underhill and st. johns corner crime troubles?

I'd stay away. I saw these two cats looking at buying up that block:

There is a lot of drug dealing on the corner of St. Johns and Washington, and has been for some time. I'm not sure about St. Johns and Underhill--when I walk that way it seems relatively quiet compared to Washington.

I'd suggest using the search function and deciding for yourself.

ProspectPlaceGirl wrote: [quote=Carnivore]I'd suggest using the search function and deciding for yourself.

wow. you kids are being sassy today! dudes just tryna get the scoop on what's goin on!!
It's just that there's been so many threads about this over the past 3 years. There's a ton of information already posted about this if you look for it.

mrjones wrote: FYI I have read through every single post on this site regarding these issues.

Since you've been reading, you will realize there is a pretty high fatigue on this issue, and people get bummed out (and so perhaps take a poke at you) by seeing it again. You can't expect people to do this every week when there's nothing new - TODAY today today.
You asked pretty generally, so I'm not sure what you mean by developments in the last few weeks.

I think you can trust your actual experience of the place. People live here, and live their lives. I don't know where there's a good assessment of crime by micronabe now compared to 10 or 15 years ago. CompStat has been in place that long, but police reporting is unreliable* and those kind of numbers aren't super available anyway as far as I know...
or has the CompStat stat history been posted somewhere...

mrjones wrote: I am trying to ge peoples takes on my questions TODAY - as there has been developments in the past couple weeks.

As a side note, as Im getting a lot of anymosity here; Ive lived in the neighborhood before, and have been in brooklyn since the nineties. And I grew up in a neighborhood like PH.. just in PGH. Im neither ignorant nor a yuppie. just trying to be happy in my new neighborhood.

* I'm referring to how things are characterized and counted in the internal reporting (five incidents by one perp can be cooked to be one incident in the reporting), and the number of crimes of the type the OP is interested in that either are not reported or are turned away at the police station. If anyone really wants to talk about crime reporting and statistics, there is probably a better place to do it.

Mr. Jones...check your PM.

Take a walk, look around for the sneakers hanging from the traffic lights.. I think there "was" as pair over on Underhill and St. Johns, and maybe two pairs on Washington and St. Johns..

SirSterling wrote: Take a walk, look around for the sneakers hanging from the traffic lights.. I think there "was" as pair over on Underhill and St. Johns, and maybe two pairs on Washington and St. Johns..

This is a good barometer.
Here's a pic from about a year ago at Underhill between Lincoln and St Johns.

what do sneakers hanging from traffic lights mean?

can you just learn me instead?

thanks, god

Last Sunday I was double parked on the corner of St.J's and Underhill waiting for a p-spot when I saw a bunch of kids across from the bodega throw a gym bag across the street. A fight ensued and about 5 minutes later police pulled up, padded down the kids, sent a few away and kept one. One of the police walked across the street and picked up the bag. Then I saw a woman come around the corner and talk to the police, she stayed there until another woman come out of the building where the kid was stationed and started talking to the kid being detained. It looked like these two women knew each other and if I had to guess, the woman who came out of the building was the kid's mom...she was really angry, yelling in the other woman's face. I found a p-spot and then went home. So, I have no idea if there was an arrest, but it looked like it was heading that way.

I assume from the looks of it, there was a drug bust going on. The kids to me looked like they were in high school. So yeah, I'd say there is some dealing going on on St.J's and Underhill. That night I noticed that there were two cars stationed on Washington and Lincoln and St.J's and Underhill w/lights flashing but no occupants. It looks as if police were trying to send a clear message that that night was not the night to be out selling. By the time I was double parked on St.J's the car was gone, but it had been there for maybe two hours before that! Looks like the 77th is aware there are issues in the neighborhood. I've been on St.J's since '98 and have never seen that kinda action before.

It looked more like kids just fooling around, not throwing down for real! Why would the police even bother with something like that if the scrap took all of half a minute, wasn't loud...and was well over by the time they showed up?! All those kids were doind was hanging on the front stoop of the building before all that had happened.

Why the pad down? Why throw the gym bag across the street and leave it there? None of the kids walked across to get it after the brawl or when the police showed up and told them to scram!

Definitely had the look of a drug thing going on. Say what ya will!