The shooting of two people at 657 Antone Street on May 4, 2026 represents a tipping point for crime within the Berkeley Park Neighborhood. The Berkeley Park Neighborhood Association (BPNA) has been working with our local councilman, Dustin Hillis and local Police Precinct officers to address our continual issues.  BPNA is reaching out to local businesses for support of our efforts to bring this issue to the highest levels of City Government. 

There is a direct correlation between events held at the Recording Studios and Restaurants on Antone Street and the crime within the Berkeley Park Neighborhood. For too long, neighbors along Antone Street, Tallulah Street, Holmes Street, and Verner Street have had to deal with recurring late-night disorder spilling into the residential Streets and disrupting the safety and peace our neighborhood deserves.

THIS IS NO WAY TO LIVE AND RESIDENTS DO NOT FEEL SAFE:

This is not just “city living.”
This is not a one-time inconvenience.
This is a repeated public safety problem.

Residents are dealing with:

• constant car break-ins and vehicle-related crime
• loitering late into the night
• disorderly conduct on residential streets
• double parking and blocked streets
• crowds spilling out into the neighborhood
• amplified noise during late-night hours, resulting in the need to sleep with earplugs and invest in noise blocking home alterations, which in itself leads to safety concerns
• likely excessive drinking and alcohol-related disorder
• serious concern about possible impaired driving, which could lead to crashes, injuries, or worse
• residents finding broken liquor bottles, food debris, and used condoms along their street frontage after each event

Families, homeowners, renters, and longtime residents should not have to spend every Sunday and Monday night wondering whether their block will once again be turned into an extension of nearby nightlife activity.

Berkeley Park residents are not asking for anything unreasonable. We are asking for the most basic function of local government: public safety, order, and responsiveness.

Occasional citations and scattered enforcement have not solved the problem. The City must move beyond one-off responses and implement a visible, sustained enforcement strategy that protects residents and restores order.

We are calling on the City of Atlanta Chief Operating Officer to direct the following:

• Targeted late-night APD Zone 2 deployment on Sunday and Monday nights
• Deployment focused on Antone Street, Tallulah Street, and Holmes Street
• A 30-60 day directed enforcement period
• Visible patrols during closing and spillover hours
• Enforcement against loitering, double parking, blocking streets, disorderly conduct, and amplified noise
• A formal meeting with APD, the COO’s office, and Berkeley Park neighborhood representatives

This situation has gone on long enough.

When car break-ins, loitering, disorderly conduct, and suspected alcohol-related driving risks become a repeated pattern, City leadership has a responsibility to act before a frustrating situation becomes a tragedy.

Berkeley Park residents deserve to feel safe on their own streets. We deserve sleep. We deserve order. We deserve a neighborhood where residential blocks are not treated like overflow space for late-night activity and public disorder.

We urge the COO to take this seriously, direct targeted enforcement, and meet with neighborhood representatives to develop a real solution.

A city that cannot protect residential streets from recurring late-night disorder is telling residents to fend for themselves. Berkeley Park is asking for order, enforcement, and accountability before this gets even worse.  

Our neighborhood is also asking for a “Good Faith Agreement” with the local businesses so that owners/event organizers begin to address and control the behaviors within their control.  The recommendation to have this request signed was recommended by Councilman Dustin Hillis’ office.

GOOD FAITH REQUEST OF NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESSES:

1. Businesses must provide secured, off-street parking for each patron coming to the events.  The secured parking must be an agreement reached with local property owners.  Parking areas must have security within the parking to eliminate car break-ins
2. Provide a proper drop-off area which does not block the street while people are coming to an event, and maintains two-way traffic at all times.
3. Business owners / Event producers provide security which extends beyond the doors of the event space, into the neighborhood, to prevent spreading crime. This shall include providing neighborhood patrols through duration of events up to an hour after scheduled events.
4. Events are to follow the local noise ordinance.  Sound from events shall be minimized so as not to broadcast into the neighborhood.
5. Studios must provide more security cameras to prevent local businesses from being disturbed by patrons asking to see who damaged their vehicles.
6. Event organizers must clean up along street frontage and parking lots after each event. This includes residential areas within 750 ft in each direction of the Business space.
7. Prevent alcohol use outside of Business / Event space and have security stop patrons from drinking in streets

Berkeley Park Neighborhood Association