Gothamist: Williamsburg Stabber Strikes Again

flower face

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:17:40 -0500

Now he stabbed a woman in Queens http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6222094 http://www.nypost.com/seven/06232008/news/regionalnews/woman_critical_after_cycle_by_stabbing_116835.htm

flower face

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:43:10 -0500

The guy who got stabbed was a life long resident of the neighborhood, in his fifties, not a hipster.

dkim2015

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:38:40 -0500

LOLz! must b a middl sk00l g4ng if th3y pr3y 0n hipst3rz. r0fl! I gu3ss th3y will w0rk 0n up t0 t00ristz wh3n th3y g3t 0ld3r! H4ppy huntinzz!

rakelblujeans

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:52:07 -0500

Eff gangs. I hope the hipsters drive them out.

JenChungsBra

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:42:53 -0500

If it's so freaking dangerous to commit violent crimes in Texas then why do big cities like Dallas and Houston have much higher crime rates than New York?

france66

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:22:15 -0500

Okay I get it a bunch of middle to upper class 'transplants' moved into your neighborhood and made the rents skyrocket and you feel they have taken away a neighborhood that belongs to you and yours. HOWEVER this does not give anyone the right to STAB or HARM the newcomers...come to think of it weren't you or your parents/grandparents new to this neighborhood at some point? Change is inevitable, but what we need to do is figure out a way to live in harmony. Sorry to sound like a hippie

HowBoutDemCowboys

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:56:45 -0500

#16, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. You really believe that if everyone carried a gun that everyone would end up dead? Really? There are guns (and other, more powerful weapons) all over this planet, and yet there are 6 billion people still here. You should really think before making an inane statement like that.

esquared

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:53:52 -0500

Probably a hedge fund manager or a Carrie Bradshaw wannabe -- they're notorious for backstabbing.

mrmagoo

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:38:59 -0500

tavarua you're right. i live on s3rd too and as soon as the kids get out of school everything gets so much worse. i cant even count the number of times ive been called a faggot on my block, prob more so then when i was in high school. so what, now its only a matter of time till i get stabbed? wonderful. also with two fu*king cops on every corner how is this sh*t still happening?

PinkoCommie

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:17:07 -0500

Did it ever occur to you people that not just hipsters live in this neighborhood? and regardless of anyone's intention for moving here its obsurd that someone is attacked for being a hipster. They want money and they act without rationality. the end. If anyone was confused about how safe williamsburg is in comparison to other neighborhoods this crime spree is a good wake up call. Doesn't matter the level of gentrification, if a criminal wants to venture into your neighborhood they arent going to be so selective as to look for skinny jeans. Last time I checked being mugged sucks for everyone. try being a woman at night in this city. sure there are services offered but its an inconvenience that human beings cant respect women enough not to target them.

greeen

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:14:59 -0500

10-- everybody will end up dead if anyone can legally carry a gun. If the cops did their jobs these things could be prevented. I see cops standing around Bedford and N7th in the middle of the day, then nowhere to be found in the wee hours when people actually need them.

gossipgirl

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:58:23 -0500

I didn't know hipsters went to the gym.

ilovejapgirls

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:14:15 -0500

it's probably the hispanics that want the hipsters out of their hood, i mean these hipsters are totaling making brooklyn a bad place to live

3G

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:44:13 -0500

Jack the Hipster?

sonyactivision

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:56:14 -0500

The East River will stop him: you know how everybody in Williamsburg is into Stabbing Westward.

or1

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:36:35 -0500

If you are in Williamsburg on Friday nights, the volunteer-run Safe Walk will walk you to your destination on Friday nights from 11 pm to 2 am Saturday. You do not need to feel threatened to call for a Safe Walk, but why chance it? Safe Walk is a program of RightRides for Women's Safety, is available for anyone (yeah, guys too!) and is also available in Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, Fort Greene and Greenpoint. More information, including the dispatch number is here

TSOL

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:22:38 -0500

Too bad New York opted out of the Constitution and outawed private ownership of guns! Then again, the hipsters getting assaulted are just the ones to despise places like Texas, where a guy with a knife would wind up getting ventilated by his intended victim if not several bystanders...

rtd2101

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:12:34 -0500

If Filmore is such a problem, why not put a cop car on the corner in the evenings. Oh, right, b/c that would be too easy and make too much sense. And it would actually require cops to do something other than loaf.

rcltrh

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:25:56 -0500

The neighborhood was sh*t 5-7 years ago with gang activity, assaults, and robberies everywhere you turned, especially around 9th, Roebling, and Driggs areas. I see the gritty side of the Burg is taking back its own. No surprise here. No million dollar condos can change the mindset of hoodlums and thugs - which the Burg is famous for. I feel sorry for people who bought into the Williamsburg gentrification hype. Enjoy your million dollar living during the middle of the day - as long as you walk in groups - but stay in your million dollar prison the other 18 hours every day and make sure you keep the alarms set and doors locked.

tavarua

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:13:06 -0500

I got jumped at fillmore place in jan. and live on south 3rd. This is really not cool, and really makes me nervous. The neighborhood is going to shit! How about some Gang rehabilitation officers or something...all hell will break loose when the kids get out of school.

rakelblujeans

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:03:22 -0500

That _literally_ happened outside my window, got interviewed by the detectives and everything later that day. The camera were from my house, and we severely regret not having them turned on. They have been off for months now, but I think that's gonna change _real_ soon.

Rocknrope

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:26:32 -0500

Lucky guy, but I don't know how many times I've read of a wound that was "millimeters away from a major organ" or "another 3 centimeters to the left and he would be dead." One has to wonder if there's some embellishment going on by the journalists or the attending.

kittencrunchies

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:14:06 -0500

Hipsters or no hipsters, I live a few blocks away from this and I'm sort of terrified. I'd rather it if neither hip or unhip demographics got stabbed in the chest.

slappy

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:58:57 -0500

Hipsters Schmipsters. What a bunch of dumbass xenophobes.

HowBoutDemCowboys

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:51:03 -0500

#1, No. I think the attacker was a hipster. You know how violent all of those people in skinny jeans can be when their bandanas aren't properly adorning their bodies.

csk

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:39:20 -0500

was it a bias attack (on a hipster)?