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Last fall he held a job for six weeks at a pizza joint, making $3.65 an hour kneading dough and clearing tables. Before work, he would take off two of his three shirts and hide them in an alley. It pleases him that no one knew ) he was homeless. Says George: "Sure I could have spent that money on some good drink or food, but you gotta suffer to save. You gotta have money to get out of here and I gotta get out of here." Some days he was scolded for eating too much of the food. He often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Descent into Hell | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

Around dinner time the students sent out for pizza--"We all contributed, but Neustadt contributed the largest chunk," Rubin recalls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...sleepy insularity of Howard Beach ended last week. Overnight a brutal attack against three young black men at a local pizza parlor turned the neighborhood into a national synonym for flagrant racial violence. The death of one of the young blacks and the apparently unprovoked beating of all three at the hands of a gang of white teenagers caused New York City's Mayor Ed Koch to describe what happened as the "most horrendous incident" of violence in his nine years as mayor. Local civil rights leaders saw the attack not as an isolated outbreak but as the latest example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Vs. White in Howard Beach | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...18th birthday. Among them were Jon Lester, 17, Jason Ladone, 16, and Scott Kern, 17. Shortly before midnight, according to police, several guests, including Lester, left the party to drive a young woman home. Along Cross Bay Boulevard their headlights caught three blacks walking toward the New Park pizza parlor. "Niggers!" yelled the whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Vs. White in Howard Beach | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...Queens to pick up Griffith's paycheck from a construction site. On their way back to Brooklyn, their 1976 Buick broke down on Cross Bay Boulevard. Sylvester stayed with the car, and the other three went off to look for help. They stopped about three miles away at the pizza parlor, a ramshackle fixture in Howard Beach, ordered some slices of pizza and sat down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Vs. White in Howard Beach | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

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