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Far Rockaway is sometimes not very popular, unless you happen to catch the violent crimes and horrific tragedies which take place there.
Two two mothers sent their hardworking sons off to summer jobs on the [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Far+Rockaway"]Far Rockaway[/URL] beach, where the July sun burned as brightly as each teen's future.
[URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Patrick+Hernandez"]Patrick Hernandez[/URL], 18, was a few weeks short of escaping the dangerous streets of "The Rock," ready to start his freshman year of college on an upstate campus.
[URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Karon+Lenihan"]Karon Lenihan[/URL], 17, was working two jobs this summer - "a good boy," family-oriented and generous, according to his mom. His junior year of high school awaited
Their paths crossed as they worked cleaning the beach - and then again on Beach 16th St. after their July 10 shift ended, authorities say. A shotgun blast reverberated in the salt-scented air; Hernandez was left to die, and Lenihan was arrested for murder.
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The cities solutions to these acts? More Police. It isn't working, and the survaillence presense only helps maintain less murder in specific zones, as everyone knows of their presense.
[url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2008/07/08/2008-07-08_more_cops_community_recreation_after_roc.html]More cops, community recreation after Rockaway crime surge[/url] will give you more insite into what kind of programs are being done for this madness to stop.
Would it surprise you to learn that most of the murders that take place in 'The Rock', are actually done by young teenagers, merely for reputation?
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Is there any spillover into Inwood? I mean, I can't say I've read about a single incident in Inwood or happening to an Inwood resident lately. Though I have to admit with all the bad press Far Rock has been getting recently, I think I'd be concerned if I had children and lived in Inwood, too.
inwood is too far of a walk for anything to spill over, if you knew the layout of the area, you would understand why. maybe a break-in or 2, but thats about it. its really more people from inwood coming to hang out in far rockaway cause inwood is dead.
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Inwood is a small suburb on the Nassau County side. It part of the so called "5 towns" Lawrence,Cedarhurst,Hewlett,Woodmere,and Inwood. Inwood basically resembles an extension of Far Rockaway, while the other 4 towns are populated by some of the wealthiest people in Nassau County.
inwood is too far of a walk for anything to spill over, if you knew the layout of the area, you would understand why. maybe a break-in or 2, but thats about it. its really more people from inwood coming to hang out in far rockaway cause inwood is dead.
I have to disagree with you when you say there is no spillover. A lot of people from Far Rockaway have been sneaking over into #2 School in Inwood for years. Even the newspapers will tell you it's not just a break in or two in Inwood anymore. There have been shootings and stabbings happening more frequently in Inwood since the turn of the millenium, including on the block that I grew up on where a woman was stabbed while holding a baby in her arms. Believe me Inwood is not the way it used to be, it has absolutely changed for the worse. I don't even want to go back to that old neighborhood because it will be too depressing to see how much things have changed, and how little has lasted since I left ten years ago.
Inwood is a small suburb on the Nassau County side. It part of the so called "5 towns" Lawrence,Cedarhurst,Hewlett,Woodmere,and Inwood. Inwood basically resembles an extension of Far Rockaway, while the other 4 towns are populated by some of the wealthiest people in Nassau County.
Thank you...I had images of thugs shuttling back and forth between Far Rockaway, and Inwood, Manhattan.
They'd spend too much time on the subways to do much mischief.
Seagirt is ruff. I got a lot of hard looks last time I was down there. I saw a crowd gathering in the broad daylight around the front of one of those beach bungalows, someone was passed out on the ground, don't know from what. Looked like drama, I was out of there.
Seagirt is ruff. I got a lot of hard looks last time I was down there. I saw a crowd gathering in the broad daylight around the front of one of those beach bungalows, someone was passed out on the ground, don't know from what. Looked like drama, I was out of there.
That's my town. Been out there my whole life.
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