By Yepoka Yeebo
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
EAST HARLEM — Two "kids" were shot in East Harlem Monday afternoon, police at the scene said.
Police said they received a call at 4:20 p.m about the shooting on East 106th Street between Park and Lexington avenues. Two injured victims were taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital and both victims were stable, police said. NYPD did not know the ages of the victims.
Police said they had no further details about what had happened.
A resident of the block, who did not want to be named, said she got a call from a friend about the shooting, and had been afraid her nephew was involved.
"Two innocent boys just walking got shot," she said. "...it's scary, my son goes to daycare right down the block, I walk around here all the time, there are children everywhere."
The woman and another resident of the block said rivalry between two city housing developments, the Carver Houses beyond the Metro North tracks on Park Avenue, and the Washington Houses, between Second and Third avenues, frequently exploded into violent incidents, but that the stretch of East 106th Street between Park and Lexington was not usually affected.
Residents described chaos on the ordinarily quiet block, which is home to two schools, two churches and a cluster of brownstones.
"There were helicopters, and people running around," Daniel Rodriguez, 23. "And I got here after everything was over."
Rodriguez said he was surprised he didn't hear the shots.
"There are two schools, so at this time in the afternoon, when you hear anything, you put it down to high school kids running around."
Rodriguez said he had lived nearby on Lexington Avenue for his entire life, and had never seen a violent incident before today.
"Maybe on the other side of the tracks in the projects," he said pointing to the Carver Houses on Park Avenue, "But not here."
"We don't need this reflection on our neighborhood right now," he added.
