Greenwich Village ‘hostage’ situation ends after Post exposes rowdies

Highschool college students trespass on West thirteenth St. brandishing toy weapons.
Helayne Seidman

The lunchtime lunacy is over.

A band of high-school hooligans are now not terrorizing Greenwich Village residents after The Put up uncovered the foul-mouthed, toy gun-toting rowdies earlier this month.

For at the least a 12 months whereas faculty is in session, the roughnecks loitered on stoops, rolled blunts, and menaced West thirteenth Road residents who had the nerve to query them.

The Put up noticed the louts brandishing realistic-looking imitation weapons, which they fired at frightened pedestrians. Neighbors — who mentioned they felt like they have been being held hostage — pointed to the pretend TEC-9 semi-automatic pistols as a tragedy ready to occur.

The ruffians have been adopted again to the Harvest Collegiate Excessive Faculty on West 14th Road.

Cheryl Schwartzman, a retired lawyer, had known as 911 and the sixth Precinct, to no avail. She mentioned native cops had notified Harvest Collegiate Excessive Faculty officers of the on-going downside — however claimed the principal didn't take motion.

Highschool college students smoke weed on West thirteenth St.

Helayne Seidman

Native highschool pupil brandishes a toy gun that appears actual throughout a college lunch break.

Helayne Seidman

Tremendous Mike Figueroa with the mess left from highschool college students at lunch on steps of 106 West thirteenth St.

Helayne Seidman

Some college students at Harvest Collegiate Excessive Faculty go to lunch on the steps of buildings on West thirteenth St.

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However an Oct. 1 expose by The Put up appears to have performed the trick. The kids haven't been seen since, she mentioned.

“Our block was overrun by unruly, scary teenagers at lunchtime, and we had nobody to assist us: Not the police, not our absentee tremendous, not the block affiliation. However, due to the New York Put up … and photographs of the mayhem, the issue magically and all of the sudden disappeared,” Schwartzman mentioned of the year-long siege.