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  • Harlem: It's A Hard-Knock Life

    01/26/2009 5:48:57 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 37 replies · 1,932+ views
    The New York Press ^ | August 6,2008 | Susan Crain Bakos
    A thug named Mykul—all 6-foot-5-inches and 250 pounds of him—knocked me, a 5-foot-2, 120-pound “grammy” to three, down to the concrete. I was in front of St. Nick’s Pub, at 10:30 on a Monday night this past May, when he stole my handbag, a beautiful green snakeskin bag and all its contents, including more cash than I’d carried in Harlem—ever. People I knew from the pub stood and watched. Mykul was so sure of his protected status as a thug in the ‘hood that he ambled away cradling my bag in his arm like a football. Amused that he didn’t...