This is a scary story – thanks for reporting on it, KPB.

A few years ago, a female friend of mine was held up at gunpoint just outside the Ft. Hamilton Pkwy stop underneath the overpass between the playground and school (Ft. Hamilton end). I mention this just to let neighbors know that that exit is fairly secluded if there aren’t a lot of people getting off the train at the time you are.  Especially late at night, in my opinion it’s wiser to ride one more stop to Church and walk down Church then back in the direction of Ft. Hamilton to get where you’re going, because Church at least has businesses open late and the exit of the subway isn’t secluded. For what it’s worth in unsolicited safety advice…

I’m very sorry for the woman this happened to on Wednesday.

It’s a known fact that many criminals who ask victims to remove their underwear are doing it for completely non-sexual reasons.

The reports I’ve read say attempted rape — which this may or may not have been. I haven’t seen the police report. It’s safe to say that being asked to remove your underwear is sexually violating, and that puts it on par with the other attacks that have involved fondling and grabbing at a variety of body parts.

We associate these attacks because they are part of a pattern that demonstrates that sexual assault (of any variety) is permissible and perpetrators won’t get caught. If this is the 3rd or 4th man committing *known* sexual assaults in Windsor Terrace/Park Slope/Sunset Park/Bay Ridge/Kensington that’s enough to demonstrate that perpetrators are feeling emboldened. That’s scary.

And while I realize that husbands and boyfriends are freaked out, they need to do something with that freaking out other than just try to protect their wives and girlfriends (I have neither a husband nor a boyfriend or really any umbrella of male privilege, which is true of many women living in Brooklyn.) How about volunteering with any of the groups offering escorts home? Or being visibly present on the street? Or, even more importantly, helping to stop rape culture at its most insidious: teaching their friends, siblings, fathers, and kids around them that women shouldn’t have to protect themselves from rapists? Men just shouldn’t rape.

It’s time for everyone, including men in our communities, to take responsibility and up the ante in figuring out how we can stop these sorts of crimes now and in the future.

Unbelievable ,unacceptable., unfortunate !!  My regards and sympathy  to  the  Victim. who is my neighbor and respected sister.

 For future, we should  keep on eyes to take preventive measure for our mother and sister with the help of our  neighbors, very active and dedicated 66 police precinct  including  their high skilled  detectives and other forces and sources of NY PD. 
 After midnight  in Bus and Train , police petrol can be assured  more to check and stop all kinds of unethical activities. We can make awarnees about this kind of situation by our schools to the parents.
We will work shoulder to shoulder to clean  up our area from any crime and make it crime free zone.We all are concern to keep our neighbor save and secured.———-Abu  Khaliquzzaman.