Earlier this year, I wrote about a friend who was attacked and thrown to the ground on a September afternoon, while she was walking toward Borough Hall in Brooklyn to go to the post office.
She was on the phone with her mother when a man, whose erratic behavior she had noticed in the distance, pushed her into the street, leaving her with bruises, a chipped tooth and fear new to her after decades of living in New York.
At the time, it did not seem as though the assault might be part of a dark emerging trend.
But the incident would presage many others — instances in which women in New York were randomly punched on the street in the middle of the day.
A few days before the announcement, a 9-year-old girl standing with her mother was punched in the face by a man at Grand Central Station.
Persons:
Joseph Kenny
Organizations:
Borough Hall, city’s Police Department, Grand Central Station
Locations:
Brooklyn, New York, Manhattan, Chelsea