This concerns me. I am out and about often on Cookman at night and rarely see any police on foot patrol. I see patrol cars cruise by on occasion but no foot patrol, which would help with mugging attempts I think (and overall crime in general)
Am I missing them, or are they truly lacking at night in the downtown area? Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "Hinge" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:42:25 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: 2003 Best comment so far. Right on the money. One of my co-workers wife's expressed concern about using the parking meters late in the evening. She's feels like a sitting duck in the dark while getting out her wallet, and having to hold her cell phone in one hand as a flashlight because the keypad is hard to see (I see people doing that every day). Is that not a very valid concern? It's not much different than the issue on my 200 block. Just this past weekend my next door neighbor started a conversation asking if I felt safe in reference to parking around the block, which makes the 3 occupied houses on my block look empty. Nobody is parking on 1st Ave, and the city refuses to budge about easing year round, till midnight parking. What happens when one of our houses gets broken into because we now look like easy targets? It's already happened once to my next door neighbor. Somebody climbed over his fence, into his locked back yard, and stole 2 bikes that were locked up back there. My downstairs neighbor, who's pretty tough, has also expressed concerns related to our abandoned street. That's why we are pressing our luck and parking out front. So far, no tickets. --- In [email protected], Dennis Dubrow <traderdube@...> wrote: > > Many of you are personalizing the situation. The fact is that if you talk to > the business owners who rely on their business to live, they are down. Some > of them are holding out hope that in the long run the parking will pay off. > Before the parking went into effect I know a couple of downtown residents > that parked 2 or 3 cars on Cookman, leaving them there for days at a time. > Similarly, we used to watch the owners/employees of stores park their cars in > front of their stores all day, yet they still complained they had no > business. And while we all know that the riots of July 4 are the traditional > date that started the decay of Asbury as a downtown shopping mecca, it was > the malls and free parking that had an equally bad affect on downtowns in Red > Bank and Long Branch as well as Asbury. And it has been mentioned, where is > the marketing for downtown AP? There is none, other than a weekly huge email > from the city, that basically promotes bars and restaurants. All, 100% of > the business owners I know and have recently spoken with about the parking > are/were in favor of the paid parking, but that doesn't change the fact that > they are going to have a helluva time coming up with the Nov 1 rent check. > > And there is another issue that is not being discussed. The business owners > and their employees who work after dark, who work until 10PM and later. They > now have to walk 3-4-5 blocks to their cars at night. I have been told that > one person has already been accosted and robbed while walking to their car. > While paid parking is a fruitful plan, the fruit needs to start out as seeds, > or it's artificial; the implementation of park; The Parking Plan, is either > non-existent, or artificial. > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
