Boerum Hill Merchants to Use Social Networking Against Criminals

Shopkeepers in Boerum Hill have formed an anti-crime organization through which Facebook, Twitter, email, and text alerts will warn merchants of suspicious activity in the area, according to Carroll Gardens’ Patch site. Brooklyn Merchants Against Crime, or B-MAC, is local business owners’ response to increasingly dangerous store robberies. Read more at CarrollGardens.Patch.com.