A source reports gunshots were heard near Irvington Elementary at 220 Irving, and it seems someone was injured. An ambulance and several cop cars and a van raced to the scene. More info as it comes.
UPDATE from DCPI: “Victim was Male Hispanic, 25, He was shot one time, in the back, in and out, We don’t know who shot him, Unknown motive, unknown whether it is gang related. 83rd still investigating.”
We’ll let you know as soon as we get more info.
JB May 15th, 2009 at 11:28 am
it’s true although it was at harman and irving, not himrod. i heard (i think) 5 shots. not sure of the outcome, but within 20 seconds of the shots the streets were filled with startled neighbors and screaming children. what happened?
KN May 15th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Any ideas on where to get more info about what happened at the school? I live two blocks over on Irving and heard the shots yesterday, very curious.
WT May 15th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
The shooting occurred outside the school when the kids were getting out of school. There were children outside with staff and parents. They were brought back inside as quickly as possible and remained inside for about an hour along with parents. Didn’t make any major news networks which is strange.
armstrong May 16th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
there’s a few buildings on Harman, by Knickerbocker that practically bring down the whole neighborhood on their own they’re so ghetto. it’s a shame, because over the last 10 years, the street as a whole has gotten better but then you have 294 Harman getting progressively worse.
pollysyllabick May 19th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
I live on Harman Street at the corner of Knickerbocker, right actress from 294 Harman. There was a raid on the apartment there just a few weeks after we moved in back in April; depsite tons of cops, paddy wagons, cars, etc., not a single arrest was made, not that we could tell anyway. The street on the whole seems to be largely families, good workingclass people, etc., but that one building is scary. I’ve lived in Newark and Elizabeth, NJ, at various times, “hoods” with the same rep as Bushwick, and only once encountered neighbors as thugged out and obviously into bad shit as those guys are. Hoping that the eventual shitshow waiting to go down there won’t involve them coming after the new kids on the block…
pollysyllabick May 19th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
And by “actress” clearly I meant “across.” I wonder what subliminal shit is going on in my brain today, lord…
armstrong May 20th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I hear you Polly. My first apartment in Bushwick back in 2000, was at 294 Harman! So I mention it w/some authority.
Over the two years that I lived there, the landlord (Jeffrey Zagelbaum, at the time) would replace tenants that had moved out with tenants that were in homeless shelters. Apparently, the landlord gets a bonus from some city agency for doing this. As a result of his short-sighted greed however, he’s turned the building into a bonafide crack house.
Once this trend became apparent, I got the hell out of there—$700 rent-stabilized apartment be damned!
I know there is something called the “Crackhouse Law” which can go after building owners of houses used for
the manufacture, storage, distribution or use of illegal drugs to the point of confiscating the property.
I just doubt that the dwindling number of decent tenants there have the wherewithal to pursue it. Perhaps people in neighboring buildings, community boards, etc can weigh in and get the authorities to apply some real pressure.
Good luck.