[Theoria]

'Young white girl going alone to bad part of town to purchase drugs'

This is upper Manhattan. The park is adjacent to her school and next to Mt. Sinai. Not the mecca of crime, nor a bad part of town.

[mewzilla]

The venue didn’t kill her, the perps did.

And I don’t think she’d’ve encountered into them in a library or a church.

[Drew68]

This is upper Manhattan. The park is adjacent to her school and next to Mt. Sinai. Not the mecca of crime, nor a bad part of town.

Actually, it’s the most crime-ridden park in NYC.

[Silentgypsy]

I beg to differ. During pre-dawn hours, one of the Mt. Sinai personnel wanted security to open the door after he’d been hit (shot), and the guard actually gave him a hard time about it. (This was in the late ‘70’s. It was a crappy neighborhood then. I don’t know what it’s like now, but it doesn’t sound good from this story.)

[joegoeny]

I grew up in Brooklyn, any park after dark is a bad part of town. It helped if you were known to the gang that owned it. But even that wasn’t a guarantee.