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Beset with more curves than the Miss America pageant and more hills than the Sound of Music, Woodhaven Blvd is as close as a New York City road can come to being an amusement park ride, though its doubtful too many drivers find anything amusing about it. It manages to combine the worst features of such multi-divided secondaries as Queens Blvd and Brooklyn's Kings Hwy, with a topography better suited to SUVs than autos or trucks. Obviously disatisfied with its status, Woodhaven also attempts twice to soar into superhighway ranks. Not only does it fail, but it suffers the ignimony of being the crossover lackey for two other boulevards with aborted arterial intentions: Queens and Conduit. Finally, unable to stand itself any longer, it Dr. Jekylls itself into alter ego Cross Bay Blvd for its final demented descent towards the Rockaways. Though looking far more normal than its wierded out Woodhaven half, the Cross Bay stretch has been like a street possessed in recent years. It was the center stage for the infamous Howard Beach racial attack in 1986 and more recently, on Broad Channel, it hosted a community parade where local cops ran a float poking fun at the Texas dragging death of a black man. On that very same insular island in the late 1970's, a white heavy-metal type youth poured gasoline into the Broad Channel subway station token booth and burned the black token clerk on duty to death.
Lest anyone think I'm painting these communities unfairly, there are no shortage of places in this city where white folks would be ill advised to find themselves and no shortage of incidents where they are the victims, but are treated merely as run-of-the-mill incidental victims, with no racial motives ascribed to their attacks, and therefore no media storm that turns the crime site neighborhood into a veritable verb for hate crime.
Getting back to the main protagonist roadways of this section, what more can I say? They are wierd...strange, wierd and peculiar.
**the Broad Channel incident is referred to at the end of the 1st paragraph**
This was my cousin who was a Seminary student at Cathedral Prep. He was kiled over July 4th week of 1976 and shot in the head by a 12 year old. It happened at 121st and Morningside.
His name was Hugh Mc Evoy and he was a brillian kid.
If you can fill me in on your recollection of the time I would be appreciative.
I've returned to this nieghborhood and it is so much different now, I've been back for ten years and have kids of my own. I think of my cousin alot and would appreciate any recollections of that time. Please feel free to contact me if you are up for it and if message gets to you. I see it's been a couple years since your post.
Thank you,
Michael Woods
58 Manhattan Ave #23
New York, NY 10025
917-544-1321 mjw44@yahoo.com
The only story I know is that lady in richmond hill queens before when it used to be italian instead of guyanese who was killed. This happened 40 years ago. The murder was highly publisized because a lot of people in the murder vincinity heard screaming and cries for help and no good samaratan did not come to her aid. Thiis is b4 my time
Is that the murder/slaughter of Kitty Genovese in 1964 in Kew Gardens? Reportedly 38 of her neighbors listened to her screams over a long time as she was repeatedly raped and stabbed in a back alley, never even calling the police...the killer even left and returned to stab her some more, this time to death. It made headlines the world over illustrating the vulgar callousness of New Yorkers.
Is that the murder/slaughter of Kitty Genovese in 1964 in Kew Gardens? Reportedly 38 of her neighbors listened to her screams over a long time as she was repeatedly raped and stabbed in a back alley, never even calling the police...the killer even left and returned to stab her some more, this time to death. It made headlines the world over illustrating the vulgar callousness of New Yorkers.
I don't know how old everyone is here but if my memory serves me correctly, I seem to recall in NY's darker days a story of a Columbia University student who was killed on the steps of one of Columbia Univ's impressive academic halls by someone off the streets
I think it was sometime in 1978(probably 1st half) and the victim's name was Hugh McAvoy
I've searched the 'net but can't find anything
does anyone recall?
I'm too young to recall, but my uncle told me about a university professor who got killed near Columbia University in the 70's or 80's when he refused to hand out his watch. I've done a NY Times archive search that did not come up with anything. When I see my uncle I ask for more details.
The story became a couplet in one of the first great rap songs:
"They pushed that girl in front of the train,
Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again"
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