This bit of goodness brought to you by the New York Times, and the Bay Ridge Bloggers that helped attract attention to the spot in the first place.
Here’s the piece from the New York Times.
The indictment charges that Mr. Rodriguez presided over a drug ring that sold up to 2,000 $20 bags of crack cocaine each week across a broad swath of neighborhoods, most of them in southern Brooklyn: Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Park Slope, Dyker Heights, Borough Park, Bensonhurst, Bushwick and Williamsburg. The drug ring also made sales in the Todt Hill section on the northern part of Staten Island. Mr. Rodriguez’s drug-selling activity goes back to 2003, officials said.
The drug ring’s dispatches received cellphone orders 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and sent drivers out to deliver the drugs to customers, according to the indictment.
Interestingly, Mr. Hynes said the current case “ stemmed from the investigation into a family of drug dealers operating out of two homes on 93rd Street in Bay Ridge, last June.”
In that earlier case, as Michael Wilson reported in The Times last fall, bloggers in Bay Ridge helped draw attention to suspicious activity at two houses, 346 and 348 93rd Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues.
Based in part on the bloggers’ posts, neighbors started filing complaints at the 68th Precinct station house and attending Community Board 10 meetings. The investigation resulted in the arrests of five people, including three brothers who lived in the two houses on 93rd Street.
