Anarchy In The Bronx: Day Three

The Co-Op City police strike continues:

Life went on at Co-op City yesterday as a strike by its private police force and lobby attendants entered its second day.

But at least some elderly people among its 50,000 residents were on edge.

“I don’t feel safe, but what can you do?” said Grace Lucas, 90, a resident on Dreiser Loop since 1969, shortly after the giant Mitchell-Lama cooperative opened.

“I have my home aide with me, and I just go for exercise, that’s all. But I come home as fast as I can,” said the retired nurse’s aide.

Lucas said she has seen more regular city police cars on patrol since the strike began.

“But I haven’t seen any in the building up the back steps. That’s where the robbin’ is done,” she said. “People come in and wait in the back stair, waiting to hear people walking back and forth. We just have to be careful until the strike is over.”