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The Post reports that crime along the "club row" of West 27th Street has jumped since last year. With the bouncer shooting club patrons incident on West 22nd Street in May and last week's murder of a NJ teen who had been clubbing on West 27th, there's a lot of attention on the nightlife ways of Chelsea. In July alone, there was a 58% increase in assaults inside or right outside clubs, and 200 summons have been issued for "public drinking" and "disorderly conduct." (Question, is public drinking also taking a drink out of a bar/club and walking down the street?) One new way police are monitoring club activity is with a sting. From the NY Post:
Since Jan. 1, cops in the 10th Precinct have engaged in 15 undercover operations using a 19-year-old police cadet accompanied by an older cop to determine if the clubs were serving minors.That's so 21 Jump Street!They visited clubs 57 times and issued 24 violations.
Last Friday at Spirit, a bartender served the cadet a bottle of Corona, not bothering to check the valid driver's license she was carrying, which showed her age to be only 19. Right after that, the cadet was turned down at Crobar, where a bartender asked for her ID, saw she was underage, and had security escort her out.
You can see stats for the 10th Precinct here (PDF). The increase in crime has been partially attributed to the fact there's simply more activity in the neighborhood, but alcohol is a factor as well.
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I refuse to go to Chelsea these days. In addition to all these murders and shootings, my best friend had his skull fractured by a bouncer there recently, for pretty much no reason.
As a resident of Weehawken and a native NYer --born in Chelsea-- I would like to apologize to Jennifer Moore's family & friends on behalf of all the people who let her down the night she died: The Chelsea bar (Guest House) who somehow served this girl alcohol, the bouncers who let her in, the impound staff who let her walk away drunk, the taxi driver who picked up the drunken Jennifer and her killer (and this person still has not come forward), the Weehawken hotel staff who watched her get carried in, the residents of the hotel who must have heard something amiss but did nothing, and any West New York residents who watched the killer throw her body in the dumpsters... they should all be ashamed of themselves for not trying to do more.
No one--not even a naive young girl who made mistakes like Jennifer did-- deserved to die this way.
What exactly ARE the "public drinking" laws? Bagged 40's seem to be fairly regular all over the city...do the cops just don't like it when you take an actual cocktail glass out for a jaunt?
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Drink alcohol on the street I think is illegal even in a bag. But check out the LIRR on a friday nite where high school kids bring cases of beer on the train and are falling down before they reach manhattan. Chelsea born and bred.... too raised my kids here.
chelsea's a hot bed of something, alright, hot bed of gay dudes.
spanky, are you speaking from experience?