Back in March 13, 1964, when I was a kid living in Queens, New York, a harrowing news story was reported. A young woman named Kitty Genovese had been stabbed to death by a young man named Winston Mosley in the quiet neighborhood of Kew Gardens, Queens. The harrowing part of the story was that 38 neighbors heard the entire attack, yet failed to get involved in stopping it in anyway (including calling the police). For years, the incident became a symbol of the apathy in the big, bad, modern city. It was even made into a fictionalized TV movie … Continue reading March 13, 1964: It Turns Out It Wasn’t a Date of Infamy