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Sullivan Square burglars just walk right in and help themselves to goodies at luxury apartment building
By adamg on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 7:45am
Hey, can somebody get the door?
A resident of the Mezzo Design Lofts on Caldwell Street forwarded some surveillance photos and a brief report of a building burglary early on May 28:
Several were involved, and it resulted in most of the packages in the mailroom and the televisions in the gym being stolen. For me it's a concern, as over Christmas, there was another incident. In both cases, residents had strangers follow them into the otherwise secured building and didn't think twice about it.
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all those rent paying tenants
all those rent paying tenants and management cant afford a doorman/security, or just band together and volunteer
Or
they could just not let strangers into their building.
It's hard
If someone's in the vestibule with you, what are you going to do? Open the door a crack, inch yourself in, and pull it shut behind you unless you see proof of residency?
It's a really awkward situation. I absolutely will not let strangers into my building, but there's really no way to stop them from following you in.
Know the people in your building
That's what I do. I also always kick people off of our front steps, and certainly don't let them into the vestibule. I've gone as far as staying outside until they left. This way, I didn't have to even open the front doors.
Sure
If you live in a small building that's fine. But Mezzo has over 100 units, if I remember right. It's pretty hard to keep track of everyone in a building that size.
The outer door doesn't always lock
Often, you don't need a key to get into the vestibule. And some people aren't really physically large enough to enforce "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" Especially when carrying groceries.
It's not hard
and it's only awkward if you let it be.
Just say, "sorry, I can't let non-residents in the building" and simply do not let them in.
Areas we so afraid tell people "no"?
Because relying on the
Because relying on the public, always works so well
Second incident
If this happened before it's a little ridiculous that they didn't take steps to secure the mail room and the common areas. My complex doesn't have a doorman, either, but they do have a system for packages and the gyms are locked. I can understand not wanting to shut the door in the face of someone who might be your neighbor, but there ways to make the building a less attractive target.
I'd drop that dime anonymously...
unless you want to come home to a bullet on your doorstep....
or don't
Really? Drop a dime to 911?!
911 is for emergencies.
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I always ask who's there
I always ask who's there before buzzing someone in.
Once the Cambridge police were buzzing random apartments in my building. Afterwards, I overheard them making fun of me for asking who was there instead of just buzzing them in.
the guy with the messenger bag...
the guy with the messenger bag in the last picture looks familiar. What is the reward for turning him in?
I don't think it's the dude
I don't think it's the dude with the messenger bag who is stealing stuff. Look at the guy behind him who is in a few of the other pics as well....
WBZ-4's Jim Armstrong had no problem getting in
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/06/05/thieves-targ...
So even after residents (or perhaps potential tenants) are aware of what happened, and that it had happened before... they'll let in someone standing outside the main entrance.
For the record, you cannot get into any of the doors without a transponder, so it's not like you can get halfway into the building.
"Well, if someone's standing outside the entrance, it's really awkward, you know."
Not when there's three other entrances, including another one mere feet away. Go in one of the other ones.
Here's the thing, this has happened twice now in 6 months, and then it's now been broadcast how easy it was for Jim Armstrong to be let in? I'd hope there'd be consequences for residents that put their other residents at risk. If not, that's a free pass for residents to break their lease early without having to pay early termination fees.
Mezzo Burglars
There is a halfway house directly across the street that holds heroin addicts. That place is a madhouse with the "residents" yelling at passersby in the morning for cigarettes (or just yelling for no reason) and I'm almost positive there's a meth lab (with aluminum foil covering the windows no less) on one of the parallel streets in East Somerville (the side-street on the right of near the Taco Loco).
That area definitely needs to be policed more. It's by far the creepiest/most dangerous area of Somerville besides Temple Rd, which features some lovely projects. Someone tried to rob me at the 95 bus stop but I fought them off, and the guy walked right back into the projects whence he came - no surprise, right?
A LOT of shady happenings over there.
My car has been keyed at least 3 times in the past year too.
Somerville?
I think that's part of the problem right there - part of the area is Somerville, part of it is Boston ... a fairly isolated and stranded part of Boston at that.
Perhaps Boston and Somerville should have some discussions about sharing patrols in the area?