Gothamist: Taxi Cab Driver Shot in the Face

NannyState

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:51:56 -0500

Shades of the late eighties/early nineties. This is such a bad omen.

dadoc

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:38:21 -0500

Awaiting descrip of the sought indivs. Not in any of the links. All the best to the working hack, lets see the "pictures" that are being reviewed. Enlist the public's help in solving a crime. And, w/ NYC having the toughest gun laws in the country, tougher laws would do squat. They shot some poor working dude in the face over an unpaid Taxi ride. They care about laws?

trotskie

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:01:03 -0500

Correcting your analogy bh, Flatbush Ave. is Brooklyn's Woodward Ave. 8 mile in Detroit is a east/west line of demarcation intersecting Woodward. Head south of 8 mile on Woodward you head towards inner city. Drive north of 8 mile, you are heading for Cranbrook. You probably should have gone with "Nostrand Ave. is Brooklyn's 8 mile". Good try though.

babyhitler

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:38:06 -0500

flatbush Avenue is Brooklyn's "8 Mile". To the northeast is East New York, the worst part of NY and the Southwest is where all the yuppies and hipsters breed. Pick your poison.

Pull My Finger

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:24:33 -0500

Where was BINGO when this went down?

Anna_Merkin

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:27:38 -0500

Spear Chucker, it's really a shame that you even get to keep that loathsome handle. I wonder what Gothamist would say if I used a different racial slur for my handle? I shouldn't even dignify your existence by acknowledging it.

S_R

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:58:05 -0500

The intersection of Lafayette and Franklin is not covered by the 88th precinct. The 79th precinct begins on Classon. I should also add that where this happened has always been a scary corner.

RoDogg

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:20:50 -0500

How in the world did this story become about race, blacks, baby mommas, black communities and families. A cab driver (unidentified) got shot in the face by an (unidentified) person(s).... we have no idea who got shot or who did the shooting. It could have been a stray bullet from a cop's gun. This story is so incomplete with no details at all but it doesn't take that much for people to start posting ignorant comments. Maybe if white law makers would make tougher gun laws violence in this country will decline. Sad, racist only look at one side of a coin! And even before this story it was hard to get a cab in Brooklyn, this will not help but it didn't hurt neither. I wish the driver well.

Amanda Harlech

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:39:50 -0500

Fort Greene is roughly bounded by the Brooklyn Navy Yard/Nassau Street to the north, Flatbush Avenue to the west, Vanderbilt Avenue to the east and Atlantic Avenue to the south. Its main arteries are Fulton Street above St. Felix Street and DeKalb Avenue. The neighborhood is served by the New York City Subway at Dekalb Avenue (B Q), DeKalb Avenue (M N R), Atlantic Avenue–Pacific Street (D M N R); Atlantic Avenue (2 3 4 5); Atlantic Avenue (B Q); Flatbush Avenue (LIRR); or the A C train at Lafayette Avenue; and the G train at Fulton Street.

Anna_Merkin

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:39:16 -0500

I can barely get a cab from Manhattan to Fort Greene as it is, even when I'm with a white girl...and I live in the REAL Fort Greene.

rulebook

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:34:49 -0500

Nope. Too lame.

UnrepentantFenian

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:03:45 -0500

I have lost count of the number of times I have wanted to shoot some asshole cabbie in the face. But someone actually did it. Live the dream man. Live the dream. Too soon?

Snoopy

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:48:41 -0500

And to think just last week some fool who lives in Clinton Hill was telling me how safe the neighborhood has become. Granted the incident was east of Clinton Hill but not by much. Classon Avenue is the DMZ between CH and Bed Stuy with the 88th right there at the borderline.

duckert

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:12:29 -0500

Every one should band together and watch each others back and not complain about the goddamned inflated brownstones . This is NYC not Osk Cosh bloody Wisconson

JRod5417

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:42:16 -0500

Getting a cab to Brooklyn may get a little tougher.

uncommon

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:33:06 -0500

Wow, this is 4 blocks from my house, not comforting news. We need to take control of this area: Please call the local Precinct and report any crime at any time: 88 Precinct Fort Greene 298 Classon Avenue (718) 636-6511 And thanks, I know I live in Bed Stuy, don't just tell me to move or ask me why I moved here.

Phineas Gage

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:32:48 -0500

I live nearby and I can assure you that Lafayette & Franklin isn't "gentrified".

rcltrh

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:26:05 -0500

So much for gentrification. There goes more of your inflated brownstone house values.

Headzo

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:04:19 -0500

hey Channel 7. that's Bed-Stuy, not Fort Greene. not even close to Fort Greene. numbnuts