[miss marmelstein]

Actually, I worked 3 years at New York Hospital when the Shah was brought in and during the whole Libby Zion fracas. You see a lot in these places. Particularly when the crowd is baying for the blood of the dying Shah.

I've been in dozens of emergency rooms in both NJ & NY and seen gunshot victims. I once saw a guy come out of a house in Neptune, NJ with a butcher's knife in his chest. It's amazing how fast you can run with that thing sticking out. All of these were almost exclusively black on black crimes that were done in the inner cities. Manhattan is NOT an inner-city. It has it's problems due to DeBlasio but it is certainly not a hellhole and still a vibrant exciting place to live and work. Even, as Dracula once said, after dark.

[Gay State Conservative]

All of these were almost exclusively black on black crimes that were done in the inner cities.

Assuming that you believe that I'm white (which I am) I'm simply not as confident as you seem to be that my whiteness will protect me *anywhere* in NYC after dark.Call me cowardly and I just might plead guilty.

And as for Manhattan no being a ghetto I've seen the dirtiest homeless people you can imagine sleeping on park benches just a stone's throw from Lincoln Center.

But I *will* give you credit for one thing though...you're an excellent advocate for your home city! ;-)