Brooklyn, NY – The NYPD says that over the next three years it plans to place eleven surveillance cameras on lampposts in Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, and Coney Island.
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BROOKLYNDAILY.com (http://bit.ly/18Eehpi) is reporting that the initiative is credited to Councilman Domenic Recchia (D-Coney Island) who said that the strategic locations were chosen from crime rate and terrorism risk analysis performed by the NYPD.
The announcement has garnered approval from most residents and local leaders, including CB10 member, June Johnson, who believes drug traffic will be reduced when two cameras are installed on Fifth Avenue at the corners of 72nd and 79th streets.
However, others, like Pastor Harvey Von Harten of Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church in Coney Island, questioned the plan which will see two units installed at Mermaid Avenue and W. 24th St. and Neptune Avenue and W. Eighth Street.
Von Harten said there are currently no serious problems on the block, and that he doesn’t “know why they picked this area.”
Does anyone know whatever happened to the plan to put cameras in Boro Park? It got quiet very fast.