Police found a 14-year-old boy with five lacerations to his face on Columbus Avenue Saturday after he was attacked by a group, an NYPD spokesman said.
As we reported on Saturday, the boy ended up on 98th and Columbus. But he was attacked in the vicinity of 93rd and Columbus between 4 and 4:30 p.m., the spokesman said. He apparently ran uptown from the scene of the attack to 98th Street where he collapsed, a witness told one of our tipsters.
Other details remain sparse. The attackers were in a group, but police did not have details on how many of them attacked the boy.
An NYPD spokesman said the main attacker was wearing dark-colored clothing, but he did not have other information, including what the others were wearing, their races or other identifying features.
A police source says the attack appears to be gang-related but did not have further details.
I have made several recent 911 calls about a horde of black teen age boys chasing other boys up Amsterdam avenue with sticks. It has seemed like 96th street is a dividing point? These kids are running in the street and swinging sticks at each other. I think we need more patrolling on this street until this issue is resolved
Based on past patterns of gang related assaults, it may have been the gang at the Wise Towers attacking a boy from the gang the Douglass Houses. The City has done nothing to protect the residents of those buildings from the gangs. It’s shameful that they allow this to continue in their buildings. Thanks, DiBlasio.
De Blasio didn’t build yuppie condos next to the projects
(1) how on earth can this be DiBlasio alone? The poverty and violence in the “projects” is of many years standing. Terrible, and people I care for live in one of those buildings and I fear for them – so I would love it if he could solve it, but it is ridiculous to blame it on him.
(2) how do the yuppie condos make this happen? If it is indeed “project” to “project” gang violence, how are the condos involved.
Once the election is finished, maybe we can all try not to let our reflexive reactions lead us to say things without thinking about whether they are true and logical.
I spoke to the cops on Saturday and one candidly told me that this was definitely a gang-related incident. Apparently, there are two gangs – one in the Frederick Douglas Houses and a rival gang on the 93rd St project/housing. Theyre constantly going out after each other and the cops just let it happen, bc theres not much else they can do.
It’s not true that there’s not much they can do. Armed police and National Guard are present at the McDonald’s on Broadway and 72nd because of after school ‘gang’ violence there and on the corner restaurant across the street, and they could just as well be stationed in this neighborhood. So the question is why aren’t they?
Seems like we ought to be demanding more from our law enforcement on this. There have been a number of incidents around 93 Street between CPW and Amsterdam Ave. in the past year. Contact CB7 and Mark Levine’s office.
Easy solution. If anyone living in a NYC housing development is involved in any type of gang related activity they should be kicked out so room can be made of upstanding citizens instead of common criminals.
What schools do these kids go to? Do you want your kids in school with 14yr old -or younger- violent gang members? Why doesnt anyone connect the dots? Or is it racist to even mention this?
……..and everyone is just dying to live on the Upper West Side! They are DYING, alright! And WHY should the police interfere?? If they do, they will be demonized, accused of ” brutality,” denounced as “racist,” or a combination of all! When police are once again given the authority to do their jobs, given support from residents, and we stop buying into the liberal claptrap that encourages the violence we are witnessing…….THEN, and only then, will the streets become safe!
Sad reply. Not true-and so not helpful.
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The feuding between the kid gangs at Frederick Douglas Houses and Wise Towers has been going on for the last couple of years and the police response has been unacceptably anemic. Perhaps one reason is that these were kids and the feuding wasn’t resulting in serious violence — rather it was stealing, fistfights, disorderly behavior, etc. Now that someone’s been slashed in the face it’s time for a far more robust police response before somebody gets killed.
The NYPD”s stretched-thin resources are devoted to anti terrorism for all the world’s special events: the marathon, the UN, Obama’s fundraising, the candidates’s election night HQs. There is nothing left over for patroling our streets to keep us safe. It is disgusting what happened to that boy. If there were cops on the beat, it wouldn’t have happened. Our taxes pay for police, but everyone else gets the benefit. Limit special events and put cops back on the beat.
I just saw a gofundme page for this young boy who got attacked. He was mistaken for a gang member and is not a gang member. He was an innocent bystander who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Be safe everyone.
And, according to the gofundme page, the people who attacked this youngster were 18-25 year old men. I understand everyones frustrations, but this was in the day, broad daylight. I can’t, for the life of me, believe that no one saw this going on. It was on the street. Is my native home still that “ignorant” to what is going on right in front of their eyes? Maybe it’s time for neighborhood watches to make a return to neighborhoods and for everyone to stop wanting police to save EVERYONE from everyone else. Years ago, neighborhood watches patrolled neighborhoods and neighbors watched out for each other and each others kids. If we all started doing that again,, maybe, just maybe, things would start turning around and a safer (not perfect) environment would be achieved. Just a thought, but we can all stand around pointing fingers all day and night long. Until people stand up and actually start doing something and acting on their “disgust” (my word not anyone elses) with the system, no one really has a right to complain. Be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem (and yes, complaining without action is part of the problem). There is POWER in numbers people. I’m sure there are many many more people in that neighborhood who are just as disgusted as the ones who have commented here. <3 and peace and blessings.