Gothamist: Broad Daylight Shooting Shocks Harlem Neighborhood

yojimbot

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:32:17 -0500

OK, posted pix and descriptions. Let me know what you think... http://harlemhybrid.blogspot.com

Future Taliban

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:26:48 -0500

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.

schadenfreudian mensch

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:14:18 -0500

@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.

NannyState

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:59:05 -0500

#5 for Mayor!

Rfive

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:51:18 -0500

Slow down that gentrification-let off a clip!

yojimbot

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:56:05 -0500

I took some pix of the post-shooting scene and will present my own CSI interpretation tomorrow. http://harlemhybrid.blogspot.com J

Anna_Merkin

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:33:59 -0500

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.

eyekantspel

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:32:58 -0500

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.

kencam

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:31:26 -0500

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.

breaknight

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:10:32 -0500

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?

Billiamsburg

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:09:24 -0500

Must have been one of those thuggish gentrifiers lashing out at someone dinging their smartcar.

edEx

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:53:24 -0500

to the hipsters—please explain to me why gentrification is bad...