02 February 2010
Halil Korkmaz, 39, was charging east along Houston Street around 10 p.m. when he stopped for a red light at Chrystie Street on Saturday, May 17, 1997. Then, a man wearing a helmet dismounted the rear of a friend’s Ninja motorcycle idling beside Korkmaz, and approached him. “Give me the bike,” commanded the figure.
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22 January 2010
Maurice Parks, 39, walked home through the misty fog, a few minutes before midnight. He had just gotten off his shift as a subway conductor, and was still wearing his navy blue MTA uniform. Parks was “literally across the street from his house. Another 20 yards and he would have been home.”
25 November 2009
Rose Sylvester, 48, says she fears for her life. For the past year, she has been watching the vertical cracks running from the basement to the roof of her apartment’s building, fearful that it would collapse.
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23 November 2009
“I remember when all along 146th, there used to be only one viable business, a wash house. You’d go there every week to do wash, and every week, you’d hear about how someone had just got shot on the street,” said George Harris. “Now, people walk everywhere at night, even into the parks, it really surprises me.”
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