From BushwickBK:As people prepare to pop champagne to ring in the New Year, some will partake in Bushwick’s unofficial tradition of celebrating: popping a cap in the air.
Bushwick old timers say the tradition has spanned decades beginning sometime in the early 1970′s, when the demographic of area began to change.
"We moved here from Puerto Rico, when everyone living here was Italian," said a man in his 70s, who bought his house on Cornelia Street nearly 50 years ago. "I love my people but when we started moving in here we really messed the place up from what it was," he said.
Over the years the sound of celebratory gunfire on New Year’s has become such a common occurrence that for some residents it goes unnoticed.
"Who isn’t afraid of getting shot? But it’s not like they are shooting at people on New Year’s," said 22-year-old Joey, who grew up on Jefferson Street. "It’s kind of stupid but I guess that’s the way they celebrate because they think they gangsta."
Some people are more cautious as the clock strikes midnight.
"They are probably drunk and clearly are morons. We would just stay inside when it was midnight and not venture outside until hours later when the gunshots died down," a woman on Irving Avenue told BushwickBK.
Illegally discharging a weapon within New York City is a felony and doing so can land you in jail for three to fifteen years. But even with the threat of prison some Bushwickers are not dissuaded from ringing in the New Year with hot lead.
"The key is to shoot from a roof so you can see the cops before they see you," said a Bushwicker who plans to shoot some 100 bullets in the air at midnight.
Has he ever thought about where the bullets were landing?
The author then Twittered about it all night long...
17 comments:
the only intelligent person there is the one to admit that the Puerto Ricans ruined the neighborhood!
Seems harmless.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Jonathan Mena is a dumb ass white boy trying to sound tough. I hope the proper authorities pick up on his intelligence and find him.
Every neighborhood in America where gunplay is prevelant this occurs. It also occurs in the 4th of July.
Probably to remind the British that if they come around here thinking they still own America we'll blow their cock sucking heads off.
Probably to remind the British that if they come around here thinking they still own America we'll blow their cock sucking heads off.
No words. I'm speechless.
Speaking of "Assholes" -where are the NRA apologists?
As for the Puerto Ricans not caring where the bullets land..they don't seem to care where the garbage they throw from their window lands either.
But celebrating the new year with gunfire is Vibrant! and Diverse!
Yep, they really messed the place up that's for sure. Those people would throw garbage right out the window, play bongos, fight, party in the street, steal car battery's and bicycles all night long.
I been to Puerto Rico its really nice in most areas, people have class.
It seems all the sh*t and degenerates came here
The off the boat Greeks do this at weddings INDOORS ! I know a guitar player who got hit, ask George over at Astoria music
@ joe thank you for bringing perspective into this thread. Being puerto rican myself I know many view us in a very negative fashion, but the lowest of the low generally are the ones that live in these areas because its what they can afford, and then give all Puerto Ricans a bad name. But honestly its the same as white trash, and uneducated black people, they all do the same things in their neighborhoods but the minorities always seemed to be the ones getting singled out... Not an equality nut because despite the fact that Im neutral my views tend to be conservative but in this case im just stating the facts.
How does being poor entitle one throw garbage out the window, getting drunk, playing Bongo drums 2AM ?
My family was just as poor on Dekalb and Central, we didn't do those things nor accepted welfare or food stamps. The PR's had more $$ and rights then us thanks to that turd John Lindsay and Linden Johnson's pen to the Immigration Act of 1965
By age 12 on weekends I had 2 jobs: Scouring the streets with a wagon for Scrap metal in the morning then pushing carts of Star street pretzels up to Ridgewood to sell front McCrorys on Myrtle and the 2 church on Sundays with my grandfather.
Be 1970 we all had saved up $36,000 to buy a 2 fam house in Ridgewood ..cash.
Don't tell me being poor is an excuse for being a slob, drunk, welfare brat whatever I aint buying it !
I still have nightmares about the immigration act of 1965...
Who cares, let the animals kill each other, this city has gone to the dogs, i blame the "great migration" ..ugh
Immigration act of 1965 was a nation wide Hiroshima for American citys.
Whole US city's and neighborhoods were turned into slums in 5 years.
This piece of shit legislature instigated by the Kennedy crime family it was a holocaust to Americana, AND a piss on the peoples constitutional right to Liberty and Prosperity.
How dare the dam democrats in need of a new voting base put guns to everybody head and demand "you now must take in these useless people put-up with and pay for them"
No US citizens wanted this !
How does being poor entitle one throw garbage out the window, getting drunk, playing Bongo drums 2AM ?
It seems my neighborhood is like that. The other street has neighbors playing loud latin music into the wee hours of the night. If I can't sleep due to the noise and I need to go to work the next day, I don't know how the building neighbors deal with it. I guess they call the cops and they come and can't do much. I knew someone who tried to talk to his neighbor who played loud heavy metal music 24x7. The neighbor was a jerk and the cops couldn't do anything.
then those cops were useless.If you didn't answer the door,we wrote an ECB summons to the address,you didn't pay,a lien was put on your house.If it was a noise complaint in an apt biulding,we tripped the breaker or took the fuse.......
""We moved here from Puerto Rico, when everyone living here was Italian," said a man in his 70s, who bought his house on Cornelia Street nearly 50 years ago. "I love my people but when we started moving in here we really messed the place up from what it was," he said.""
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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