NYCHA would not respond to any other questions.īy mid-afternoon Friday, two workers wheeled a shopping cart filled with new light bulbs into the building. “Regarding the tragic shooting at the Pink Houses, NYCHA is cooperating with the NYPD as the investigation proceeds,” it read. Veronica Newsome, a seventh-floor tenant said, “I have a 19-year-old grandson, and I’m scared to death.”Īsked about tenant complaints, the New York City Housing Authority issued a vague statement. “The lights are always out, for the past three years,” said Angela Moore, who shakes her keys in the hallway so people can hear her coming. in East New York, were frightened long before the shooting of Akai Gurley, 28. Residents of the complex, at 2724 Linden Blvd. “The Pink Houses are among the most dangerous projects in the city, and their stairwells are the most dangerous places in the projects.” “Dimly lit stairways and dilapidated conditions create fertile ground for violent crime while the constant presence of illegal firearms creates a dangerous and highly volatile environment for police officers and residents alike,” said Patrick Lynch, a police union president. Pink Houses, which tenants say is completely neglected by the city.Ī simple task like fixing a light bulb went ignored for three weeks before Thursday, when a police officer killed a man in an unlit stairwell. Living in fear at the dark & deadly hellhole housesĭark hallways, a lack of security cameras and spotty elevator service are par for the course in Brooklyn’s notorious Louis H. Jurors will hear cop's statement to partner in fatal stairwell shooting
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Subscribe to the Globe’s free real estate newsletter - our weekly digest on buying, selling, and design - at /AddressSignUp.Man wounded, woman clings to life following Brooklyn shootingĬorrections officer arrested for dealing drugs They were built in the 1800s, so that’s understandable.” Some that come on the market need a lot of work. “The current owners have done it up nicely the buyer won’t have to do much to it. “It all has to be done to keep the cottage historically correct,” Lucier noted of the renovation. The restoration honored original details such as the arched Gothic double doors, and though this cottage does not have a parking spot, because the owners opted to create a backyard patio, leased parking is available within the campground’s designated lots at $125 per year. “About 80 percent of the cottages are not winterized.” “About 10 percent live year-round,” Lucier said. The Pink House’s current owners undertook an extensive restoration from 2016-2017, including refinishing the pine floors, updating the kitchen, and refreshing the exterior painting. But the two loft-like bedrooms have little separation between them: “It’s not really private, there’s a curtain that separates it,” said Lucier.īut then it’s called a campground for a reason. The Pink House, which is on the market for $635,000, has two bedrooms and one bath and officially sleeps six. That ideal extends inside the small homes, too. “They want to promote warm neighborly interaction among residents.”
“There is a good-neighbor policy because the homes are so close together,” said Lucier. Though residents do not have to subscribe to a particular religion, a spiritual element among them is common.
Set in a grove surrounding an open-air tabernacle, the cottages remain privately owned, with the campground overseen by the association, which along with maintenance of the area (homeowner association fees range from $1,200-$1,400, said Lucier) also imposes rules. With the public beach and Oak Bluffs’s shops and restaurants within easy walking distance, the cottages remain very popular with summer residents, and some owners rent theirs through the association. Oak Bluffs, along with Edgartown and Vineyard Haven, is one of Martha’s Vineyard’s main centers of commerce and entertainment and houses one of the two ferry terminals connecting the island to mainland Massachusetts. Eventually, the organization replaced tents with these small, ornate cottages. Located in Wesleyan Grove, officially the Wesleyan Grove National Historic District, this central Oak Bluffs neighborhood was originally a Methodist summer campground.
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