Riverbay cracking down on drug activity in Co-op
By Michael Horowitz
Co-op City's Public Safety Department, working in conjunction with the NYPD, has been cracking down on narcotics activity in the local community.
Since July, Lt. Raymond Duran, commander of Public Safety's Detective Unit, has joined NYPD investigators in executing warrants on the 14th floor of Building 23, where four adults were arrested on drug-related charges, and on the eighth floor of Building 18, where two adults have been arrested on drug-related charges.
The first of the drug raids, on July 23, involved a 19-year-old male who was arrested in a Building 18 apartment. The same individual was arrested three months later at his Building 18 apartment, along with a 49-year-old female.
A third raid, on Nov. 25, resulted in the arrests of four adults in a 14th-floor apartment in Building 23.
A management spokesman, who wished to remain unidentified, said the Riverbay Corporation is determined to pursue eviction proceedings against those arrested on drug-related charges.
In response to questions, the management spokesman said, “We don't think that we have to wait for a conviction on criminal charges to move to get these people out of Co-op City. We are working with a unit in the Bronx District Attorney's Office that specializes in the evictions of those who commit crimes.”
The management spokesman stressed, “We think that we are within our rights to seek the eviction of those who are charged with felony crimes. We also think that we are within our rights to seek the eviction of those who commit repeated violations of other portions of the penal code. For example, I think that we can move successfully to evict families responsible for repeated quality-of-life crimes, such as urinating or defecating in public places.”
Co-op City's Public Safety Department, working in conjunction with the NYPD, has been cracking down on narcotics activity in the local community.
Since July, Lt. Raymond Duran, commander of Public Safety's Detective Unit, has joined NYPD investigators in executing warrants on the 14th floor of Building 23, where four adults were arrested on drug-related charges, and on the eighth floor of Building 18, where two adults have been arrested on drug-related charges.
The first of the drug raids, on July 23, involved a 19-year-old male who was arrested in a Building 18 apartment. The same individual was arrested three months later at his Building 18 apartment, along with a 49-year-old female.
A third raid, on Nov. 25, resulted in the arrests of four adults in a 14th-floor apartment in Building 23.
A management spokesman, who wished to remain unidentified, said the Riverbay Corporation is determined to pursue eviction proceedings against those arrested on drug-related charges.
In response to questions, the management spokesman said, “We don't think that we have to wait for a conviction on criminal charges to move to get these people out of Co-op City. We are working with a unit in the Bronx District Attorney's Office that specializes in the evictions of those who commit crimes.”
The management spokesman stressed, “We think that we are within our rights to seek the eviction of those who are charged with felony crimes. We also think that we are within our rights to seek the eviction of those who commit repeated violations of other portions of the penal code. For example, I think that we can move successfully to evict families responsible for repeated quality-of-life crimes, such as urinating or defecating in public places.”
Sh!tty situation here
By Michael Horowitz
Riverbay Executive General Manager Vernon Cooper, this week, promised action aimed at stopping vandals and vagrants who have been responsible for major messes near the the News office in the Dreiser Loop Shopping Center and in scattered stairwells and hallways throughout Co-op City.
Cooper said that he intended to see if security cameras in the Dreiser Loop Shopping center could be repositioned to cover the lower level of the center, which houses three churches, a synagogue, a health Center, a postal substation, a shoe-repair store, and a lawyer's office, in addition to the News.
The Executive General Manager added that he would be in touch with the Public Safety Department with a view toward increasing night-time patrols in the lower level of the Dreiser Loop Shopping Center.
The lower level of the Section 1 shopping center seems to have become a magnet for young people and vagrants who hang out after the shopping center and its bathroom close.
“We have 600 security cameras in the community, so we are able to track large areas of Co-op City to guard against all kinds of crimes, including quality-of-life crimes,” Cooper said. “We have plans in the works for the installation of 600 more cameras in Co-op City. The additional cameras will markedly improve security in the community, but, of course, all areas of the community will not be covered. It's impossible to have security cameras on every floor of every stairwell in Co-op City.”
Cooper added, “The reality is that we're an open community. Under the circumstances, it's impossible to control everyone who comes into the community. Of course, we're trying to limit quality-of-life crimes, but there's no way that we're going to catch everyone who commits a quality-of-life crimes. As a deterrent, we plan to insist that those caught committing quality-of-life crimes be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Following the recent arrests of youths who were caught urinating on apartment doors in Building 17, Public Safety Chief Frank Apollo stated, “…When there is a complaint that is affecting the quality of life for our cooperators, we will insure that is investigated aggressively by utilizing all the resources that our department has at its disposal. We will not allow the anti-social behavior of a select few to run the quality of life for hundreds of our residents.”
Riverbay Executive General Manager Vernon Cooper, this week, promised action aimed at stopping vandals and vagrants who have been responsible for major messes near the the News office in the Dreiser Loop Shopping Center and in scattered stairwells and hallways throughout Co-op City.
Cooper said that he intended to see if security cameras in the Dreiser Loop Shopping center could be repositioned to cover the lower level of the center, which houses three churches, a synagogue, a health Center, a postal substation, a shoe-repair store, and a lawyer's office, in addition to the News.
The Executive General Manager added that he would be in touch with the Public Safety Department with a view toward increasing night-time patrols in the lower level of the Dreiser Loop Shopping Center.
The lower level of the Section 1 shopping center seems to have become a magnet for young people and vagrants who hang out after the shopping center and its bathroom close.
“We have 600 security cameras in the community, so we are able to track large areas of Co-op City to guard against all kinds of crimes, including quality-of-life crimes,” Cooper said. “We have plans in the works for the installation of 600 more cameras in Co-op City. The additional cameras will markedly improve security in the community, but, of course, all areas of the community will not be covered. It's impossible to have security cameras on every floor of every stairwell in Co-op City.”
Cooper added, “The reality is that we're an open community. Under the circumstances, it's impossible to control everyone who comes into the community. Of course, we're trying to limit quality-of-life crimes, but there's no way that we're going to catch everyone who commits a quality-of-life crimes. As a deterrent, we plan to insist that those caught committing quality-of-life crimes be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Following the recent arrests of youths who were caught urinating on apartment doors in Building 17, Public Safety Chief Frank Apollo stated, “…When there is a complaint that is affecting the quality of life for our cooperators, we will insure that is investigated aggressively by utilizing all the resources that our department has at its disposal. We will not allow the anti-social behavior of a select few to run the quality of life for hundreds of our residents.”
Editor: ‘Just call me the sh!t spotter
By Michael Horowitz
Three times in the last four months, I have found feces near my office in the lower level of the Dreiser Loop Shopping Center in Co-op City.
Three times, I have had to arrange to have Co-op City Maintenance workers clean it up. One time, several months ago, the workers had to wear masks while cleaning up the mess.
Last Monday morning, while walking down the stairs to my office, I found some of what was left on a stairwell leading to my office. As you can imagine, I felt a sense of revulsion.
Almost equally disconcerting, I was told that I was the first one to report the disgusting residue that I called the Public Safety Department about on Monday afternoon.
A number of weeks ago, I also found feces while walking down to my office on another Monday.
Several months ago, excrement greeted me when I reached the outside of door to my office.
In recent months, shareholders have been told that what I have found near my office, on three separate occasions, was surprisingly common in some stairwells and some hallways in the local community.
Vernon Cooper, Co-op City's executive general manager, said, after the first report that the News covered, that there are scattered sites in the community where vagrants and youths hang out and leave evidence of their encounters in their wake.
A number of building stairwells, in recent months, have been littered with urine, excrement, blunts for the wrapping of narcotics, and liquor bottles.
Civic activist Arthur Tub, in a recent interview, described the problem of youths hanging out in stairwells as a matter that's been of concern in the local community for more than a decade.
In recent weeks, the News has reported about problems associated with a vagrant sleeping in a stairwell at 100 Bentley Place and youths hanging out in a stairwell at 2400 Hunter Avenue.
In both cases, the shareholders reporting the problem to the News said that those responsible left major messes in their wake.
Three times in the last four months, I have found feces near my office in the lower level of the Dreiser Loop Shopping Center in Co-op City.
Three times, I have had to arrange to have Co-op City Maintenance workers clean it up. One time, several months ago, the workers had to wear masks while cleaning up the mess.
Last Monday morning, while walking down the stairs to my office, I found some of what was left on a stairwell leading to my office. As you can imagine, I felt a sense of revulsion.
Almost equally disconcerting, I was told that I was the first one to report the disgusting residue that I called the Public Safety Department about on Monday afternoon.
A number of weeks ago, I also found feces while walking down to my office on another Monday.
Several months ago, excrement greeted me when I reached the outside of door to my office.
In recent months, shareholders have been told that what I have found near my office, on three separate occasions, was surprisingly common in some stairwells and some hallways in the local community.
Vernon Cooper, Co-op City's executive general manager, said, after the first report that the News covered, that there are scattered sites in the community where vagrants and youths hang out and leave evidence of their encounters in their wake.
A number of building stairwells, in recent months, have been littered with urine, excrement, blunts for the wrapping of narcotics, and liquor bottles.
Civic activist Arthur Tub, in a recent interview, described the problem of youths hanging out in stairwells as a matter that's been of concern in the local community for more than a decade.
In recent weeks, the News has reported about problems associated with a vagrant sleeping in a stairwell at 100 Bentley Place and youths hanging out in a stairwell at 2400 Hunter Avenue.
In both cases, the shareholders reporting the problem to the News said that those responsible left major messes in their wake.
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