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SCOUT· 19%54m·2026-02-13·History#479 NYC '84: The Case of the 'Subway Vigilante'
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
On the afternoon of December 22, 1984, shots rang out beneath the streets of New York, from the subway's 2 Seventh Avenue express train. A Greenwich Village man named Bernhard Goetz shot four black teenagers who he believed were about to assault him. The incident made international news, amplified by the city’s…
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