Photo by Allan Margolin at 7:40 p.m. on June 6 at 102nd. (yes, it’s been a very rainbow-y week)
June 7, 2012 Weather: Isolated Thunderstorms, High of 76 Degrees.
News:
Twenty-three people were arrested in a huge crack cocaine bust at the Frederick Douglass Houses, which stretches from 100th to 104th on Columbus Avenue. “The charges follow a yearlong investigation that involved over 40 sales of crack-cocaine. Police also seized one firearm during the investigation,” NYPD told us. The details are kind of astonishing:
“The New York Police Department’s Narcotics Borough Manhattan North launched the probe in response to community complaints about widespread drug dealing and violence, including shootings and robberies, at the area. Drug sales took place inside halls, stairwells, apartments and courtyards in the Douglass Houses, which is comprised of 17 buildings and houses over 4,500 residents…An additional defendant, STEVEN SMITH, was arrested on May 17th and is charged in a Special Narcotics indictment. At the time of SMITH’s arrest, police conducted a court authorized search of his apartment at 200 West 111th St., Apt. 6F. Upon entering the bedroom of the apartment, detectives saw SMITH crouching beside the bed and SMITH’s five-month-old baby boy on top of the bed. SMITH initially refused to show his hands. Ultimately SMITH acquiesced and detectives seized a loaded .45 caliber gun that was hidden between the bed frame and mattress the child had been lying on.“
Community Board 7 voted that the city needs to find a new place for Fashion Week, because the event is causing too much disruption to residents who live near Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. (DNAinfo)
A history of the Level Club on 73rd, which we’ve also written about here. (Untapped New York)
Why does this surprise everyone? The system allows for generation after generation of living on the public dole, all the while cheating the system, driving cars I could only dream about, deal drugs and flesh, crime statistics that go through the roof, and all at the taxpayers’ expense. More oversight of income, job searching, education, and even eating right (look at the obesity level of the people living there). The only way this will get better is to quit dancing around political correctness and get busy clearing these units for people that truly need them and do not abuse the system. When you are on your fourth and fifth generation of families that think this is “normal” living, the families fail as the system continues to skirt the obvious. Get out and get busy! Join society and quit being barnacles on the public’s tax dollars. It is not “normal” to live like that, and to do so generation after generation is a shame. Where is Al Sharpton in all of this?
That’s why this long-time Democrat is voting for Romney.
Quentin hit the nail on the head!! Amen!!
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Why does the city provide free housing for criminals? There should be a law that criminals should not be allowed to live in such housing located nearby expensive private housing