Although Dyker Heights had always been a middle-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, famous for its Christmas light displays and low crime rate, it was ultimately an open community.
It lacked the strict security of high-end apartments with doormen like those on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, nor did it have the buffer of private driveways stretching for hundreds of meters, typical of Long Island manors.
Most of the houses here were right on the street; you could simply step across an unfenced lawn and be right at the front door.
And all this chaos stemmed from the student at Franklin High School responsible for running the official Twitter account.
When posting the tweet congratulating Li Wei on his All-American Bowl MVP award, the student had tried to show the school's support by including a photo of the principal with Li Wei.
In the tweet, perhaps because he was high on marijuana, he directly mentioned that Li Wei lived in Dyker Heights.
