Profile view of the new 9th Precinct, the front facade is the "old facade"

The front of the 9th Precinct is a recreation of the old facade although for me, it lost something in the "make-over".  From the side, the building reminds me of California, not NYC.  You can see a mega build further down the street that looks like a space ship landed -- part of this new hideous New York.  At least the police building attempts to fit in with the neighborhood and takes pride in "old" New York.   I call the 9th Precinct that 9 and half precinct -- just my humorous attempt to say the population of the area the 9th is responsible for has in theory been massively expanded thanks to this tsunami of mega dorms, mega mirrored condos and sky piercing hotels so I jokingly say we need a BIGGER precinct with even more police officers.

I think of Blade Runner and the collage of languages in the film.  In this neighborhood you can hear dialects of "American"(the British tease me I speak American but I am not sure what my first language is), Spanish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Taiwanese, Yiddish, Hebrew, Nepalese, Tibetan, Japanese, Korean,Polish, Russian, Arabic, Indian, Pakistan, Myanmarese (?)(instead of saying Burmese), and  American Indian just to name a few.

The 9th Precinct, I think is the only precinct in NYC that has a mega dose of mega dorms with a huge temporary population dominated by NYU plus NY Law, The New School, SVA, and Cooper Union that comes here to live for "x" amount of time from age 18 on up that may not be used to all that NYC has "to offer". (This mega dose of mega amounts of young people is a "constant" in terms of overwhelmingly/ highly populating the housing/community with what feels like the eternal fountain of youth each year being replaced with the next batch of new 18 years old-- a temporary large population in flux, dominating the area that remains eternally 18 years old and new to the area struggling to remain the East Village and not NYU-Las Vegas-ville.)  These universities have their "own police" as well which is weird especially NYU because of their massive population and occupation of our neighborhood and the surrounding areas from Stuy Town, Chelsea, West Village down to South St. Seaport and yes they have campus space mid-town too.  The bottom line is the 9th Precinct may be the only precinct in NYC to have the most massive amount of student housing -- mega dorms and various other official and unofficial student housing by at least 5 campuses and NYU happens to be the no. 1 real estate magnate and not for profit to boot.

With the "new economy" of mega wealth that moves in to the East Village, a lot of problems you might see in Tompkins Square Park may exist but on "higher levels" that don't require park benches.      Will there be more complicated techno-crimes with the old style "Boesky shuffle" that was so complicated it was almost impossible to prosecute him but Ivan Boesky was busted and he did serve some time.   I am sure "new technology + new wave of wealth" may bring "new style crime" to our  East Village, NYU-ville, "new New York",  something complicated hard to detect I call "Boesky like crime" to our neighborhood, not the kind you find in Tompkins Square Park.   The mega builds in our humble neighborhood also resemble Wall Street so I imagine more slick "street crime" you find downtown or on the upper East Side will come to our East Village neighborhood.   How ironic, the NYPD needs a raise, especially their starting salary big time but the NYPD may need to get business and techno-degrees and speak at least 2 or 3 languages to really be state of the art.  The NYPD made need to create a 'new economy techno-street crime division" and I am not talking concrete street and geographically technology makes location unimportant but sky piercing mirrored condos would be great places to set up shop. 

 In theory understanding terror attacks despite  their primitive ways requires understanding global politics and global economies because one of their objectives besides mass murder was to hurt our economy.  For some reason post 9-11 there just seems to be more mega wealth here in the city and the East Village than ever before.  Ultimately it changed our demographics pushing out even more middle class and poor.

How will policing change in this "new New York"?  Will the 9th Precinct have to move out for a "new" new renovation or move to a much bigger building as the neighborhood "grows" to resembles a bad xerox of mid-town,  Time Square and Wall Street more and more?

p.s. The answer for now is a downsizing of the police as the population and city continues to go through these transformations I call the "new hideous New York" being  built on old New York's infrastructure because of city's budget cuts.  I also fear more infrastructure breaks that resemble terror attacks are in our future and is another big concern for the safety of people living, working and visiting here.