Don’t you need street smarts at 4am? NYC?
Women need to be protected just like the sheep that need sheepdogs. Women today are declining the help of leaders who have that sheepdog/shepherd mentality. This is what you get. Who’s gonna say it?
She’d only lived in NYC for about a year, and apparently got out of a cab and he was roaming the area. If you live in NY, it’s not unusual to come home at that time…it used to be called the City that Never Sleeps, and while the restrictions have shut things down, most people know where to go to avoid them or she may have been with friends.
The nabe is heavily but not entirely Chinese now. When I was growing up, Chrystie St. was part of the neighborhood we called the Bowery, which was where the derelicts and street alcoholics lived. THere were also still a lot of elderly, early 20th century immigrant Jews and Italians in the neighborhood and a lot of other poorer old folks.
These apartments were literally cold water flats, that is, 19th century tenements that were walk-ups, had a shared toilet for each floor (it was at the end of the hallway and mounted on two steps, hence the name, “The Throne”), the bathtub in the kitchen with an enamel plate you could put down so it could be used as a table…and no hot water. You had to boil water on the stove to get hot water for the bath.
I worked for a charity there for a couple of years. The biggest problem was when drugs arrived, and made the normally passed-out, annoying and unsightly but not normally dangerous “Bowery bums” a thing of the past. Then it became young druggies, overdoses and stabbings (including a former co-worker, who was stabbed to death by a druggie on the stoop in front of his wife).
Parts of the area have been gentrified and less gentrified areas have been resettled by Asians over the years.
Don’t do the usual Freeper thing of blaming the victim. Blame the lousy policies of the City of New York.