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Not Even Carroll Gardens Is "Safe"
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John Del Signore
Published Jun 15, 2010
Modified Jun 15, 2010
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Second Place in Carroll Gardens is one of the quietest, quaintest streets (places?) in Brooklyn, but one 30-year-old woman wants you to know looks can be deceiving. She was walking her dog around 3 a.m. on May 30th when she was nearly raped near her stoop, by a man who followed her as she returned to her apartment. "When I saw him at the gate, I thought s—, here we go," she tells Brooklyn Paper. "I walked away from my door because I didn’t want him to force me inside. I know it can get a lot worse if they get you inside."
The assailant, described as a 5-feet-6 Hispanic man, about 23 years old, with short, dark hair, punched her in the face, threw her down outside the building, and tried to tear off her underwear, but the victim was able to avert the worst by scratching his arms and screaming as loud as she could. Fortunately, her neighbors came out and the man ran away, but he's still at large.
As the woman points out, "You think that this doesn’t happen here, but it did." If her story has you thinking, here's info on one of the most popular Female Awareness/Self Defense Courses in NYC.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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