{"id":1124,"date":"2006-06-05T09:50:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T17:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/how_much_crack_can_new_yorkers_possibly_smoke.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:13:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:13:56","slug":"how_much_crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/how_much_crack.html","title":{"rendered":"How Much Crack Can New Yorkers Possibly Smoke?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn authorities arrested 143 Red Hook drug dealers (!) cutting off $50 million (!!) in annual profits, according to District Attorney Charles Hynes. The Brooklyn Paper (.pdf<\/a>) notes that dealers sold an impressive 9,324 vials of crack a day:<\/p>\n

District Attorney Charles Hynes announced last week that the thugs earned $50 million annually slinging drugs in and around the neighborhood’s most-concentrated residential development, the Red Hook Houses.<\/p>\n

“The amount of drug dealing turned the development into a drug supermarket,” said Hynes at a press conference last week.<\/p>\n

He added that the busts had nothing to do with the city’s latest tourism efforts in the neighborhood, including a brand new terminal for the Queen Mary 2 . . .<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Dealers had treated the neighborhood like they owned it, dividing up the housing development in a very business-like fashion into sections reserved for certain vendors.<\/p>\n

The residential enclave closest to Red Hook Park — open fields where children play soccer and baseball — was known as “The Back Tall Buildings,” while the section close to the neighborhood’s popular discount store and its only bank was called “The Front.”<\/p>\n

“They were out there every day in the courtyard,”
\nsaid resident Andrea McKnight. “Now they are gone and it feels better.”<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Of course, not everyone loves a drug-free zone.<\/p>\n

“My pot dealer refuses to come here anymore,” said one bartender on Van Brunt Street, referring to the stepped-up police presence. “He says it’s too hot now.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn authorities arrested 143 Red Hook drug dealers (!) cutting off $50 million (!!) in annual profits, according to District Attorney Charles Hynes. The Brooklyn Paper (.pdf) notes that dealers sold an impressive 9,324 vials of crack a day: District Attorney Charles Hynes announced last week that the thugs earned $50 million annually slinging drugs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}