Will listen to you Mark on Tuesday and Wednesday when you sub for El Rushbo.
Will listen to you Mark on Tuesday and Wednesday when you sub for El Rushbo.
There was a great mini-series about that Summer, which I lived through and which really was a terrifying time. It’s called “The Bronx is Burning” it will bring you right back to those days.
I was there that summer and lived in Queens.
I, being young and stupid, did not want to take the bus down Woodhaven Blvd from Queens Blvd one night in the summer so I hitched.
Two men picked me up. As soon as the car drove down the blvd the man upfront in the passenger seat turned, told me I should not be hitching. Did I not know there was a killer shooting women in Queens and held up the police sketch of the killer (later identified to be the Son of Sam).
At the time he was called the 44 caliber killer.
The men giving me a ride were detectives and read me the riot act about hitching.
Another thing that happened to me that summer before he was caught was I went to a disco, with a friend (girl) and as we walked in a man all the way across the dance floor at the bar turned, pointed to me and in a loud voice yelled he was ‘going to get me’. I never saw the guy before.
He then proceeded to yell he was the one they were looking for, the 44 caliber killer.
I have no idea what happened next in the disco because I turned and ran out the door I just came in. I never went back to that disco.
Btw, it was in Brooklyn.
Seinfeld’s van or Son of Sam? You decide.