The Sun Network, an organization that sends out safety alerts to schools on the Upper East and Upper West Sides, sent out a bulletin today that a member of a gang at the Douglass Houses between 100th and 104th street on Columbus Avenue was arrested on a slew of drug and firearm charges.
“On Tuesday, May 7th, 2014, police arrested a top member of the CAG crew, aka Columbus Avenue Gunnas, at Douglas Houses located between 100th and 104th Streets on Columbus Avenue in Manhattan.
24th Precinct Sergeant Christopher Masterson and Police Officer Frank Laguidara made the arrest in cooperation with the Narcotics Division. During the arrest police seized 5 operable firearms, one capable of firing 50 rounds of ammunition, crack cocaine, marijuana and $6,000 cash (corrected from preliminary report of $1,000 in cash).”
We are still attempting to get more detailed information from NYPD.
There has recently been an uptick in gang activity between young men at the Douglass Houses and the Wise Towers on 91st.
Welcome to the Tea Party, bleeding heart leftists. Stop the incentivization of gangsterism via trumped up Drug War era profits in our continuing anti-nuclear (anti-Atomic Age), anti-capitalist, anti-fair shake for whites and Asians in college admissions, anti-fiscally conservative, anti-race realism, anti-junk science skepticism, anti-crafts show, anti-“cabaret license” ability to *dance* in bars, grossly anti-Semitic and pro-clitorectimy, anti-classical, anti-rational, cultish feel-good era of busy-body activism.
Finally be normal again, instead of *proudly* neurotic. Stop overlapping Welfare City with the Island of Man. It’s cruel to entrap lowly folk in ugly towers where there is no local community for them to casually afford because their hood is a rich neighborhood. Start, just start, to get things right, instead of terribly wrong. No, climate change isn’t the issue of our day, nor is being gay, it’s the Drug War, and climate *alarm*, and surging antibiotic resistance that renders all hospitals toxic, these decadent foibles are rapidly becoming genocidal to us all.
Someone forgot to take their meds. The war on drugs is a joke and when has it ever been tied to the left? Relating climate change to some second-rate drug dealer is some next-level teabagger trolling. Nice work.
if found to be residents,these scumbags and their famililies should be evicted…no ifs ands or buts
i don’t have any problem with evicting convicted drug dealers from NYCHA apartments, and believe that is the NYCHA policy. who could srgue otherwise? But their families? their mothers and grandmothers? or what if they have an estranged wife and children? let’s think before we espouse, please.
It would be nice if we can have an open and honest conversation about the NYCHA projects.
How other cities like Chicago have torn them down, replaced them with mixed income, mix of high, mid and low rise, adding retail and commercial use, not warehousing the poor and disenfranchised, and returning the street grid.
We can even talk about replacing the parking lots (every NYCHA project in Manhattan has outdoor lots) with new mixed housing.
Agreed. Under Bloomberg the City had a great plan to lease NYCHA land to developers, which would have shored up the areas around housing projects, and put a good deal money into NYCHA coffers – which in turn would help the projects themselves. De Blasio abandoned this plan, of course.
Seem that only young men of color and very rich white men have guns in NYC. Bloomy…How many armed guards do you have-you phoney?
umm yeah he is not the Mayor anymore.
he is a private citizen, not sure how many guns he has , but have not heard about ol’ Bloomy and a drive by. Just saying’
libtards have to find another punching bag.
Strikes me as unkind and unproductive, calling names based on political perceptions. The debate is worth having and part of the beauty of America is that we get to have it, but I don’t understand who you persuade by hurling invective like “libtard” – this is doubly offensive, really come on. WestSideRag, to me this is offensive. Shame, webot – if you had a point I’d love to hear it, but you lose when you use a mean-spirited slur.
Fair enough DMH.
I will cease name calling – which is done in frustration against the – often times extreme liberal contingency – that name calls against the easy targets of: Landlord, Mr. Bloomberg, Wall Street (New York’s by far largest tax base which provides most of the income for the city).
For example – Naro below calls Bloomberg a phony – even though we are not talking about him and this is about NYCHA not gun control.
Mr. Bloomberg was arguably the most progressive (in the true sense of the word) Mayor the city has had.
Not beholden to any special interests he did what he thought was right regardless of politics as usual (agree with him nor not, I sure didn’t always agree – hello Nanny state).
He used his own money (and he didn’t inherit it) for the causes he believed in including Naro – Gun Control.
He also wrote a check for $100 MM to help young men of color break the cycle of crime and poverty. He is created parks and plazas, bicycle programs, stood up to the unions, encouraged much needed housing and businesses to grow.
You didn’t like him, fine. Just know many people did. and he is now not Mayor. so the name calling should stop.
Thanks Webot!
I like BDB (and Bloomberg, mostly – go figure) but I agree with you 100% on the NYCHA parking lots. Why on earth are these surface parking lots subsidized?
Also weird that NYCHA has to pay I think $100 million a year to NYPD instead of that money coming from the overall city budget. But from the info here it sounds like NYPD did a great job.
this “honest conversation” about NYCHA Public housing seems to me to be crass — and tin-eared — advocacy for tearing them down.
NYCHA houses over 400,000 NYers in public housing projects. This represents a cornerstone of the affordable housing for low income and working poor people in NYC, as well as a substantial number of our seniors and children.
in our community (UWS), we have many public housing projects, ranging from Amsterdam Houses on Amsterdam circa 64th to Grant Houses on 125th on Broadway. some of the comments above reflect little understanding of what this housing — these communities — represent. the residents of these buildings go to our schools, go to our senior centers and our churches, are leading members of our political clubs, sit on the community board, and much mouch more.
while the NYCHA projects are not perfect — they need more police protection, often repairs on not made in a timely manner, etc — they are far from “warehousing the poor.” there are long waiting lists to get in. NYC Public Housing was the first public housing in the US and has by and large an excellent reputation. Ask the people who live there if they want their communities “torn down.”
do the people in these communities matter? i think they do.
by the way, Chicago has tens of thousands of units of public housing today. Some projects were torn down but many remain and are quite vibrant.
Bruce, What do you think shoud be done to address the social dynamic within these NYCHA communties that allows young gang members to congregate and persist without getting reported, or disciplined, from within the development.
It appears that beyond the economic issues plaguing these communities, there are social and moral issue that create an “Us against the world” dynamic, and an overall lack of respect for civility.
NYC has the richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor. It is commonly said you can get the best and the worst of everything here, but NYC shouldn’t settle for worst when it comes to the poorest. I don’t favor the current housing projects, but we can’t kick everybody out either. We need to drive home the point that NYC owns these properties and will not house gang members, drug dealers, or unstable citizens, and we need to do this by making quick and clear examples of those that do by creating the incentive for other residents to speak up. “My neighbors have a child and he carries a gun” “They sell drugs in the foyer of my building”
Pay the people to snitch, and clean up the problem pockets. I am sure the problem causers are only a small portion of the population, but the greater population enables this behavior, and that is the biggest problem of all.
100% true.
thanks
100% true UWsider
thanks
UWSider said:
“I am sure the problem causers are only a small portion of the population, but the greater population enables this behavior, and that is the biggest problem of all.”
This is absolute malarkey, and certainly so for Frederick Douglass Houses. You obviously know nothing about that community. it’s sad that such misconceptions can grow. there is an active tenants association, patrols, coordination with police, and on and on.
they probably need more community policing. but let’s not invent fantasies about “enabling.” go do a little investigation.
I’m so glad there are finally some commenters with a brain here. Meaning non-leftists.
Love that everyone keeps mentioning Chicago as some sort of ghetto-model: you are hilarious. Yes, let’s be more like Chicago- dozens of murders each weekend by what you call “young men of color with guns”. They are criminals and thugs. Get these assholes off welfare, out of near-free housing, render harsh punishments for crimes. Those of you stupid enough to have voted for De Blasio will get your wish to be more like Chicago.
“Dozens of murders each weekend”… hahahahaha
BdB has made it so easy for people to commit crimes here. By changing the sentencing guidelines in NYC, he is going to send us back to the stone ages!
thanks Mike. with all the yahoos yahoo-ing, it’s hard to know what is sarcastic!
not to interrupt this right wing whine-fest… but what do you mean, “changing the sentencing guidelines in NYC.” The Mayor has no control over DAs, prosecutors, or judges. What are you referring to? (if anything).
It was a tongue in cheek response to the yahoo above.
the “open and honest conversation” was an invitation for everyone in the city and neighborhood , except for one.
that one that of course has to reply with “bleeding heart leftists” agenda.
yet again.
I wonder if he was stopped-&-frisked, leading to his arrest?
Tear them down!! They are a blight on the city.
If NYCHA followed the rules alot of people would be gone but instead NYCHA favors some tenants over others that’s why u got so many people living in 3 bedroom apartments with just one person and a Dog and alot of these tenants have kids who are old and still return to the projects with their bad Habits and NYCHA still let’s the parents keep these apartments even though their family composite has changed. Ridiculous