Can we get a description of the suspects? No? Anyone? Oh, that's right political correctness makes that impossible.

No description of the victim or suspects

TRANSLATION: "amish" and/or Democrats.

PS  - DNAinfo has more on this: PD found crack in the guys pockets...

http://www.dnainfo.com/2011062...

Suhprase, Suhprase...

Hipster shitheads rejoice!  ...here comes the 70's-style New York you long for.

what're you talking about? it never left that area.

From the Daily News link: "Benny Blanco, 38, was smoking a cigarette nearby when he heard the shots..."Um, Benny Blanco...??

Yeah, I've lived on Pitt and it's not the type of street for a single female to walk alone after the sun goes down, mainly for the relentless harassment.  Now I live in between  C&D and although Ave. D is sketchy, they mostly keep the crime in the pjex.  They shoot and rob each other, not the yuppies on my block.

I'm in the process of applying for an apt on that street.  This is nice.  I guess I won't have to miss the sound of gunshots that I currently enjoy in my neighborhood. -_-

I lived at 85 Pitt and moved out when rats became a problem in addition to dealing with upstairs neighbors and their domestic disturbances.  If you're female, it's definitely not a safe bet to walk home alone.  My roommate always had to take a cab and ask the driver to wait until she was able to get inside -- we had something that resembled a steel cage that required a key plus two other doors before you could actually get in.  In the daytime she had to pick different routes to walk to work because of the street harassment (one time she was followed for several blocks).  Police activity on the block is common and I remember a teenage girl getting hit by a stray bullet outside of the corner bodega on Rivington & Pitt.  Happy renting!

I'm good. Pitt street doesn't scare me. I've seen worse, I grew up in the projects. It's all pretty much candyland compared to what it was.

At least you'll be safe from rampant gentrification for a while.

Have fun, Pitt's a sketchy block.  It's got more in common with Avenue D than it's north of Houston neighbor Avenue C.

This is pretty scary stuff; I'm in the East Village fairly often. How long until the sketchiness creeps a few blocks northwest? 

Um, actually It's been there the entire time, and gentrification attempts just plopped the trendiness on top of the issue.  Try walking all the way east one day, and you'll see NYCHA housing as far as the eye can see.

One look at a map was enough to keep me from walking all the way east. (You can see the tell-tale shape of those developments in satellite photos.)

Anyway, I've always felt *relatively* safe in the East Village, so long as I've got my wits about me. That said, I've been wondering how it's possible to still find a real 1BR there for ~$2K. 

It's the appearance of relative safety or sketchiness.  No guarantees in life guys.  Rozzo, if you can, I'd say abandon the application asap.

I'll be okay. Grew up in L.E.S. in the projects. We're not all animals. It's just funny to see how much L.E.S. has changed. It's still way better now than it was. And people seem to forget that the L.E.S. was a slum before it became the hood. Gentrification or not, you have plenty of the original people there that will never leave, they survived the truly frightening years. I remember when Delancey street was all crackheads.

I'm pretty cautious and watch my back. The guys who sit around hitting on women don't really bother me anymore. I've heard it all.

Want to hear something fun I found out the other day? There are only 4 Housing Authority cops assigned to deal with all of the Projects on the L.E.S. 4 cops. There are approximately six project neighborhoods from Baruch on Houston down to Smith on Madison Street. No wonder there are still shoot outs.

Now you can enjoy the B&T crowd, frat and sorority twats, prostitutes, gangbangers and the occasional hipster. Enjoy!