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

    Some how this does not surprise me.

  • Michael

    Let’s do this: what can be done to reduce crime, improve quality of life, change things for the better in the neighborhood? “Do nothing” is not an option.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Well, “do nothing” technically IS an option, but anyway the way things work in this town, it seems that “nothing” tends to be the outcome of activity anyway. Look at LICH. For that matter, look at the height of the Pierhouse. But as long as we’re fantasizing:

    What if a small admission ($5 a throw for age 10+? Annual membership deals offered? Partial memberships offered free with ID NYC?) was charged to enter the park? It’s a privately held development anyway, isn’t it? The park could make some pocket change, maybe to fund security personnel. Riff-raff tend to avoid paying to get into places, don’t they?

    I was going to suggest setting this up just for Pier 2 to appease Concerned and the people he’s been nominating for various public offices, but I’m pretty sure that would (at the very least) look really bad from a PR perspective and (at worst) not be a viable solution to the crime problem.

    Again, my assertion is that if we want to decrease the amount of crime we have to decrease the amount of foot traffic, period. It may be that the crime is being caused by a certain portion of that foot traffic (conventional stats say mostly adolescent, male, poorer, what else?) but until we have a way to isolate only the potential criminals and deter them (read: remove their incentive) from passing through the neighborhood, we probably, unfortunately, have to deter everyone.

  • ColumbiaHeightster

    You are reading the message that you want to hear, and grossly misrepresenting what Teresa has said.

  • Concerned

    Huh? This is her exact quote:
    “You’re right: I don’t see the uptick in crime as being as significant as you do.”
    What have I misinterpreted? She thinks the “uptick” in crime is insignificant (and BBP is a scapegoat) and she cites to prior crime in the neighborhood to support her position.

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

    “Cowardly” Ha, hardly. I am not afraid of you or anyone else, except maybe women who are 6″ taller than me. I happen to be very busy with work and preparing for a trip to Europe. I hardly have time for my real friends and family, I certanly don’t have time to meet people with whom I strongly disagree.
    However, if you still have a bee in your bonnet when I get back in August, I’ll meet you for a drink.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    “I don’t see the uptick in crime as being as significant as you do” (Teresa’s quote) does NOT mean the same thing as “the ‘uptick’ in crime is insignificant” (your characterization of her quote).

    Significance exists on a spectrum. Let’s say you think the “uptick in crime” is a 9/10 on that spectrum, maybe Teresa thinks it’s a 4/10 (for example). Doesn’t mean she thinks it’s a 0.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    *rolls eyes*

    I’ve been trying to get us all together for a drink since, what, March? I just don’t want to be the one to organize it. I think Claude should.

  • Teresa

    I appreciate your and ColumbiaHeightster’s attempts to point out the misconstruing/misrepresenting my POV, but I give up. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of room for nuance in this conversation. It is, apparently, you’re with us or against us, unfortunately.

  • Concerned

    You know, SB. You love to do this. When I wrote the sentence you responded about, I was like: “Boy, if someone wants to say these aren’t the same things, they could. But I don’t have the time to go through the entire freaking argument just because ColumbiaHeightster jumps in from left field and wants to defend Teresa. And really, my point should still be understood without getting too picky.” But here you go. I really don’t have time to argue about if I misconstrued Teresa’s argument or not and that’s what is going on now. It is frustrating. You should know I’m smart enough to understand this. So now I have to give a rebuttal to this…
    I know exactly what Teresa is saying. I think you all know what I am saying. And Teresa, let me tell you, you can keep citing to past crimes and you can keep turning a blind eye to new crime from BBP (whether it’s a 4/10 or a 8/10). I really don’t care. Your opinion is a biased one to me and I will continue to see it that way until you prove differently. Good day.

  • Concerned

    If enough people agreed with your POV, our neighborhood would be in real trouble. Thank goodness the police have listened and have really stepped up patrols. Your POV is a dangerous one. But by all means, please continue to keep posting it.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    I know you know that I know you are smart enough to understand the nuance, Concerned, which is why I was sort of surprised that you opted to misrepresent Teresa’s point of view rather than, say, tease out the difference between saying the park is a relatively huge problem and saying it’s a relatively small problem. I hope it also goes without saying that my own opinions about the park have nothing to do with this assessment.

    And as I’ve said before, as long as everyone can (1) acknowledge that some degree of unwanted crime occurs as a direct or indirect result of the presence of the park, the next step (2) is to evaluate how much crime, and then (3) to agree whether something beyond the usual obligatory measures need to be taken to address that crime, and finally, (4) what measures would be most effective, with minimal negative consequences, etc.

    Have we even reached step 1?

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Ehh, Concerned means well, and I hope that is something you can keep in mind (as I hope he can manage to do for you).

    Perhaps relative to our respective proximities to the major park throughways, or as redlola pointed out, the period and spirit in which we moved to the neighborhood, the attitudes with which we comprehend life in general, or whatever else affects how personally we take it, we all ended up with varying degrees to which we “wig out” when more park visitors equals more crime.

    (Maybe if I owned property on Joralemon I’d be more incensed, who knows? I’m used to Brooklyn looking more like Bed Stuy or Bushwick, and I don’t take the relative tranquility of Brooklyn Heights for granted but I also engender the attitude that no such situation stays constant. Not everyone has that attitude, or is required to.)

  • Michael

    How about an idea that isnt fantasizing

  • Michael

    Right.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Build a wall around Brooklyn Heights with armed guards at all checkpoints who are as great at profiling potential criminals as, say, the NYPD.

    Demolish the park and replace it with an NPR Museum where A Prairie Home Companion is played on outdoor speakers at all hours.

    File for the neighborhood to secede from Brooklyn, carve a deep trench down Cadman Plaza to Court Street and down Atlantic to the water, draft a new constitution, sail away into the sunset.

    Or, back to my admission idea…

  • Michael

    Entertaining, useless but entertaining.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    I do try!

    I dunno…anyone here know anything about civil engineering while simultaneously giving two Trumps about sociology? That’s our person!

  • Michael

    Cowardly.

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

    Wow, you’ve really got your panties in an uproar over this.

  • Michael

    “A 65-year-old man was walking down a street in Brooklyn Heights when he was sucker punched by another man, police said.

    The victim was walking in front of 99 Joralemon Street on the night of July 6 when he was approached by three men and one woman, surveillance video shows.”

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