I guess the upcoming guns for cash program is a week late! It's a good thing we don't have a gang problem in this city. More fodder for the anti-gun talking heads.

 

 

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20120416/NJNEWS/304160016/Early-morning-homicide-New-Brunswick

Remsen ave - crappy area.....

Ahh. Throop street and Feaster Park. What memories...

 

I remember driving my taxi down Remsen ave (next to Throop) and being pulled over by cops who told me they would arrest me if they ever saw me driving down that street. Basically, the cops said that the only people in that neighborhood that use taxis are drug dealers.

Inevitably, the passenger in the back dumps his drugs in the taxi when you get pulled over, and the taxi gets impounded.

Glad I don't have that job in that town any more.

You can bet someone is going to get 80 bucks for the gun used in the shooting.

Remsen Avenue was BAD before some of you kids on the forum were even born! The ONLY thing that would clean it up would be a Philadelphia-style urban renewal with a explosive device like they used in the Phiily Hood!

Thankfully, going to school in NB doesn't require dealing with that specific area. I drove through there a while ago on my way to pick up a pizza. I've driven through murder zones in Newark and Camden, but this area had me just as, if not more jumpy. Scary stuff. You won't find me going through there ever again.