Williamsburg, NY - Bomb Squad Detonates 'Drano Bomb' |
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fileWilliamsburg, NY - The NYPD bomb squad detonated a suspected “Drano bomb” on a street in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, early Sunday.
The crude, improvised explosive device was safely blown up by the police unit shortly after it was spotted on the S. Third St. sidewalk, witnesses said.
“I’m really scared,” said Noah Starr, 29, a TV producer who lives nearby. “This is a very quiet block, a lot of families - it’s definitely not a place where you’d expect a bomb to go off.”
Cops and firefigthers closed off the area surrounding the suspicious device and did not let residents return to their homes until 4 a.m.
Investigators were not certain whether the device - a combination of the Drano drain-cleaning liquid and aluminum placed in a bottle - was a prank or a legitimate cleaning mixture left outside by accident.
“I feel really unsafe now,” said Kristen Alongi, 20, who lives on the block. “I guess this is just another wakeup call. People who say that this stuff can’t happen in their neighborhood, but it can.”
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Oct 26, 2009 at 08:46 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
I wonder why they didn't just cover up this story. Isn't it their job these days to just silence any news related to crimes? Because hey ever since bloomberg we live in the safest city
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Oct 26, 2009 at 08:43 AM 4 more years for bloomy Says:Report as Inappropriate
We must let him run this city into the ground the next 4 years.
Hey look, crime is just plummeting
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Oct 26, 2009 at 09:18 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ We must let him run this city into the ground the next 4 years.
Hey look, crime is just plummeting ”
It is a can of drano people. Classic case of paranoia and crying wolf. When want to find bombs on every corner everything looks like a bomb.
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Oct 26, 2009 at 09:24 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ I wonder why they didn't just cover up this story. Isn't it their job these days to just silence any news related to crimes? Because hey ever since bloomberg we live in the safest city ”
Who are the >they< to do this cover up.
I've seen many worse administrators that Bloomy. He's doing a bad job compared to who?
Perhaps we need deferred maintenance and riots and highways falling down and NYC built Yankee Stadium to remind people what our other choices are.
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Oct 26, 2009 at 09:47 AM Joseph Says:Report as Inappropriate
I never knew Williamsburg can be defined as "trendy".
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Oct 26, 2009 at 11:05 AM duh! Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ I never knew Williamsburg can be defined as "trendy". ”
Wake up, williamsburg is one of the most trendiest neghbourhoods in NY
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Oct 26, 2009 at 11:14 AM shimon Says:Report as Inappropriate
"trendy" means high rents and high costs of living for the same apt as 20 years ago.
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Oct 26, 2009 at 10:35 AM Henoch Says:Report as Inappropriate
Joseph - Check out North of Broadway, and especially the North streets. It is possibly the largest 'trendy' community in the WORLD.
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Oct 26, 2009 at 07:02 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
The parts of Williamsburg North of Broadway and especially north of Grand street are considered trendy. Many young beatnicks have moved into the same apartments their great grandparents strove to escape from.
They seem to spend all day online in a coffee bar (free internet, all using Apple notebooks). The work ethic is not very strong because they feel they don't need money (as long as the trust fund is still sending the checks). They are very often well educated and of Jewish parents.
I have seen them wander into Natan Borlam's.
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Oct 26, 2009 at 09:01 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ The parts of Williamsburg North of Broadway and especially north of Grand street are considered trendy. Many young beatnicks have moved into the same apartments their great grandparents strove to escape from.
They seem to spend all day online in a coffee bar (free internet, all using Apple notebooks). The work ethic is not very strong because they feel they don't need money (as long as the trust fund is still sending the checks). They are very often well educated and of Jewish parents.
I have seen them wander into Natan Borlam's. ”
You have a lot of stereotyping going against the people who move into nice areas of Williamsburg. Not everyone is a "beatnick" who lack work ethic living off trust funds. In fact many of the young residents move in from the Mid West and are college educated professionals who work in high paying jobs in the city. Manhattan is very expensive and not many neighborhoods are geared for the new urban professional, so they move in to neighborhoods like Williamsburg, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights where trendy spots are just as good.
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Oct 27, 2009 at 07:42 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ The parts of Williamsburg North of Broadway and especially north of Grand street are considered trendy. Many young beatnicks have moved into the same apartments their great grandparents strove to escape from.
They seem to spend all day online in a coffee bar (free internet, all using Apple notebooks). The work ethic is not very strong because they feel they don't need money (as long as the trust fund is still sending the checks). They are very often well educated and of Jewish parents.
I have seen them wander into Natan Borlam's. ”
I happen to bump in to many of the new neighbors Norths and south's, they appear to be very nice people, and working people. Many love to party a lot and live the hipster style of living, they cause no problems to the neighbors, no crime, no noise.
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Oct 27, 2009 at 10:58 AM Aryeh Says:Report as Inappropriate
Actually, this type of bomb can spread glass shrapnel, poisonous chlorine gas and hydrochloric acid droplets for a quarter of a mile, this is NOT a joke and NOT a legitimate cleaning mixture left on the street. There are many young parents with babies in this area, including heimishe people who own the buildings. 8 days ago, a terrorist detonated an identical device on a Baltimore bus. On June 22nd, someone dropped an identical device onto two little boys on South 8th and Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, causing severe caustic burns RM"L. No arrests were made at that time.