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...rescuers, one black, one Hispanic and two Chinese, are on patrol for a vigilante group that calls itself the Magnificent 13. But for their presence at the 149th Street-Grand Concourse IRT station in The Bronx, the traveler might well have become one more grim ripple in the current wave of terror beneath New York's streets. Nobody is sure exactly how many people have been robbed and beaten in recent months by teen-age gangs, often while fellow passengers and even train conductors did nothing. Already this year there have been eight subway murders. On one particularly...
...Magnificent 13 took up its underground patrols well before the mayor acted. The group's founder and leader is Curtis ("The Rock") Sliwa, 23, a night manager of the McDonald's restaurant at the corner of Broadway and 236th Street in The Bronx. Neatly turned out and ruggedly handsome, Sliwa became known as The Rock for his high school skill at brawling and an ability to go for days without sleep. He also has some notable experience with civil action. In 1977 he formed something called the Rock Brigade, 63 high school kids, all volunteers, who are still...
Wearing red berets as a badge of office, the original 13 went into action last Feb. 13, with three teams patrolling what is known as the Muggers' Express, the No. 4 IRT train from Woodlawn in The Bronx to Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn "We stopped a mugging the first night a 167th and River Avenue," one patroller remembers. "We asked the conductor to signal ahead to the next station, where we handed the mugger over to the transit police." A week later, they suffered their first casualty...
...overseas and industrial workers at home. After the war controls were lifted everywhere except New York City, where they remain to this day. Opponents of rent control, who include some citizens' groups as well as landlords and real estate developers, point to New York's devastated South Bronx, Brownsville and Williamsburg as examples of the damage controls do. Unable to raise rents to pay for higher fuel, taxes and other costs, owners let their buildings run down and often abandon them. In the two years that controls were in effect in Miami Beach, there was no new rental...
...Bronx Zoo. Lyle & Golenbock