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Wire reports say that five people were just shot at 91 Hanson Place in the Fort Green neighborhood of Brooklyn. One witness described it as a "shoot-out"--this is just blocks from the Fulton Street G and Lafayette Avenue C subway stations and right by the Atlantic Center. Brownstoner hears that cops are telling people to stay inside. Fort Greene and Clinton Hill have been experiencing a spike in crime recently.
Update I: City Room reports that after chasing a victim inside, a gunman opened fire "inside a hair salon that runs from Fulton Street to Hanson Place in Fort Greene." Four people were shot and one man was pronounced dead. One victim was a off-duty police officer, a salon customer--"She was not acting in a capacity as a law enforcement officer and did not return fire."
Update II: 1010 WINS reports the salon is called De-Lux Gallery Hair Salon. The victim chased into the store was the male victim who was killed--and he was apparently armed. The off-duty police officer was hit in the leg; the three other victims' injuries are also described as non-life-threatening. The shooter is still on the loose, but the police did find his abandoned 2001 Chevy Tahoe.
Photograph from 1010 WINS
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is this the "gritty new york" people have been longing for?
Exactly...be careful what you wish for...
it's brooklyn, the mayor could care less.
unless it's developers interests.
ask if the mayor even set foot in Far Rockaway.
the NYPD will cordon off a block if they find unfired ammo.
There have been a lot of stone-throwing attacks in FG lately. Who even throws stones anymore?! I like the grittier NYC. Maybe FG will start to feel like it did when I went to HS at Tech...
haha... this morning I just an email to my cousin that the area is very safe... her daughter is thinking of going to Pratt...
Welcome to New York. Now duck, sucka!
maybe it is safe if cops live there.
Brooklyn will always be Brooklyn.
Despite the "don't snitch" era we live in, seeing as a cop was injured, they may actually get some information on these perps.
I hope Ratner tears the building down and puts up a DuaneReadeMcDonald'sStarbucks.
Heloooooo? A wicked witch was in manhattan shortly before this?
Crazy. Some kids threw a rock at me right by there a few months ago. It missed my head and hit a church window instead. Karma.
Interesting to hear this wasn't an isolated indecent.
oh lordy that's my hood. So scary and sad.
Report the stone-throwing to the precinct by phone. It will get more officer foot traffic on the block. The attacks have been happening on Carlton Avenue as the kids go from the projects on Atlantic to the projects on Myrtle.
Welcome to Obama's America.
Jacque,
Far Rockaway is Queens, not Brooklyn, duh.
Obama's America? you sir are an idiot.
Right, but it WILL be the America that Obama inherits. The amount of work to be done in this country is almost overwhelming.
Some messages from the police message board
welcome to ft. greene u trustafarians, hope mommy and daddy pay for ur trip back home to nebraska. a sister cant even get her hair did no mo'
get well to the mos, but u gotta carry off duty where ever u go, i know i do. everybody has a gun in the ape-ape
LOL, yyeah, HUGO MEGO. Damn, you know who could straighten this out? A 72 year old former POW that kept totalling planes tehn tapped the governortorial equivalent of a power drunk middle manager from a small town that hates America enough to be involved with secessionist factions.
When I hear a hipster say that he/she is lving in Bushwick, Bed Sty,Crown Heights, Clinton Hill or any ghetto area I laugh. It's only going to get worse!!!!!!!
fort greene isn't ghetto. people get shot on the upper east side. is that ghetto?
if brownstones and trendy eateries make it ghetto, then i've got nowhere to aspire to move...
looks can be deceiving, bklynbpr. fort greene/clinton hill is certainly more dangerous than the UES.
description of perp?
the 19th precinct (upper east side) reported 42 committed crimes last week, versus 15 for the 88th (fort greene/clinton hill).
30 counts of grand larceny in 19th, versus 6 in the 88th. 9 counts of burglary versus 2.
so actually, jink, decade-old conceptions can be deceiving.
whats the population for both precincts? that would be helpful and not deceiving.