August 4, 2009 / Brooklyn news / Police Blotter / Park Slope

A lockdown on Lincoln Place as ‘crazy’ lady goes mad

By Robin Riskin

for The Brooklyn Paper

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The Brooklyn Paper / Robin Riskin

Cops locked down Lincoln Place on Tuesday and took out an emotionally disturbed woman who is well known to neighbors.

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Cops put the lockdown on Lincoln Place on Tuesday morning as a woman whom neighbors openly called “the crazy lady” lived up to that cruel nickname.

Police said that the longtime resident of 225 Lincoln Pl., whose name is being withheld by The Brooklyn Paper, started banging on neighbors’ doors with a hammer at around 7:15 am.

When neighbors called the cops, the woman locked herself in a fourth-floor apartment, prompting cops to seal off Lincoln Place between Seventh and Eighth avenues all morning and into the afternoon.

Cops put up a net in case the woman jumped, but eventually coaxed her down.

She emerged from the building at 1:30 pm, screaming and was taken to New York Methodist Hospital in handcuffs. Her husband refused to comment.

A neighbor who declined to give her name said that the woman “has a history of deranged outbursts” that are especially violent when she goes off her medication.

“She’s accused me of flirting with her husband. She said I had goo-goo eyes for him,” the neighbor said, denying the allegation.

The doorman at the building next door told The Brooklyn Paper that the woman is often seen wandering at night with her shopping cart, digging up gardens and screaming at passers-by.

The woman has not been charged with a crime, but is being kept in the hospital’s psychiatric ward.

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