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#479 NYC '84: The Case of the 'Subway Vigilante'

The Bowery Boys: New York City History by Tom Meyers

Feb 13, 202600:54:18Society & Culture

On the afternoon of December 22, 1984, shots rang out beneath the streets of New York, from the subway's 2 Seventh Avenue express train . A Greenwich Village man named Bernhard Goetz shot four black teenagers who he beli...

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#479 NYC '84: The Case of the 'Subway Vigilante' is an episode from The Bowery Boys: New York City History by Tom Meyers. On the afternoon of December 22, 1984, shots rang out beneath the streets of New York, from the subway's 2 Seventh Ave...

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#479 NYC '84: The Case of the 'Subway Vigilante'

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