Those of you lamenting the sanitized, homogenized, baby-pushing Prospect Heights: 2005 Edition can take solace in the fact that a car was torched and abandoned near the Newswalk condos on Dean Street on Friday night. See previous post for details. Many thanks to DAILY HEIGHTS regular-slash-supporter rogersma for pointing us to an incredible slideshow of the event posted by mac.com user kevpatrick:
LINK: Car Bomb – Car blew up outside my building Fri Sept 9th, 8pm. Torched and abandoned. The Good Old Days…. [kevpatrick on mac.com]
Still no word on what caused the fire (too lazy to pick up the phone, call the 77th Precinct and get yelled at for actually trying to get information on a crime that happened in my neighborhood), but BrooklynSwordStyle said, “rumor has it there was a woman in the car, and a guy ran up and threw something into it. The woman got out, and the car exploded.” Jack said that soon after 9/11 (the original 9/11) someone blew up a car on Dean Street between Nevins Street and Third Avenue: “When I grew up near Coney Island, seeing burned out shells of cars was quite common… Many times cars that are stolen for joyrides are torched after the joyriders ditch it.”
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