Since I don't really want to talk about this anymore (and since I had just written a more detailed entry which got eaten by Tribe), I'm pasting in a post I put on a community bulletin board for those who are curious. Apologies for the unfamiliar references.

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Last Saturday, at about 7:15pm, while I was walking along the Navy
Street bike path towards the B61 bus stop, a group of kids on the
pedestrian overpass threw what may have been a bottle at me.

I felt the object shatter against my head and heard them yell, "White
b**tch!!" and laugh when I looked back at them.

I stumbled away too quickly to get a look at the fragments on the
ground and called 911 immediately and told them that I had been
attacked by young people who were throwing objects down at passers
by.

I felt blood in my hair and realized that my scalp had a large gash
in it and asked for an ambulance.

Police cars and an ambulance showed up at the bus stop at Park and
Navy within 5 minutes. I explained the incident to an officer, who
did not give me his name, though I gave him my information.

He asked what had hit me, and I didn't know because I wanted to get
away. But I said he could probably still find pieces of it on the
street. He did not give any indication that he was going to
investigate the matter further.

Anyway, the EMT took me to the Brooklyn Hospital ER where the
laceration was stapled together.

Healthwise, I'm OK at this point -- though I'm still pretty shaken up
about this incident, and am hoping that this group of kids hasn't
taken up the hobby of using cars, bikers, pedestrians, etc. as target
practice.

I had hoped that I'd learn more about whether or not the police found
these kids and at least talked to them, but when I called the 88th
Precinct today, I learned that no crime report had even been created
for this assault!!

There was only an "Aided Card", which simply showed that I
had been injured and aided by EMT.

In other words, I might have just tripped and fallen, as far as the
City is concerned.

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Unfortunately, this is an all too common trend in neighborhoods like mine where the neighborhood is gentrifying, and that is actively seeking development. To make the area appear more attractive, the NYPD artificially lowers the crime statistic by inaccurately reporting complaints and incidents.

For more info about this, see www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...t_-1.html

So that's the story.

As mentioned above, I'd prefer not to go over the above again, but feel free to ask questions about stuff I didn't cover. And, for the morbidly curious, I'll have the staples in through Monday. :->

In all of this, I have to say how apprciative -- indeed how touched -- I've been by the warmth and concern of my family and friends. I'm very thankful for that, and for the knowledge that, as bad as this was, it could have been a lot worse.

Lots of love and best holiday wishes!

C