A pleasant weekend evening in the borough of Queens devolved into another incident of the gun violence that is still persistently casting it’s shadow on the streets of New York City. This time the violence came to Middle Village, where a shuttered commercial property that once was home to a hardware store that went out of business 2 years ago.
In recent days, or maybe longer according to area residents complaints, the vacant property has been re-appropriated as a pop-up event space for DJ and bottle parties where high end booze is consumed in mass quantities. Basically these are glorified but unregulated nite clubs, no different than the speakeasies of the last 20’s this nation went through last century. From the looks of this place, the entrance to the event space was in the back.
The local area newspaper Juniper Park Civic immediately had the scoop, naturally because it’s base is right there where the incidents occurred. The Civic also updated their tweets to include a DOB record of a violation given for a complaint over a month earlier for illegal partying in the former hardware store.
Given that this was another incident adding to the city’s continuing gun crisis and increasing rise in unabated shootings in the face of the equal rise in gun possession arrests, compounded by the fact that a building landlord would flout regulations and violations by continuing to permit illicit parties in his space, it would be wholly inconceivable if this wasn’t picked up by all the major local newspapers and news websites and even the other Queens weekly periodical newspapers.
But it was conceivable. Because despite the severity of the crimes committed and of gun violence being a daily occurrence in the five boroughs, the NY Post didn’t cover it, the NY Daily News didn’t cover it, Gothamist didn’t cover it, QNS, Queens Chronicle, Queens Post and Ridgewood Post didn’t cover it. Hardly any local Queens blog covered it (sans Queens Crap, which my ally and original Queens Crapper dutifully posted Junipers tweet immediately with a deliciously sardonic headline).
New Bad Update:
A few nights after the Queens Chronicle article about the community's complaints about the closed business cum pop up nite club, another illicit party went on with total impunity.
18 comments:
Yeah, more regulation demanded by the job destroyers.
The other media outlets are not blogs and cover an entire city. An out of control party doesn't get their attention. Queens based media did cover it.
I thought Bobby Holden had all this kinda stuff fixed. Guess all that #backtgeblue isn’t yielding any return from help from the blue.
I thought Bobby Holden had all this kinda stuff fixed. Guess all that #backtgeblue isn’t yielding any return from help from the blue.
Were the gunslingers at the saloon VAXXED?
Nobody died, so this hardly rises to the level of newsworthy. Meanwhile, had someone spotted a 20 year old noose-shaped garage door pull, 50 cops would have descended immediately on the area, followed by a team of crack FBI agents who would analyze the rope under an electron microscope for any microscopic signs of white supremacy. Joey Slops Biden would get on TV to mumble something about "this is not who we are" and DeBlasio would make ten appearances in the neighborhood, intoning that we must "fight white supremacy at all costs!" while fifty black kids were busy shooting one another that week.
Don’t worry. New York’s laziest will be on the case.
Leftists are emasculating law and order. Prove me wrong...
After arresting a criminal, the cops will have to ask them to give a 1 - 5 stars rating. "How was your arrest today?"
NYPD will give gift cards to every arrest.
After arresting a criminal, the cops
They arrest suspects. Conviction comes in courts.
Recently, in the small town where I live, there was an exchange of gunfire between a homeowner and a police swat team. The police arrived at night dressed in all black swat team attire, jackboots and all, on a complaint about this man's welfare. He panicked and opened fire, hitting one officer in the head. He was also wounded. The police say that he fired first, he says that the police fired first. Where in the hell was the social worker?
on a complaint about this man's welfare.
Political hacks and their laws, best money can buy.
What you described is the outcome.
All the people complaining about the cops are the same people that voted for Deblasio twice. You get what you vote for.
@"All the people complaining about the cops are the same people that voted for Deblasio twice. You get what you vote for."
The cops were sitting on their asses staring at their phones long before DeBlazio.
@“ All the people complaining about the cops are the same people that voted for Deblasio twice. ”
I complain about the cops. I never voted for DeBlazio.
@All the people complaining about the cops are the same people that voted for Deblasio twice. You get what you vote for.
You get what the powers to be decide you should get.
Dominion makes sure of that.
Welcome to NYC-Land of the Lawless.
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