Photo By "Kevin"This house is the scourge, the bane, the problem child of the 2200 N. 6th St. block and recently a neighborhood council resolution was passed about it. Well, yesterday...
...the nearby "shot spotter" was activated. Somebody--rival dope dealers, we all assume--fired at the house. The main problem with dealers shooting dealers is that citizens and their houses get in the crossfire.
Our neighborhood is getting FED UP. We've passed a resolution. We've sent a copy of the resolution to our city council person. We've blogged about it. We patiently call police, over and over. What does it take to get the political will in Mineapolis to DO SOMETHING about this hotbed of blatant, open air criminal activity?
Is there some high-ranking politician who is willing--as members of the neighborhood were today--to gather across the street in our vehicles, and stand around chatting, and just discourage the drug traffic for about 25 minutes by our presence? Is there some politician who cares to sit out there for hours and hours, and bring political attention to this problem, and force a resolution so we can all LIVE IN PEACE and stop having GUNFIRE be a frequent part of our lives?
Meanwhile, a very nice house came on the market just across the street, a real diamond in the rough. FAT CHANCE OF ANYBODY BUYING IT WITH ALL THOSE GANGSTERS RUINING THE BLOCK.
6 comments:
Thanks for revisiting this.
In all my years in Hawthorne, no address has infuriated me like this one has. The only way to describe it is a gang safe house. Have you ever seen all the dealers and gang bangers up on Lyndale? At some point during the day they all end up at this house. We have been living with this for years now.
The rocks through my windows were bad enough, but what really got me was the day after the first shooting at this address when the bullets came through my elderly neighbors house. I was on the phone with her and she was crying. It broke my heart. No one should have to live with this crap, but when it comes to the elderly people in the neighborhood having to deal with this stuff the rage inside me is almost too much. This poor woman not only has this house on one side of her, but two more on the other side - all owner occupied and all dealing.
Yesterday, when I was talking to her, she told me she hasn't been out to her mailbox in over a year. She sends her son outside to pick up the mail just so she doesn't have to endure the stares from the a-holes next door. Of course there's also the "racist bitch" comments they yell at her and recently the grandmother who owns this house turned around and stuck her ass in the air when my neighbor was out in her yard.
God help me. This place has to go.
To Kevin: Thanks for all that and keep the information coming.
To Anonymous Poster: One comment received and discarded which appeared to have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Holy Sh$%! We just bought the house across the street and close in a few weeks. What can we do to clean up the neighborhood?
Is that a fine old three story house and in the upper story, there's a window with a pane missing, and the missing pane is replaced with part of a light fixture? I may have looked at it with a real estate agent.
Look, you've come to the right neighborhood. We're turning this place around. You've got friends and allies all around you right within a few blocks, you just haven't met them, yet. Some of them will be at the Hawthorne Housing Committee meeting; 7 PM the first Wednesday of the month at the Farview Park building.
The deal is you should be in touch with your Hawthorne neighborhood association, get to meetings, forward your information here about cleaning up the block, even start your own blog. (One lady on the same block has her own blog, "Holding Pond But Not Holding Us Down," which is in my blog roll)
Look up the Hawthorne Neighborhood Association website, go to their (our) office on North Emerson, talk to Housing Director Jeff Skrenes...keep coming to this blog, commenting, adding info.
But if you want to clean up the block, it's a lot of calling 911 and 311, mostly.
Our realtor also said that the neighnorhood is starting to clean up. She told me about the elderly woman and gave me some specifics about other neighbors. My realtor attends those city meetings and has invited me to start attending. We're all trying to clean up the city and need to be proactive. Thanks for all the input - I will start blogging, etc. for the cause!
If you start a blog, come back here and let me know so I can put you on my blog roll. Feel free to add comments, etc., to posts that capture your interest.
SEE YOU AT WEDNESDAY'S MEETING, OK!? OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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