Moneyries just informed me of this drastic new security measure. Don't worry Williamsburgers scared of being stabbed! Some dude in a crane might see you and ostensibly call his associates who aren't stuck up in a crane.
Sky Watch in Williamsburg [Moneyries]
The hunt is on for murder suspect Michael Torres, 19, who allegedly shot and killed another man at a Williamsburg bus stop. According to NY1, the 5' 3" Torres' last known address was on Bushwick Avenue. [NY1]
This Gothamist map tells the story pretty clearly. Who knows whether or not the worst is over. Stay alert out there, Williamsburg!
Teenagers and disaffected models beware! Unruly Williamsburg thugs want to steal your Sidekick, and they’ll take it straight from your furiously texting hands. From the Brooklyn Paper:
(Not an actual Williamsburg Police Officer)
The 'Metropolitan Mugger', as the Brooklyn Paper calls him, has been apprehended at long last. The knife weilding thief was apparently out on parole, and was captured thanks to a routine license check by the friendly neighborhood NYPD. It turns out nobody was actually stabbed, just threatened by the man, so we'll likely see a decrease in the abnormally high level of police activity in the Burg. Maybe now it'll be safe to jaywalk again.
As you may or most likely may not know, this month is National Poetry Month (Apparently, it's every April, and has been since 1996. Poetry needs a new PR rep.) and WIlliamsburgers have been celebrating with epic odes and sensitive sonnets on Williamsboard, as noted by Gawker. That goes down as the only actual documented celebration thus far this month, besides the occasional recitations on early morning/late night NPR (but there have been no documented cases of anyone having listened to them).
Hopefully, April's iambic aura will lend some poetic justice to struggling independent record stores, which hope to draw crowds for Record Store Day. As detailed in this NY Times piece, there are plenty of reasons to support your deserving local record shop: among them, as mentioned in an earlier post, Regina Spektor will play for free at Soundfix. But if you find yourself out and about in the city tomorrow, you can catch local indie staples Grizzly Bear DJing at another fine independent record shop, Other Music, accompanied by Deerhunter and Tapes 'N Tapes.
Want to support your local record store, but you're low on cash? No problem! Do what plenty of others are doing in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, and loot yourself some copper! According to the Brooklyn Paper, thieves are making off with thousands of dollars worth of the stuff at constructions sites across the neighborhoods, so it can't be that tough. That's enough money for that first edition Joy Division LP you've always wanted! Plus, you'll get the added self-satisfaction of doing your part to stop the dastardly development in the burg. Just make sure that the site you loot isn't going to be a new record store.
Gawker has a disturbingly hilarious roundup of police blotter activity in Williamsburg. People are getting robbed at gunpoint, their iPods are getting stolen, one girl even had her Screen Actors Guild card taken from her purse. Sick, sick bastards. [Gawker]
Murders have dropped citywide by 18 percent, meaning you don't have to worry about getting stabbed while stumbling home from Royal Oak. Or do you?
Murders were up 8% in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, East New York, Crown Heights, Bushwick, Fort Greene, Williamsburg and Greenpoint in the first nine months of this year - 104 victims, compared with 96 for the corresponding period last year. [NY Daily News]
To be fair, the biggest rise in crime was in Brownsville, which had a 37 percent increase in murders, meaning the only thing wary Williamsburgers have to worry about is their condos devaluing. Sorry, that's the last Williamsburg cliche I will indulge in until I see a emaciated man-boy stuffing cash from his trust fund into his skinny jeans while whistling an indie rock tune he illegally downloaded. Goooooo cliches!
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