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October 28, 2010
Talk about a downward dog
The Brooklyn Paper
by Thomas Tracy
Last week's Forest City-owned Atlantic Center/Atlantic Terminal crime trifecta might help explain why crime is spiking in the area despite the de-population of the Atlantic Yards footprint, which the faulty Atlantic Yards Blight Study erroneously claimed was the source of local lawbreaking.
Early am shopper
A burglar broke into the crime-riddled Atlantic Center Mall on Oct. 20, but was arrested before he could take anything.
The 30-year-old was caught on the second floor of the mall on Atlantic Avenue between Fort Greene Place and S. Portland Avenue at 2:32 am, yet it remained unclear how the crook got inside.
Payless pinch
Three teenage footwear fashionistas raided the Payless Shoes inside the Atlantic Terminal Mall on Oct. 19.
Workers said the teens entered the Flatbush Avenue store between Hanson Place and Atlantic Avenue at 11:55 am and began putting more than a dozen pairs of shoes into a plastic bag they had brought with them.
They then stormed out, scratching a guard’s arm as he tried to detain them.
Shoe sneak
A real heel rifled through a woman’s handbag on Oct. 18 as she tried on footwear inside the DSW inside the Atlantic Terminal Mall on Flatbush Avenue.
The woman claimed that no one came near her bag as she shopped inside the store between Hanson Place and Atlantic Avenue at 6 pm. Yet, an hour later, she realized her iPad, Blackberry and camera had been taken.
Posted by eric at October 28, 2010 8:26 AM