Crime & Safety
Residents Want Security Cameras Amid Crime Woes
The Hoyt Street and Boerum Hill associations have purchased two security cameras to help residents feel safer, but the City won't help to install them.
Nearly six months ago, the Hoyt Street and Boerum Hill associations purchased two $500 security cameras to hang on a post near Nevins Street, but the City won’t help to install them, according to the Brooklyn Paper. The block, though expensive, has been plagued by an increase in crimes in the past few years.
According to the Paper, Warren Street resident Rich Rollison asked the NYPD to install the cameras, but the matter was forwarded to ConEdison. Since the pole is owned by the City, the request was then forwarded to the Department of Transportation, who now say they have no record of the request.
At earlier this month, residents expressed worry about hearing gunshots on the same block.
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On October 9, , on September 21 and throughout September and October there were reports of shots fired in the vicinity of the Gowanus and Wyckoff housing projects.
Just this week on the corner of Hoyt and Warren streets for smoking and carrying marijuana.
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A security camera near the corner of Warren and Bond streets helped the police to apprehend a suspect who fatally shot a 16-year-old girl last May, just two days after the incident.
