The above flyers are up along Avenue B and East Eighth Street and East Ninth Street.
The person responsible for the flyers said that the incident took place outside 295 East Eighth St. at Avenue B around 2 a.m. Friday. The suspect described in the flyer left the scene when a neighbor intervened and jumped the fence into Tompkins Square Park.
All the exact advice I received when I took a self defense class, plus kicking in the knee and poking out eyes. Also getting a rock and breaking a window to attract help in a dire situation.
ReplyDeleteOfficially awaiting the first person to say "...nothing like this ever happens around here, it's such a nice safe neighborhood..."
ReplyDeleteNot at all to discount the seriousness of this, but I suspect that some of the young women walking around alone late at night are immersed in their phones actually because they are feeling nervous and the phone calms them down and gives them a feeling of familiarity and security, almost like a drug. Which is not logical given the real-world circumstances, but there you go. Kudos to whoever made that flyer, it should be handed out at college orientation.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the many reasons I love the EV. In Brooklyn, neighbors would have ignored the assault.
ReplyDeleteI was taught to always walk in the middle of the sidewalk so no one could come out of a car or building and drag me inside, and to keep my keyring in the palm of my hand with the keys protruding from between my fingers like little spikes so I could use them as a weapon if grabbed. I also learned to watch the shadows coming up behind me on the street at night so I could see if someone was getting too close, if I felt they were I'd stop, turn and face them. Usually they walked by me but a couple of times they stopped, looked at me, turned and went away. Used those tricks a lot down here in the late 70s-early 80s.
ReplyDelete2AM on a Friday early morning is still pretty lively around the nabe, even the park. Where were all the bros?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, on the phone walking alone by a desolate park oblivious to all is bad enough, drunk, oblivious, and on the phone is deadly.
They are still drinking at 2. Please be careful. Predators can come from anywhere in NYC so it doesn't matter how 'safe' the area is
DeleteNo one is saying, "It never happens on this block." I live on this block, and there was a rape a few doors down, a few years ago.
ReplyDeletePeople forget that this used to be the neighborhood no one wanted to live in; in the 70s, the owner of the building I live in was murdered on the 3rd-floor landing.
My roommate, who lived here at the time, learned this from the guy's son, who owned the gas station on Lafayette that would eventually become the "B-Bar."
The top of the desk I'm typing on now was originally used by my roommate to block the fire-escape window from the junkies. Even when I was moving in here it was still kind of sketchy.
Gojira, Back in the day, you walked in the middle of the street to be safe, not in the middle of the sidewalk. Back then, east of Avenue A was a virtual ghost town as night descended. The logic was, at least a passing motorist might -- just might -- debilitate or frighten your attacker.
ReplyDeleteSo I'm a bit bemused that women are so accepting of their environs, even around a desolate area that borders the park. Years of conditioning have taught me otherwise.
Take back the night!!!
ReplyDeleteThe police have a warrant for him and know who he is.
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