  shooting in my neigborhood... so yesterday i went to my parents' house after work. the six o'clock news came on and their lead story was that of a shooting in an otherwise quiet albany neighborhood. the shot behind the news correspondent looked familiar and i said, "that better not be my neighborhood" and then the correspondent said that the shooting occurred in the Pine Hills neighborhood of Albany and i said, "that is my neighborhood.
" apparently yesterday at 5:30 in the morning this guy was getting home from work and was parked on New Scotland Ave near Norwood Street (the next street over from my street) when two men approached his car and asked for a cigarette. they may or may not have struggled after that and the man got shot in the chest. the two attackers took his wallet and his car and left the guy on the street.
the guy crawled out to the street and waved down a passing ambulance (there are many, many ambulances on New Scotland all the time because St Peter's is on one end and Albany Med is on the other) who took the guy to Albany Med. I guess he survived. This is very freaky though. shootings in your neighborhood are not good.
scary. and my lease is up at the end of this month and i just got the new one to renew it... i was thinking of moving before the shooting and i started thinking of it again after i heard about that, but i really don't think i'd be able to get my ass in gear and find a new place for about the same amount of money that would allow me to move in at the beginning of August... so beh. you can read the urlLink times union article about the shooting urlLink here . 
