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August 10, 2007
Ratner robbed at Atlantic Yards
Headlining The Brooklyn Paper police blotter this week is the robbery at Atlantic Yards, which occurred sometime between "1:30 pm on Aug. 1 and 9 am on Aug. 3:"
One of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards construction sites was robbed of hundreds of dollars in equipment, cops said.
According to the police report, Forest City Ratner Companies said that unknown perps entered the construction site — on Pacific Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues — between 1:30 pm on Aug. 1 and 9 am on Aug. 3 and stole two $300 saws, two $300 drill sets, a $500 generator, and a $400 hammer.
It is unclear why no one apparently noticed the alleged crime for most of the day Wednesday and all of Thursday before it was reported to the 78th Precinct on Friday morning.
The company official who reported the alleged burglary told The Brooklyn Paper that he could not speak to the press about the reported incident.
NoLandGrab: With the dozens of cameras located in the Atlantic Yards footprint, you'd think that the perps were caught on film or something. Or are the cameras meant to intimidate footprint property owners and pesky photogs?
We don't know what a "$400 hammer" is, but it sure hearkens back to the '70s and the $436 hammer from the Pentagon procurement scandal.
Posted by lumi at August 10, 2007 9:44 AM