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Yesterday at 2:30 p.m., two women leaving an apartment building on St. Nicholas Avenue near West 113th Street were shot when they were caught in the crossfire. The Daily News reports that investigators think two shooters "firing at each other" across St. Nicholas; Donna Davis, who was hit in the buttocks, said they ran and hid between parked cars (her sister-in-law was hit in the neck). One neighbor told WABC 7, "We've had a couple of shootings in the past few months, but they've all been in the middle of the night. But middle of the day on a Sunday, that's something different." Another said to the News, "I get nervous sitting outside. I guess if I am walking, at least I am moving."
Broad Daylight Shooting Shocks Harlem Neighborhood
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to the hipsters—please explain to me why gentrification is bad...
Must have been one of those thuggish gentrifiers lashing out at someone dinging their smartcar.
edEx: Man, your urban policy expertise is transcendent. I will write you in as my vote for mayor.
edEx's platform: "There may be 3 million blacks in New York, but there's enough room on Riker's for all of 'em!"
Amen brotha...when do we start?
The nabe is still home to gangsters and thugs looking to settle their scores on the street. Too many young people with no purpose and no future hang out on the corners all day and all night. And some knucklehead sees no problem with emptying a clip on a Sunday afternoon. This may be the final straw that leads to a real crackdown on this crap.
There are kids and seniors here as well as new condo hipsters. The street where this happened is choked every Sunday with double-parkers from several nearby churches. A sidewalk barbecue stand at the other end of 133th street kept grilling as this shooting happend and never missed a customer. We head these shots out our window and we have heard gunfire before, but this is our home and we are working as a community to improve it.
Gentrification is bad because once a neighborhood is full of wealthy white people, the poor people can't afford to live there anymore.
Poor people are scary and interesting, wealthy people are boring and safe.
Of course, the safety that comes with gentrification allows for things like pillow fights and water pistol fights and kickball games in the park, lets groups like improveverywhere to do stunts, effectively enabling the current crop of hipsters to exist.
Pre-gentrification, annoying unemployed trustfunders with ironic clothes and a sense of entitlement to act like 10 year olds would be beaten, probably by gangs of actual 10 year olds with the street sense to know that's what justice requires.
Hipsters against gentrification are merely expressing self-loathing, longing for the days when someone would notice them and care enough to administer the ass-whupping they deserve and secretly crave.
Shush, Al's in Denver. Clearly, everyone in Harlem who has a low income is a thug. That's the implication, right? You guys are intellectually lazy.
I took some pix of the post-shooting scene and will present my own CSI interpretation tomorrow.
http://harlemhybrid.blogspot.com
J
Slow down that gentrification-let off a clip!
#5 for Mayor!
@eyekantspel
"Poor people are scary and interesting, wealthy people are boring and safe."
That's only because you've never been in wealthy people's bedroom when they're doing the deed with their mistress, wife or whatever....it's scary and interesting.
I believe we could reduce these accidental shootings by at least 87% if the city gave the brothas free sniper scopes and some basic shooting range practice.
OK, posted pix and descriptions. Let me know what you think...
http://harlemhybrid.blogspot.com