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Crown Heights [CHI] — Gunfire broke out today just as police, organizers and food vendors began to fill Eastern Parkway in preparation for tomorrow's enormous West Indian Day Parade. A man was shot in the hand at 1919 Eastern Parkway at 2:20pm, near the corner of Buffalo Avenue at the edge of Lincoln-Terrace (AKA Rochester) Park.

Labor Day Violence Gets Early Start

Crown Heights [CHI] — Gunfire broke out today just as police, organizers and food vendors began to fill Eastern Parkway in preparation for tomorrow’s enormous West Indian Day Parade. A man was shot in the hand at 1919 Eastern Parkway at 2:20pm, near the corner of Buffalo Avenue at the edge of Lincoln-Terrace (AKA Rochester) Park.

The victim was rushed to Brookdale Hospital and is in stable condition.

A suspect was taken into custody further down Eastern Parkway; police said the investigation is ongoing.

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28 Comments

  • Unnacceptable

    This garbage being allowed to continue is disgusting. I would LOVE to hear Mayor Bloomberg’s reponse here.

  • so sad

    This is how they behave when happy? I hope the cops stop and frisk everyone, all day long.

  • 1 year anniversary

    Exactly last labor day my friend and I were caught in the middle of 2 shootouts. The first shoot out I ducked under a car and the shoot was only a few short feet behind the opposite side. It was the scariest day of my life – and the greatest gift ever! I got the gift of continuing my life. And so many wonderful things have happened this year. Life is way too precious and short … Cherish the good times and move on from bad feelings

  • 1 year anniversary

    After being in the middle of 2 shootouts last year I know how scary it is. I thought my life was going to end. I sincerely hope every Jew is safe

  • SOS CROWN HEIGHTS

    this is crazy. gangs / crew all over crown heights probably looking for trouble. God bless us all from now on until Labor Day is all over.

  • violation of civil rights

    By having this parade each year ,the city is violating the civil rights of the residents of crown hights ,since the police have no way in the world to control this amount of people under these circumstances. crown hights is under siege and the resident are at risk, as we see people get killed every year her, the residents of crown hights should file a class action law suit against the city to have this parade moved to manhatten just like all other partads this size in an area that it can be done in a safe way.

  • DeClasse- Intellectual

    why is anyone surprised? This is a common occurence and it is why that celebration should be moved and isolated.
    It is lucky that the police did not have to use guns in response to the shooting given how bad their marksmenship was at the last violent outbreak of gunfire in New York

  • Fed Up

    What happened to a “gun-free” city? Oh that’s right it does not exist! End communist/nazi gun control!

  • the songs of da islands

    Many Calypso and Soca songs from Trinidad make reference to Labour Day Carnival, including “Gunplay on the Eastern Parkway” by Calypso Rose, “Melee (on the Eastern Parkway)” by Maestro

  • U R an idiot

    To #11

    It’s not passive racism. It’s open AND JUSTIFIED. You liberals have never been victims so you don’t get it. If you were you are too stupid to see what it is – blatant anti semitism & anti- white rhetoric. But that’s OK for you do gooders, as long as it isn’t the poor, downtrodden “African Americans” (JOKE!) getting any of it.

    How’s Obama working out for you, buddy?

  • Not Surprised

    As a resident of Crown Heights and a West Indian…it is clear that the Hasidic community commenting is not accepting of West Indian culture or “blacks”….During Purim when many Jews are inebriated while walking the streets with open containers which is against the law…it is not written about on this media outlet. The postive aspects of Labor Day during the carnival is also not written about. You would think that two communities that suffered because of Eugenics will understand that all “blacks” and “Jews” should be looked upon as individuals only!

  • Move the subways away

    I remember being in the Franklin Avenue subway station when a shootout occurred there. So, let’s move that line to Manhattan.

  • Surprised

    To #16
    I am surprised that you don’t practice what you preach. You say: “all “blacks” and “Jews” should be looked upon as individuals only!” , yet you look at some of the crazy individuals commenting here as representing the Hasidic community. A few days after a Haitian man raped and murdered a young Hasidic mother, I was approached by a West Indian man who told me that he was horrified and outraged at that tragic incident. When he held his hand out, I did not say “I don’t believe you , you’re all the same”, what I did was to warmly shake his hand and thank him for his support and sympathy. I am sure there are many positive aspects of the Labor Day carnival, however please try to understand, that for many of us, it is hard to experience them in person at the parade, for many of us are not accustomed to being up close to speaker systems powerful enough for a football stadium, and our religous laws of modesty forbid males to gaze at partially nude women. Some of us, (not out of fear from a violent West Indian community, but) out of fear from the violence of the crazy individuals who take advantage of a wonderful cultural event that is held in a location where the police cannot properly provide the necessary security, are simply trapped in our homes.
    In conclusion, have a happy and healthy Labor Day!

  • We have no problem with culture or color

    To 16:

    The problem is serious criminal activity at these events. If that would be absent, then we would have few complaints, if any.
    How often do you see Jews, even drunk, engaging in gun warfare? Does it happen, of course! But how often?

  • disgusted

    I am in shock by both the tone and content of some of these comments.
    Have you guys lost your minds?
    Have you no sense of decency?
    I grew up in CH and lived through the worst of it in the sixties and seventies, so no one dare lecture me.
    This racism is absolutely against halacha and our values, and is certainly a chillul lubavitch.
    You people need to get back to basics and check some of your attitudes with your mashpiim and/or rabonnim.
    Erev Yomim Noiraim and you are proud to be making such Chilulei Hashem.
    For shame.

  • The Cochran Law Firm

    “Disrespect” (diss you, diss me,diss her,) is a Violation of Human Rights..We will Defend any Defendent that shoots Violator

  • Critical of New York Judges

    #12: You do not understand that under Bloomberg and his liberal judicial system and judges, law abidiing citzens are not allowed to have guns or to defend themselves because that is a violation of their interpretation of the law while criminals are allowed to have guns and to commit crimes because that is their civil rights.
    How else do you explain the fact that police can be sued and found guilty of violating a criminal civil rights when said criminal was shot committing a major crime or that a homeowener could be sued and found guilty for evey penny he has if he shot an intruder for breaking into his house in the middle of the night.

  • Positive aspects

    To # 16 – I have lived in Crown Heights for 30+ years and have never seen a Jew on Purim “walking the streets with open containers” of alcohol. The drinking and celebrating done on Purim is in the home with family, not in the streets. It is possible that it may have happened, but it is incorrect to say that it is done by “Many Jews”. What I HAVE seen are inebriated “blacks” with open containers of alcohol and marijuana in the streets and on street corners ALL YEAR ROUND. It is less prevalent than years ago but still goes on.

    When is the last time you heard of a shooting or knifing on Purim? It is absurd to compare the Labor Day parade to Purim.

    Do not think that just because Hasidic people in Crown Heights are unhappy with the Labor Day parade that makes them racist. There are decent black residents of Crown Heights that are unhappy as well and keep their distance, and they cannot be accused of being racist because of it…

    You say that the “positive aspects” of the parade are not written about. We hear about those “positive aspects” year after year in the media, the “colorful” parade and celebration of culture. It’s hard to wax eloquent about those “positive aspects” when you’re dodging bullets like #3… Although #3 was close to becoming yet another parade victim there is not a trace of racisim in his comments, he only expresses his love of life.

  • #gentrificationstinks

    How is reporting on a local shooting justification for mud-slinging in either direction? Why should this devolve into Black vs. Jewish rhetoric? #5, that’s a red herring. #12, if you want a gun, get a permit. #2, stop and frisk is a way for cops to make their daily quotas. The only thing it really does is occasionally catch people who are violating probation by, like, carrying bags of weed. #7, stop and frisk is an actual violation of civil rights; the parade is merely an event with some good aspects and some bad apples — there are people who live in perpetually violent neighborhoods and I don’t hear you crying out for their “civil rights”. #16, we don’t do multiculturalism. Lucky for you there are a lot of white hipsters moving into the Black buildings and they will be happy to accept you while they simultaneously jack up the price of rent in Crown Heights and push all of us out to Canarsie and Jersey in search of affordable housing. One way for Jews and Blacks to get together and do something productive would be to find a way to stabilize rents in this neighborhood. The real threat is gentrification. As much as we don’t like living together, we’re a lot better off living together than living with the white people who are buying up the brownstones. How ’bout we all get together to try to stabilize rents? ‘Cuz pretty soon this place will go the way of Williamsburg and there’s going to be million dollar condos and nowhere for any of us to actually live. K?

  • To #23

    I am astounded. You have never seen drunken Yidden in CH on Purim? or on Simchas Torah? or after a farbrengen? or on a shabbos afternoon after the upteenth kiddush? You are on drugs, blind, a liar, or possibly so drunk yourself that you don’t know the difference between delusion and reality. ( Yeah, I know, on Shabbos they don’t carry the alcohol outside. But all the other times they do.)

    Don’t you guys get it? Racism is racism no matter how you try to justify it. I don’t care if you blame it on African American muggers or Jewish landlords. It is vile and disgusting, and it has no place either in Judaism or in civilized society.

  • Realist Jew

    #24 you make the most sense. I seen lately a lot of white people moving back to Brooklyn especially Crown Heights and Bed-stuy. I guess they want back Brooklyn. Most of Brooklyn back in the day was mostly white.