Gothamist: Cops Fail to Cut Back on Williamsburg Stabbings

Ginay

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:42:08 -0500

gang initiation? heard of this kind on the bisexual site BiLoves.

WhatsTheBigDeal

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:38:30 -0500

Ah! I just had an epiphany. I think the REAL reason that there's so much animosity towards the "hipsters", the "yuppies", the "yupsters" or whatever label one chooses, is because they are all YOUNG! Of course we are envious of their youthfulness, their blissful naivete, of the endless opportunities that growing up in this highly accessible world affords them. "They are so young! They have more years on this planet than me and I'm wasting away!" It's not them. It's you, who have turned into a crabby, grouchy, complaining OLD PERSON (old, being completely relative).

WhatsTheBigDeal

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:26:52 -0500

Is any one else really tired of the "kill the hipster and/or yuppie" mentality? It's old and useless, and it fosters ill-will and negativity towards people we don't even know. I don't understand how one can compartmentalize a person into one single category and then judge him or her on the sheer fact that they live in a particular area or dress a certain way? It's like race--there is no such thing as race (in my opinion). I wonder if you all who are so biased against "hipsters" and "yuppies" are really that consciously angry? Isn't that just a waste of time? To be honest, it sounds like most people are merely envious of the so-called "transplants", for whatever reason. Isn't the popular crowd also the most hated? Are we in high school??? Anyways, I do understand that it is a sad thing to see one's neighborhood change and the people in it change. But there's not a major city in the world that isn't constantly changing. I hate to say it, New York, but you are not that special.

safetybear

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:03:44 -0500

Thanks. Good to know one psychotic bike-riding stabber is off the streets. I think what I saw near Greenpoint/McCarren the other night was a run-of-the-mill mugger. Maybe. Lady, alone, big purse. I dunno. Meanwhile the machete-wielding kids are still at large in the "south" streets of Williamsburg. That's some old school gang styles right there.

Think twice

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:38:53 -0500

Sell the local NYCHA property and buy more security cameras.

BQE

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:00:37 -0500

#4 - @safetybear The guy was arrested at the end of June: http://gothamist.com/2008/06/25/serial_stabber_arrested_in_bikeby_s.php

virgil

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:20:10 -0500

Bongo. Yep. It is. Where. They did. Uh... Was is that are. Okay, your turn.

brooklyn and i

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:09:49 -0500

http://www.pixxiestails.com/archives/2008/07/shooting_in_williamsburg_brooklyn_7122008.html

brooklynbs

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:36:20 -0500

Two teens attacked by gang with machetes in Brooklyn - Appears to have been a Southside grudge thing.

safetybear

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:42:47 -0500

#7 - I didn't catch the race/age of the attacker last tuesday. Wondering if there have been any new info/findings on these incidents.

virgil

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:33:12 -0500

Wow, Bingo, you are one tough customer. Is it true that knives and machetes bounce off the cynical, street toughened skin of commenters like your own bad self who feel that the city's ever-shifting population should suddenly stop changing at the moment and in the manner of your choosing?

sinisterteashop

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:33:41 -0500

Gang initiation? Doubtful if it's a single attacker. In an initiation members of the gang are there to witness the crime.

FutureMan83

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:42:10 -0500

safetybear 5:36pm: this wouldn't happen to be a heavy-set black "kid" wearing a blue-ish shirt, would it? because i was followed by a man matching this description down some streets near mccarren park when the L train wasn't running past Lorimer last week. i managed to find a group of people walking and stay close enough to feel safe, but i was definitely being followed.

sarahlucy

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:23:43 -0500

who'd have thought i'd feel safer living in bedstuy over williamsburg? this is scaaary shit. clearly whoever's doing this has a lot of balls to be attempting shit with so many people around. i'm gonna have machete-focused nightmares!

ides_of_march

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:37:35 -0500

Gang initiation?

safetybear

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:36:49 -0500

#3 - When was the Greenpoint guy arrested? I witnessed an attempted stabbing near McCarren Park just last Tuesday 7/8 at around midnight. I was waiting for the bus outside of Matchless (Manhattan & Driggs), with a lot of people around, walking, smoking outside, etc. I hear a scream, there's a woman standing about 50 feet away, and a heavyset guy with a dark hoodie running away, real fast down the street, and away from the scene. The woman seemed okay, until she walked past us trembling and saying that the guy had threatened her with a huge knife. I think she called the cops because they were buzzing around the area shortly after the incident. Someone would have to be nuts to pull that shit with so many people around. Right about now... Not feeling too cool walking on empty streets in W-Burg (or Greenpoint. or Queens.) (The target was a 30-something white woman walking alone and carrying a large purse. Purse wasn't taken. She wasn't a hipster, thanks.)

BQE

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:06:40 -0500

The one on Fillmore & Driggs was by a guy on a bike. There was a similar stabbing by a guy on a bike in LIC, for which a mentally ill guy who lived in Greenpoint was arrested. Its not outside reason to assume he was the guy behind the one on Fillmore as well.

brandonz

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:37:05 -0500

Do a little reasearch on neighborhoods, please. There isn't a neighborhood called "South Williamsburg" The three stabbings last night happened on the "Southside"/"South Side". Fillmore & Driggs is the "Northside"/"North Side", as is, obviously, the one on North 1st in April. There is an "East Williamsburg", which is arguably a separate neighborhood and not actually a subset of Williamsburg, depending on what authority or agency you are talking to. North of Flushing, east of Humboldt. If anything is "South Williamsburg" (not sure if this is any sort of official term anyone uses though) it'd be the Hasidic core south of Division Ave.

breaknight

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:07:40 -0500

This is performance art. Its probably some white hipster protesting gentrification of "his" neighborhood by stabbing people.