well, at least it wasn’t a random robbery/attack and no guns were involved. eventually the area will be too expensive for anyone who isn’t working 17-20 hours a day so this won’t happen anymore and folks who have the spare time and energy to stab eachother will move to less pricey surroundings. we can only hope.

This blog is racist. The posters are racist. Please go away and take these racist bloggers with you. Ditmas park=racist. Plain and simple

I think the byline should be changed to Argyle Stabbing. The fight was consumated on argyle between the Salahi and the Tot lot. The injured parties went to John’s, The Salahi, and the Fire House. The fight did not start in the Salahi. Moe, Ali, Willy, and their other brothers & cousins are decent people who run a 24 hour shop. They are more than willing to tell riff-raff to take a hike and more than willing to help someone out seeking protection from getting beat, stabbed or shot. So please change the byline. They a beginning to think they have bad luck because all the bad stuff happens around their store. The Shooting a couple of years ago happened after the gunman and the victim got off a bus. The stabbing last year had to do with a brother trying to defend his sisters honor and saw the guy coming out of the Salahi. Again last night… the knife fight started in front of the Salahi. None of these incidents originated in the Salahi Brothers store. SO note to criminals out there, can you please do your stabbing, gunning, and beating in another neighorhood— Moe and the gang are getting bad PR. Bottom line wrong place wrong time…

I am a regular customer at Salahi and I live on Argyle right around the corner from where this stabbing occurred. The guys at Salahi are great. They work incredibly hard, and they have always been nothing but helpful and nice to me. I do wonder if the fact that they are open 24 hours sometimes makes them prone to late night incidents, but they themselves should not be held responsible. I will continue to go to Salahi.

I agree with Joey. All of these corner places should be looked at. There is a lot of drug activity as many of them.

Salahi is a great neighborhood asset….they protect our children everyday…if one of our children needs help they will be there….if I need help they will be there. They are kind men.

I would be more worried coming home in the middle of the night to an empty street. What I like about the nabe is that no matter what time of day it is there is always someone on the street.

I get cat calls walking down the street in manhattan. Doesn’t really bother me much. I just ignore them.

As far as the guy hanging near ur building if it bothers you so much why don’t u ask the building super to tell him not to loiter near the building. Obviously, the guy must be a looker and that is his post.

I think we have a responsibility as a community to do whatever is in our power to minimize the risk of this type of violent occurrence from happening again. From what I understand, that corner has been the origin of several violent altercations stretching back 20 years. Baseball bat beatings, shootings, and now multiple stabbings. So far the victims and perpetrators have been known to each other. We should consider ourselves lucky at that stroke of luck, but we shouldn’t count on remaining lucky. Any one of us could be at the wrong place at the wrong time. So let’s use whatever momentum and interest this event has created to rally our community and address the issue with the commanding officer of the 70th precinct. I’m happy to try and arrange a meeting. Ben and Liana, would you use this blog to gauge community interest?

A lot of the commenters seem to be talking past each other.

Hand one: The Salahi guys are mostly good guys, and they work hard and watch out for people they know.

Hand two: But the people they know include a number of jerkoffs and knuckleheads (and one schizophrenic) who hang out there at all hours, and it’s not just a fluke so much trouble happens there as opposed to say Fathers right across from the train (the blue awning deli with the excellent sandwiches, also 24 hours).

I’ve lived here since before Salahi opened and shopped there for years before letting them know I’d no longer do business with them due to said knuckleheads.

Back to hand one: I’m much happier that late at night I and my family members walk from the train past a well-lit open storefront with decent guys working inside rather than what would otherwise be two consecutive completely dark blocks, with no eyes on the street at all.

In the shooting that happened back in 2004 outside Salahi, an innocent bystander was shot in the arm by a stray bullet. If I remember right she was 14 and just happened to be getting off the bus across the street.

Last night my friend was in there and overheard one of the workers reassuring some heavy dudes who were inside the store that he knew the rule was “no snitching.” I’m just sayin’.

Anybody who thinks that isn’t a drug corner, despite how friendly the brothers in the bodega may be, is an idiot.

I’m all for (and will attend) any meeting or other effort necessary to make the police pay more attention to this, to prevent this in the future, and to root out (if true) any sort of drug base/haven going on right there. No more violence.

Yeah, let’s have cameras! Police state!!! Great!!!