I no longer spend any time hanging out on the street, thus I don’t personally know any of the local homeless population. So I cannot say how extraordinary they are or aren’t. Do you know any of them now?

    “I also find “our” to be so oddly possessive” Wasn’t meant that way, only as in the sense of their being a part of the neighborhood.

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

    “A term once used for a mentally handicapped person”
    Yes I know, that’s why I used it.
    Sure, I’ll meet you on the corner of Scott Ave. and Townsend St., say 4 am?

  • Concerned

    Is that where the Sharks and the Jets used to rumble? That looks like a pretty tough spot. Arch, you should write a book about the hard days of Brooklyn with its own map and stories at each location. I would totally buy it.

  • Michael

    Hmmm, suspiciously inconvenient. Nothing to fear, Arch. Lets say Tuesday at the Ale house at 7pm

  • Concerned

    StudioBrooklyn will be there. Steer clear of his camera, though. If you appear to be mundane and look as though no one will have any interest in you, he will surely take your picture and put it up on this blog. LOL!!!!

  • Concerned

    YO!!!! No need to be a jerk, Chase and Peter. I don’t see MaryT saying posting signage is the ONLY good idea. In fact, she states “there are good ideas here” in reference to others’ ideas in the blog. She’s trying to help.
    Moreover, I don’t think it’s a bad idea. The sign could say something like “Welcome to Brooklyn Heights. We don’t tolerate scum.”

  • CHASESGILBERT

    Suggesting that criminals who are deliberately coming to Brooklyn Heights to commit crime will stop and read a sign is a laugh. Even funnier is the idea that they’ll read the rules and immediately comply. They’re criminals. They literally break rules for a living.

  • Concerned

    Nevertheless, you can be polite about it. Here, try this:
    “Suggesting that criminals who are deliberately coming to Brooklyn Heights to commit crime will stop and read a sign is not an idea I believe will be effective. They’re criminals. They literally break rules for a living. PS: visit my website vintage millionaire.
    Sincerely,
    Chase”

  • CHASESGILBERT

    Lol, fair enough.

  • Concerned

    Good man.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    I’ll be there if you’re buying the drinks. Otherwise I’ll go take candid photos elsewhere thank you very much.

  • redlola

    so sad that we are being advised against using our phones at what are reasonable hours.

  • redlola

    i don’t want to pay extra. i want the police to make their presence felt so that people coming here don’t feel so comfortable victimizing us. i also need our neighbors to stop making excuses for this BS.

  • redlola

    Shocking…well maybe just to Studio Brooklyn…

  • redlola

    you appetite for denial is surreal.

  • redlola

    neighbors is an interesting way of putting it.

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

    Well it’s convenient for me, Sorry can’t do 7pm, working.

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

    And accurate!

  • redlola

    we may need to disagree on that one.

  • redlola

    i wonder how many caring ppl on this thread have actually walked up and spoken to these homeless people, asked them their situation or tried to connect them with resources. sadly, for some, their concern ends after checking the “good person” box by vilifying anyone who even suggests a desire for practical alternatives to someone who hasn’t showered in years and may be mentally ill splayed out in the clark street train station. wonder how many of these kind souls have invited their “less fortunate” neighbors into their homes for a meal and a hot shower.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Please explain two things, redlola:

    1. How the idea that, within a cross-section of a given population (say, Kings County) there exists a statistical percentage who are likely to commit crime, betrays an “appetite for denial”.

    2. How it is that even though you’re presumably an adult, and as you claim, a big fancy lawyer, you still find the compulsion and the time to return to a neighborhood website to harass one (or more) of your neighbors with ad hominem remarks? Is this how you talk to people face to face? What’s wrong? We’re here to help.

  • Michael

    well put.

  • Michael

    The neighborhood has the choice to be passive or active about this. I vote active.

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