By COLlive reporter
Crown Heights residents are bitterly complaining about non-stop fireworks which have become a nightly occurrence in the neighborhood and has been going on unchecked, without police interference.
For the past few weeks, beginning at 9:00 PM and going through the night, the neighborhood sounds like what many are calling a “war zone,” with non-stop fireworks in the streets.
“My children are afraid to sleep at night, it’s been terrible,” one resident told COLlive.com on Tuesday night.
Many residents have attempted to call 311 and the police, to no avail.
One frustrated resident related, “my husband called 311 and they said, ‘call the police.’ So he called the police, and they said, ‘is it an emergency?’ So he called the local precinct, and they didn’t answer the phone.”
One video on social media shows a group of teenagers lighting fireworks in plain sight on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, while another video shows a group of men coming from a Fire Station in Crown Heights and lighting fireworks in the street.
According to the New York Post, city data that shows a massive 4,000-percent surge in firecracker complaints during the first two weeks of June.
The city’s 311 system clocked 849 fireworks grievances from June 1 to June 14 compared to just 21 during the same period last year.
“Fireworks are illegal and dangerous, and children and seniors have been unable to sleep for weeks because of the fireworks. The city will get dangerous very fast if the police department loses their ability to enforce the law,” said community activist and Public Safety Chair for CB9, Yaacov Behrman, who said that he is speaking as a Crown Heights resident and not on behalf of the safety committee.
A person in Crown Heights was seriously injured Tuesday night after he attempted to light fireworks from his apartment window, and the fireworks accidentally exploded directly onto him, a police source told COLlive.
“The silent majority has lost their voice, and the city has been hi-jacked,” an unnamed police source told COLlive, referring to the momentum that the “Defund the Police” movement has gained.
“Cops have lost the tools and resources to ensure the law is being kept,” the source said, since Mayor Bill de Blasio has stopped the NYPD from using unmarked vehicles and plainclothes detectives.
According to the law, the police may not arrest an individual for the fireworks unless they actually see them being lit.
“In addition, following the recent unrest, cops will not do more than disperse a crowd, so as to avoid confrontation,” they said.
The elected officials are “not helping either, with the anti-police rhetoric,” the source said. “The District Attorney has also made clear that most crimes will not be prosecuted.”
“In this climate, cops just cannot put themselves out there to help the law-abiding citizens, since they have no one backing them,” they said.
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Eastern Parkway:
Empire Boulevard near Schenectady Ave.
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This is disgusting and should finally be dealt with !!!
The police gotta step up and put and end to all this anarchy!!!
Full blame goes to De Blasio, Cuomo and all those blaming everything on cops, screaming to defund police
cops have their backs tied behind their back but get all the blame from everyone
they are today’s current scapegoat
call City Hall
Call Albany
Call your local government council
and do not attend a BLM protest…this situation and worse is where they are heading the country
We didnt elect him for nothing
It’s just fireworks
Maybe for u it’s just fireworks, but for me it’s my children lying in bed in fear every night, crying kids who cant fall asleep…and it just doesnt stop!!
A band-aid solution: use a white noise machine to drown out all sounds.
Also they are a fire hazard, I know someone whose house burned down because of fireworks nearby
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and that’s why I can’t sleep at night
????
Is someone directly aiming fireworks at my window air conditioner “just fireworks”?
If someone is old and has ptsd from war, or a child who is afraid of loud noises, or a child with special needs, or a person with insomnia, it’s not “just fireworks”
If you understand how things work, fireworks means lawlessness which means increased crime, etc.
I thought these firecrackers, sometimes at 3 am were only in my area of
Crown Heights, but I see it’s elsewhere in the neighbourhood and in other
parts of the city!. They are trying to provoke regular people. May
Moshiach come soon.
My physical therapist, who lives in the upper West Side, said the fireworks were going off there as well. Interestingly, she used to be the average liberal (though non-Jewish). She is now questioning the wisdom of having a Democrat in office.
a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged or been kept awake by illegal fireworks.
Need to smack these kids in face
not kids
They are not just fireworks. It is terrible…families are up to 1-3 am in the morning. This is the area by Rutland and Brooklyn. How can children sleep? Where is our quality of life??? The mayor has empowered the elements of the city that want to disobey the law. Youth roam the streets, looting, stealing. He has undercut, dismantled and disrespected the police. He is terrible for the quality of life in the city. I don’t understand –we are generally tax paying, law abiding citizens and we have no protection, no rights. It is time the whole, I mean the… Read more »
Like what is the deal?
THEY HAVE BEEN LOOTING MAKING BIG MONEY
So maybe instead of complaining and complaining, we unite as jews finally and do something? WE too can protest, we too can bombard our local officials with calls and demands. NOt sit at home and complain!
We have the same thing here in LA, fireworks and leftist idealouge for a mayor.
I heard them on this corner at around 8-8:30. Thinking it came from the playground by the PS (if it is open)
Better idea – let’s send them a social worker. Maybe that will get them to stop.
Everyone in CH, Please Call 911 right away when this is happening, Give them the Location that it is coming from, (Not the location that you are at) I know a few Lubavitchers that did that and the Police Did show up, although a few minutes later but its better calling and have them come late than not calling at all, Also if you know forsure that they are lighting fireworks from the Roof of a specific building then Call 911 right away and give them the Address to that building, Tell the dispatcher that there are people trespassing (and… Read more »
What can I do to influence the city to take this seriously?
Vote in 6 Days on June 23rd for Chaim Deutsch and Jesse Hamilton
Google who is my City Council and State Senator and Assembly Member
I’m telling you, America is right now, No-Man’s Land. There’s no law; there’s no order. It’s every man for himself. The Police is rendered useless here. These fireworks, the protests, the riots, De Blasios incompetence, the parks, the camps, its all leading to Moshiach, I tell you that. I thought I’d never see the day that America, considered to be a relatively stable country, would be in such a state of total havoc, up in arms with its citizens. A civil war is really possible right now. This is classic pre-ww2 material happening right now. There is nothing to stop… Read more »
As well for all those that live in Apartment rental buildings, If you hear the Roof Alarm go off (most apartment buildings have a loud roof alarm) If you hear the Roof Alarm & if it is common in your building that criminals go to the roof a lot, Then when hearing the Roof Alarm Call 911 right away to report people trespassing, hopefully the Police will respond before they get a chance to do their fireworks….
The Corner Building on Kingston & Lefferts is horrendous
What’s so hard to get?
Well, Israel isn’t having these problems, but their Covid-rate is steadily growing unfortunately…
A good idea to have the children less frightened by all the horrible blasts, booms and noise all night every night from the fireworks is. Tell the children how beautiful fireworks are, and it is a celebration, and the noise is just so there can be beautiful fireworks for everyone to see and enjoy. Obviously this does not take away from the fact that the thugs doing this is disgusting and the noise is not enjoyable at all and it does actually feel like we live on the front lines in a war zone, but just to keep the children… Read more »
as a celebration???
We’re talking 1, 2, 3, 4 AM.
we’re talking extremely loud, as in very very very very loud.
we’re talking kids who have huge sparks right outside their bedroom windows.
In theory it’s a good idea, if you have a kid with sensory issues or is highly sensitive it’s not so simple.
Until things get under control, but your kids or yourselves a white noise machine, and plug it in near your window. It’ll help avoid the kids getting startled in middle of their sleep, as there will be a constant white noise playing loud all night or day…..
call 311 every night fireworks are going off, the only way the people elected do anything these days is if they are harassed, i urge everyone to call 311 whenever they hear these fireworks.
Get police helicopters to help the ground police nab these animals.
Wait, we don’t have the money for that anymore. Thanks Defunders
Time for another photo op with the council members condemning these events.
In the meantime the police are very busy closing parks
His email address is [email protected]. I have emailed him for other issues in the past and he has been very helpful.
whats his title please?
City and country wants to defund police??? Nobody backs our police officers??? Then ask why police aren’t doing more to help you??? Enjoy the increase of your crime in your neighborhoods! Well deserved!
Mayors office and City council
the people doing these fireworks
and they are purposely doing it on this crazy level all over the city to show the lawlessness is in their hands
Firework for a month and countless hours aren’t cheap.
Who is paying for this supplies; who is selling/supplying; who is distributing them.
This is what should be investigated.
Other states fireworks are legal it’s not hard to get them and nyc can’t do anything about it cause nyc can’t tell other states what to do.
Antifa is funding the nightly fireworks.
The thugs are more than happy to oblige.
This too shall pass as the arrests start.
Come July fourth and there will be nary a fireworks…none of these thugs , not antifa, BLM, Soros, and the whole sorry a lot of liberals is patriotic to this great country.
They are Patriotic to themselves and their warped ideals.
We need Moshiach now
הנה לא ינום ולא ישן שומר ישראל
The whole sorry lot would like to see this great country go up in fire(works)
White noise won’t help…the fire works are too loud!!!! Right by my window….this is terrible!!!
So inconsiderate
IT SEEMS THAT THE MAYOR IS FOLLOWING THE SAME POLICY THAT DINKINS HAD DURING THE CROWN HEIGHTS RIOTS OF 1991, NAMELY AS I DIRECTLY QUOTE DINKINS “WE HAVE TO LET THEM VENT “. WHILE THE MAYOR IS SO WORRIED ABOUT PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS BEING OPEN FOR CHILDREN TO PLAY, HE HAS NO QUALMS ABOUT LETTING THESE DEGENERATES USE THESE PARKS DURING THE NIGHT TO SET OFF FIREWORKS. THERE IS NO USE IN CALLING 311 AS THEY WILL TELL YOU TO CALL 911. WHEN YOU CALL 911 THEY EXPECT YOU TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE FIREWORKS ARE HAPPENING. DO THEY EXPECT… Read more »
good thing we had solidarity march. now these low lives won’t keep us up at night. oh wait. they don’t give a hoot about your solidarity. they are laughing at your naivety.
We are in galus and Hashem is waking us up to beg for moshiach. Dont you see its right before moshiach and we got too comfortable in galus! The rebbe spoke about how close we are to moshiach but there are jews who are so comfortable in galus they are not wishing for moshiach. This sunday is the anniversary of when the spies were sent to tour israel by moshe. 40 days until tisha bav when their bad report made tisha bav a day of mourning. Lets beg hashem for moshiach
When I worked for the city (early 90’s), there was an incident where, behind 770, an African was caught stealing clothing from the Kollel gemach. So, what did the guys do? Vigilante justice. This got us negative publicity in the media. So, A co-worker (living in Bensonhurst) told me. “you know what your problem is? You guys are too overt.” I retorted,”So what do you do in your neighborhood?” “ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! We have the mafia patrolling our neighborhood. If anybody does something, 6 months later they find him dead on the Belt Parkway, and they wonder what happened… Read more »