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A cricket player was struck by lightning this afternoon in Marine Park!

Patrick Gibson, 41, was barely breathing, legs badly burned and his clothes were totally destroyed when he was hit by lighting collecting cricket off the field.

No word yet if this man survived. Local EMT’s say the man was DOA.

Check out this November 2008 article of the NYTimes highlighting the cricket players – Isolation Is Pretty Splendid

Coverage:
NY Daily News

Residents of E38th street won an unsettling victory last night. 90% of 38th street had a meeting last night with about 55 people. To ask/confront the future owner with questions and concerns.

One of the crowds main concerns was their property values. The buyer stated that she already has a day care center and her values have not been affected. The crowd was not moved by her statement and stuck to their position that the day care center would affect the values.

Because it was going to be a “family day care center” someone had to live there by law, her parents would have been living there.

The buyer has been “turned off” by the block and now does not want to be on the block or her parents to be there. The buyers option are: buy then sell the house, keep it and rent it out, or go bail out of their contract.

Some of the issues brought up:
As to the health of the elderly person living next door in the attached home. She stated that she cant take responsibly for someones health.

Before everyone goes HOLY BEJESUS and keeps their kids locked up. I will start out with there is a “happy” ending.

Here is the story:

I was at Marine Park with my 2 children Saturday morning between 10:15 and 11:45. My 6 year old son went to the big swings to play and I stayed by the slide with my 2 year old (about 20 feet away) and I looked over at him every 2 minutes or so. While at the swings, a man approached my son asking for his help to find his lost son. My son being the friendly kid, went to help. My son said that his son was by the big girls (there were cheerleaders practicing in the school yard of Marie Park JH that day). My son heard me calling his name when I could not find him and he started calling mommy back ( unfortunately, I did not hear him). When that happened, the man squeezed him, said he was his child and locked him in the red swing (that is the handicapped swing the straps) and left. By the time I found my son, he was crying and frightened. I looked for the man and he was gone. I went home and called the 63 and was told I had to come in to file a report. I went in that evening and was told by a female officer that is was a case of “mistaken identity” and sent on my way.

Not happy with that response, I contacted Councilman Lew Fidler’s office and spoke to his Chief of Staff, Reeves yesterday morning. Within 20 minutes I was on the phone with Deputy Inspector Cangiarella who personally arranged for us to come down yesterday and file a report. I commend the Councilman’s office, DI Cangiarella and his detectives for seeing the severity of this matter and making it a priority. I was told that the 61 will be notified as well as the community organizations.

Please help get the word out to other MP and GB residents so they can be that much more watchful of the precious children while enjoying the summer fun. I get the chills and feel sick every time I think of the what “ifs” and I don’t want any other parent feeling this way or worse if this animal is successful in his next attempt.

We get the chills here and on upon reading your story we were the first to say HOLY BEJESUS and wanted to lock up kids. We are glad nothing happened.

We are going to be weary of adults alone in a playground.

Via NY1

A city police officer lost part of his leg Tuesday after two vehicles slammed into each other in Brooklyn.

Investigators say the vehicles were traveling in opposite directions on Avenue U in Marine Park when it happened.

According to police, a 2000 Mercury Mountaineer was traveling eastbound when it made a left turn onto East 34th Street and hit a 2008 Mazda CX7. Both vehicles then jumped the curb, forcing one to hit the plainclothes officer, who was standing with three others on the sidewalk.

The officer was taken to Kings County Hospital, where his left leg was amputated below the knee.

Residents say the intersection is known to be dangerous.

“They’ve had a lot, a lot of accidents here in the past 18 years,” said one local. “I’ve always thought that they should have a traffic light because they try to, because of the park, I think they just run through to get to the next light, which is on 36th Street.”

The officer is a five and a half year veteran and a member of the narcotics division.

Lefts in general on Avenue U are extremely dangerous, more dangerous in Marine Park because everyone is doing 50mph and if someone goes to make a left they cant judge.

1658 East 38 St is an attached home between Quentin and Avenue P is currently on the market but currently in contract.

To date, their activities have included: getting a letter from Marty Golden to the NYC Dept of Health discouraging day care licensing; getting signatures for our petition from all residents on the block. They have been in contact with Lew Fidlers office and are awaiting a response.

At this point, the 80 year old woman in the attached house is ill with high blood pressure over all this.

Here is a copy of a petition that they are circulating:

The modest frame attached home at 1658 East 38 Street (between Quentin Road and Avenue P) is currently “in contract” and the soon-to-be new owners want to open a day care center. This will NEGATIVELY impact the quality of life of residents of East 38 Street and surrounding blocks. The center will bring noisy/rowdy children and mounds of trash. Parents will double and triple-park their cars during morning drop-offs and afternoon pick-ups, parking will become even more limited, and traffic will increase. Do we want our children playing on the sidewalk with speeding cars whizzing by? NO!!!

And the presence of a commercial business on a residential block will LOWER YOUR PROPERTY VALUES!

We, the residents of Marine Park, must take action immediately to prevent this day care center from opening and protect our block! All Marine Park residents must lend their support because if this center opens on East 38 Street, another one can open on your block!

Local elected officials and the Marine Park Civic Association have successfully stopped other day care centers from opening on Marine Park’s residential blocks. We can stop this day care center too!

There are several other day care facilities nearby so we don’t need one on East 38 Street!

Sign this petition to voice your opposition to this day care center and to tell our elected officials (City Councilman Lew Fidler, State Senator Marty Golden, State Assemblyman Alan Maisel, State Senator Carl Kruger, and Congressman Anthony Weiner) to stop this from happening!

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