The popular hip-hop radio station Hot 97 will be permanently monitored by the New York Police Department as of this week.
Due to a long history of violence outside of the station, the NYPD has deemed it necessary to install a permanent surveillance camera which will monitor Hot 97's broadcasting building twenty-four hours a day.
This particular camera, the first of five-hundred cameras erected in a $9-million crack down on New York street crime, is being established for the sole purpose of discouraging musically orientated violence outside of the radio station’s HQ at 395 Hudson Street.
A police source told the New York Daily News that “we’ll keep it in place until Hot 97 is evicted or cleans up its act.”
Last week rapper Gravy, who was due to appear on the radio station, was shot in the buttocks by an unknown assailant.
“It was a clean shot. It went straight through and just missed my pelvis bone and my stomach area to make me have a shit bag," said Gravy. “It's all about luck, it was eleven rounds and I only took one hit."
The New York City District Council of Carpenters, the owners of the building in which the radio station is housed, has moved to evict the business from the premises – a move strongly supported by local tenants.
Attorney for the organisation Brian O'Dwyer told the New York Daily News that “lawyers will be meeting with their clients [today] and examining all their options.”
Due to a long history of violence outside of the station, the NYPD has deemed it necessary to install a permanent surveillance camera which will monitor Hot 97's broadcasting building twenty-four hours a day.
This particular camera, the first of five-hundred cameras erected in a $9-million crack down on New York street crime, is being established for the sole purpose of discouraging musically orientated violence outside of the radio station’s HQ at 395 Hudson Street.
A police source told the New York Daily News that “we’ll keep it in place until Hot 97 is evicted or cleans up its act.”
Last week rapper Gravy, who was due to appear on the radio station, was shot in the buttocks by an unknown assailant.
“It was a clean shot. It went straight through and just missed my pelvis bone and my stomach area to make me have a shit bag," said Gravy. “It's all about luck, it was eleven rounds and I only took one hit."
The New York City District Council of Carpenters, the owners of the building in which the radio station is housed, has moved to evict the business from the premises – a move strongly supported by local tenants.
Attorney for the organisation Brian O'Dwyer told the New York Daily News that “lawyers will be meeting with their clients [today] and examining all their options.”
