The City kickstarts this year’s Operation Impact (a crime reduction program), by holding a press conference at Harlem’s 28th precinct, an area with three homicides this year as opposed to over 100 homicides in previous years.
{New York Times}
This couple thought they wanted to buy a brownstone in Harlem, but then figured out they needed a least one million to do that, so instead they bought a 16-room mansion in the Bronx for $675,000.
{New York Times}
The work of famed Harlem artist Jacob Lawrence is on display at the Whitney right now.
{New York Sun}
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narmer
December 27, 2007
Have you noticed that “Operation Impact” Officers are being placed in areas that are or has been Gentrified and are for the protection of the new neighborhood residents.
Crime is Opportunistic so how can there be a decline, the real reduction is in how the Police now reclassify certain crimes from Felonies to Misdemeanor’s and that is how the “Stats” become lower.