“A lot of the evidence was probably burnt up in the fire.”
"A gas leak triggered an earthshaking explosion that flattened two apartment buildings on Wednesday, killing at least six people and injuring more than 60. A tenant said residents had complained repeatedly in recent weeks about ‘‘unbearable’’ gas smells. The recovery was facing hardship in the form of the weather, which was expected to drop into the 20s with rain. Some parts of the debris pile were inaccessible because of a sinkhole."
It's still winter, yeah, as the Globe sinks that version.
Searchers scour rubble after gas explosion kills 7
Gas blast destroys 2 NY buildings; 6 people dead
"Investigators tried to pinpoint the leak and determine whether it had anything to do with New York’s aging gas and water mains, some of which date to the 1800s. Aging infrastructure has become a major concern across the country in recent years, as cold, stiff winds blew across the still-smoldering debris, construction equipment with iron jaws picked up the rubble, first depositing it on the pavement, then hoisting it onto trucks that hauled it away."
Hard for me to discern why Giuliani would do that.
Anybody hear a scream?
"Kitty Genovese’s screams still haunt 50 years later; Case became a symbol of urban despair" by Karen Matthews | Associated Press, March 12, 2014
NEW YORK — Kitty Genovese’s screams for help couldn’t save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartment in 1964. Fifty years later, those screams still echo, a symbol of urban breakdown and city dwellers’ seeming callousness toward their neighbors.
The case ‘‘caught the spirit of the time,’’ said Thomas Reppetto, a police historian. ‘‘It seemed to symbolize that society no longer cared about other people.’’
Genovese’s random stabbing by Winston Moseley on March 13, 1964, became a sensation when The New York Times reported that ‘‘38 respectable, law-abiding citizens’’ in Queens watched the attack unfold over more than half an hour and didn’t call police during the assault.
While more recent reporting — some of it by the Times itself — found that the number of people who actually saw the murder was greatly exaggerated and that some neighbors did try to help, the Genovese case left its mark on public policy and psychology.
I've come to realize you can never believe the AmeriKan media, and that you never could.
It has been credited with spurring adoption of the 911 system in 1968 as well as ‘‘Good Samaritan’’ laws that give legal protection to people who help those in trouble.
The case also gave rise to research into the ‘‘bystander effect’’ — the phenomenon in which a group of onlookers fails to help someone in distress — and is often featured in psychology textbooks.
At least five books about Genovese’s killing have come out recently or will be published this year, a testament to the enduring fascination with the case....
Not here.
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I feel like I was there because they made a TV movie about it in the 1970s.
UPDATES: NY restaurateur’s death blamed on carbon monoxide
No tip for him.
NEXT DAY UPDATE: Bodies of 8 missing in NYC blast recovered
