NYCkayaker FW: marina drug mart

[Erik Baard]

Wow, maybe that explains why the place was so famously insular!

Is it possible that with a change in management we might see this place
become a real community place? What a joy it would be to have this
marina be a real destination.

Erik

> Fyi
> 
> An example of the administration's exploration of privatized revenue
> generating for parks? Ala the aquatic development center proposed for
> randall's or some of the access denying uses proposed for the hudson river
> shore?
> 
> The brownies at the restaurant near the marina always tasted great!
> 
> 
> More reasons while all contracts and schemes being done by parks need
more,
> not less, supervision.  Se also the mob influence at brooklyn golf course,
> etc etc
> 
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> Retired cop charged with running drug mart at marina
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> 
> 
> December 15, 2006, 6:54 PM EST
> 
> NEW YORK (AP) _ A retired police officer and eight others have been
arrested
> on charges of running a drug market at a city-owned Manhattan marina,
> officials said Friday.
> 
> Jerome O'Rourke, 42, who retired from the New York Police Department
in the
> late 1980s, and the others were charged with several counts of
criminal sale
> of a controlled substance and conspiracy, Special Narcotics Prosecutor
> Bridget Brennan reported.
> 
> A six-month long investigation recorded 48 sales of cocaine, heroin,
crack,
> ecstasy and marijuana to undercover narcotics officers at the Dyckman
Street
> Marina or in the vicinity since May of 2006, Brennan said.
> 
> The prosecutor said O'Rourke brokered many of the deals, turning the
marina
> into a place where large-scale dealers could meet with drug buyers who
were
> actually undercover officers.
> 
> O'Rourke's lawyer, Stacey G. Richman, did not return calls for comment.
> 
> Brennan said the undercover officers made 21 narcotics purchases, in
amounts
> ranging up to 80 grams of cocaine, at or near the marina in upper
Manhattan.
> She said they also bought "purple haze" marijuana and ecstasy pills.
> 
> O'Rourke's family has been operating, maintaining and managing the
marina, a
> concession leased from the city, for many years, Brennan said.
> 
> Police with warrants searched the marina and a number of the defendants'
> homes where they found cocaine, marijuana and heroin, the prosecutor said.
> New York City park rangers participated in some of the searches at the
> marina. 
> 
> O'Rourke was arraigned Wednesday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court on the
> drug and conspiracy charges. Justice Michael Ambrecht set his bail at
> $500,000 and adjourned the case until January.
> 
> The other eight suspects involved in the case, who were not city workers,
> were arraigned before Ambrecht and ordered jailed without bail. He
agreed to
> hear their bail applications Monday.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> This article originally appeared at:
>
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--drugs-marina1215dec
> 15,0,868281.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
> 
> Visit Newsday online at http://www.newsday.com.
> 
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Erik Baard

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