Bullets on Rivington: Circa 1 AM
Sitting on my couch late last night i heard the distinct sound of gunfire…four quick shots, and then, wait for it, the fifth fired. I know this sound well between growing up in Jersey City back in the day, and having lived in Crown Heights where this sound was common…still i shrugged it off…couldn’t be gunshots, it’s the LES, where hipsters and B&T folk play in the same sand box, right?
They were gunshots, in fact there was a straight up ‘say hello to my little friend’ style drug war shoot out. The security guys in my building let me see the video output from the building’s security cameras, after they informed me that one of the bullets came through the window of a first floor apartment in my building and landed in my neighbors wall…bullet trajectory, still clearly visible from the street.
The video captured a woman walking with what looked like groceries, coming down the block and then frantically running for her life into our vestibule, while a gang of thugs walked, actually strolled, up and down the block just shooting back and forth.
It took the cops about 5minutes to get here from a station that is less than a one minute walk from my building and I think they got one guy announcing to the few who were gathered in our lobby, this is drug related, expect more of this. Excellent.





