Residents, cops celebrate Night Out Against Crime
For residents of Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Sunset Park,Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Gravesend, the park was the place to beduring the National Night Out Against Crime on August 2.
In Bay Ridge, officers from the 68th Precinct and localresidents gathered in Shore Road Park at 79th Street for thenight’s festivities, organized by the precinct and its communitycouncil and featuring the beat of Disco Unlimited.
Free food and other giveaways drew both adults and children, thelatter merrily indulging in repeated trips down an inflatable slidebetween painting rainbows on paper plate halves at a table hostedby the Art Room, and having their faces painted courtesy ofstaffers from the Brooklyn Public Library’s Dyker Heightsbranch.