I heard shots from my Roosevelt I. bldg.
A Roosevelt Island man has described hearing a barrage of gunfire from his building, which cops believe was from the potshots taken over the weekend at a luxury highrise in Manhattan about 1,400 feet away across the East River.
“Part of the reason I moved to Roosevelt Island is that there’s like never crime there,” John Thrasher, 32, told The Post on Tuesday. “There’s a lot of families. There are playgrounds everywhere.”
Thrasher, who lives at 30 River Road, said he was sitting on his balcony Saturday at around 1:10 a.m. after being unable to sleep when he heard “at least four and probably five” shots.
“I looked over my balcony on the west side toward the river and didn’t see anything — there was no scurrying, there was no one yelling, there were no people whatsoever,” Thrasher said.
He said he quickly alerted the building’s doorman, who called 911.
At around the same time, a resident on the 32nd floor of the luxury high-rise at One East River Place across the river in Manhattan was awakened by the shattering of a living-room window.
Less than 24 hours earlier, bullets had crashed through the living-room window of a 14th-floor apartment in the same 50-story building. Three bullets were found there, according to a police source.
“You can see very clearly from my balcony the two windows that were broken,” Thrasher said.
About a dozen detectives on Tuesday were seen canvassing Thrasher’s neighbors for leads.
An NYPD spokesman said Tuesday that the gunfire incident is “under investigation” and no arrests have been made.
Tenants in the targeted building between East 72nd and East 73rd streets blasted building manage- ment for not notifying them about the bullets whizzing through the windows. “The [management] should communicate it,” said Giovanni Rampone, 59, who lives on the 31st floor. “We shouldn’t have to find out about it when we hit the streets.” A lawyer in a 24th-floor apartment facing the East River said she learned the news from a Post article texted to her by her ex-husband. “They have an obligation to notify people who might be in harm’s way,” the tenant said. A 75-year-old woman who lives on the 42nd floor said the scare solidifies her plans to leave. “I’m done,” she said. “I guess it’s a sign of the times — there are crazy people out there . . . it’s frightening . . . I don’t feel safe.” Solow, the building’s management company, did not return requests for comment.