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Atlantic frantic!
Locals scramble as cops investigate threat
By Julianne McShane
and Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Paper
Cops cuffed a man who
caused an hours-long shutdown
of parts of Atlantic Avenue
on March 19, after he
barricaded himself inside a
nearby Court Street building
claiming to have a gun —
which police later discovered
was an imitation pistol.
Officers booked the suspect
— whom a cop described
as emotionally disturbed
— shortly after 2 pm,
on the eighth floor of the office
and residential building
between State Street and Atlantic
Avenue that he locked
himself inside.
Prior to apprehending him,
authorities cordoned off three
blocks of the avenue between
Boerum Place and Clinton
Street as they investigated
the threat.
Cops transported the
man to a local hospital following
his arrest, accord-
Photo by Colin Mixson
Cops barricaded Atlantic Avenue between Boerum
Place and Clinton Street after a man claiming to be
armed locked himself inside a nearby building.
cluding the YMCA at 225
Atlantic Ave., whose patrons
cops escorted out through a
rear entrance on State Street
after locking the facility’s
main entrance on the avenue
around 9 am, according
to a witness who declined to
give her name.
Police also closed the main
Court Street entrance to the
Trader Joe’s store near Atlantic
Avenue, according to
an employee, who said shoppers
continued to browse its
aisles as chaos unfolded outside.
“The freaky thing about
it is everybody acting normal,
even though there’s a
guy across the street with a
gun,” said Dominique Cortes.
“Everybody’s more concerned
with getting their groceries
than getting shot.”
The drama in fact made
for an ideal shopping experience,
according to one
Downtowner, who claimed
he’d never seen the normally
bustling grocer so blissfully
barren.
“It’s completely calm and
empty,” said Marc Easton.
“There are no lines, the aisles
are clear, it’s not your typical
Trader Joe’s experience.”
ing to a Police Department
spokesman.
Authorities responding to
the incident also barred the
Atlantic Avenue entrances to
some nearby buildings, in-
ON THE RADIO
Lifelong local talks city living
By Moses Jefferson
Brooklyn Paper
Will the real Brooklynites
please stand up?!
Brooklyn Paper Radio this
week celebrated those native
Kings Countians who stuck
around as the better borough
evolved over the decades, with
help from a lifelong local who
just released a book about how
to survive — and thrive —
in the city.
Park Slope born-and-bred
journalist Jake Dobkin, the cofounder
of website Gothamist,
joined co-hosts Anthony Rotunno
and Johnny Kunen in
studio to share tales from his
new book “Ask A Native New
Yorker,” which features dozens
of Dobkin’s popular columns
of the same name that
his digital news site published
over the past 16 years.
Dobkin framed the discussion
by noting that he defines
a native as someone born in
the city, who chooses to live
out the majority of his or her
days in the five boroughs —
and to die here, too.
“The natives are a very
hearty species. Half of us
are going to die in our apartments
because we got a good
deal,” he said.
There are various ways
New Yorkers gird their loins
for a lifetime of city living,
but one thing that Dobkin,
the Downtown born-and-bred
Kunen — who is begrudgingly
still considered a native despite
defecting Brooklyn for
Staten Island — and the nonnative
Rotunno — who spent
the last decade living locally
after growing up upstate —
all agreed that true natives
share is an ability to cope
with change.
“I don’t ever want to be
like those old cranky New
Yorkers that think the city
was so much better 20 years
ago,” Dobkin said. “It’s ridiculous,
the city has always been
in flux — since the Dutch arrived
and displaced the Native
Americans, and then the
English arrived and displaced
the Dutch.”
During the broadcast, the
trio honed in on one such
looming change that could
affect thousands of Brooklynites
and countless more city
dwellers — the implementation
of a congestion-pricing
toll levied on motorists who
drive into a designated swath
of Manhattan — which could
become law as soon as April
1, if a provision calling for
the scheme stays in the state
budget that Gov. Cuomo must
sign by then.
Advocates for congestion
pricing — money raised from
which would allegedly exclusively
fund the beleaguered,
state-run Metropolitan Transportation
Authority — claim
the billions in annual revenue
it generates will result
in much-needed upgrades
to the city’s subway and rail
systems, as well as new bus
routes, according to proponent
Kate Slevin of the Regional
Plan Assocation, who called
in to discuss the proposal with
our hosts and Dobkin.
But to hear our cohosts’
and Dobkin’s thoughts on the
scheme, you’ll have to tune in
to the whole show .
Brooklyn Paper Radio can
be found on BrooklynPaper.
com, iTunes , and Stitcher .
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