Little Neck Cove

On Saturday, May 1, the neighborhoods of Middle Plantation, Sea Breeze and Little Neck Cove will have a community-wide garage sale day.  Time is from 8-1.  If you wish to participate, please call Linda Steltz at 463-3907 see more details on our Events page.

Idea Exchange

Notes from Bishopsgate's meeting with the Crime Prevention officer.

Special Guest Speaker

Kings Grant Civic League will have a soldier who has recently served in Iraq/Afghanistan to speak at its meeting on March 20th.  The speaker has been asked to discuss how our troops feel about serving there and their perception of how they are received by the local population.  He can also speak on any other aspects of his tour over there.

UNLOCKED Cars: 

Over the last several nights four cars in our community were opened and rummaged through.  According to the police, the MO of this type of incident is for a group of 3-6 people to check out all cars in an area late at night to determine which ones are unlocked.  They then open and loot each one. Once they find an area where there are unlocked cars, they tend to keep coming back.  For the safety of your family and your neighbors, please lock your cars at night.

Do you have any ideas to make your civic league meetings better?  Have you had an event where everyone had a good time?  If so, please share your thoughts and accomplishments.

 

Contributed by:  Bill Carson, President of 3rd CAC for John Gossner

If you are looking for a speaker at a civic league meeting, John Gossner, Treasurer of 3rd CAC,  can provide a short briefing (about 30 min) supported with PowerPoint slides on the Mariners Museum. You would have to contact John (gossnerj@verizon.net or 464-6042) a few weeks before to make sure that he is available on the given date and can clear it with the Museum.

 

 

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2/17/10:  Notes from our Crime Prevention Officer's visit to Bishopsgate Civic League Meeting

 

Neighbors,

 

Our Crime Prevention Officer, Master Police Officer David Nieves, came to our civic league meeting last week to talk about neighborhood watch and ongoing criminal mischief in the Little Neck area.  Here are some notes from his comments:

 

What makes a good Neighborhood Watch Program?

Looking out for one another.   Know your neighbors on the left, right and behind you.  Know who should be in their yard and driveway and who should not.  Protect your neighborhood.   Police are 1st responders.   Need help from homeowners.  Stay alert and report suspicious activity to the non-emergency number at 385-5000.  Keep doors and windows locked.  Don’t leave valuable items in plain view.  You don't want your neighborhood to become known as a "fishing hole" for burglars.  Lots of car burglaries in Little Neck lately… mostly UNLOCKED car doors.  Lock your doors.  Clean the windshield of the telltale GPS suction cup circle.  They will look extra hard for that GPS.

 

Solicitors need to have a permit.  Ok to question them to check for it.   Call non-emergency police # to report violations.

 

Check your doors and windows regularly.  Some workmen who do work in your home are known to leave a door or window unlocked, maybe the garage door, to gain access later on.   Definitely should keep door from garage into house always locked.   They know people don't usually lock them.  So they purposely unlock external garage door, gain access, and then can open the inside garage door into house.  Don’t leave extra house keys hanging up anywhere when you have workmen in your house.  They can take it at lunch, make a copy and return it before you notice it is missing.

 

First place burglars go once they get in the house is the master bedroom.   They flip the mattress on your bed to see if anything is hidden under the mattress.  Next thing they do is check all bedside table drawers.  Then to the dresser drawers.   And then to the closet, especially checking the top shelves.  They will grab entire jewelry boxes and go.

 

He said one idea for hiding stuff when you will be gone on vacation, etc. is to wrap the items in dirty clothes and stick in the washer. 

 

Suggestion to take photos of the contents of every room in your house.   Provides record of your belongings.   Record the serial number of items on the photos.  People who take things to pawn shops have to register name and address.  Police will match serial numbers of stolen items to things dropped off at pawn shops.  This is valuable information to provide to the police if you are robbed… helps them recover your items.

 

 

We plan to invite him back… great information and presentation.

 

Sincerely,

Loren

 

Loren V. Heckelman

President, Bishopsgate Civic League

Loren.Heckelman@cox.net