Perspective
Jun. 6, 2015
Murder and the myth of urban apathy
Every teenage girl on the East Coast in the 1960s remembers the name Kitty Genovese, who was murdered as her neighbors watched but did nothing. In her new book, Marcia Gallo peels pack the layers of the crime. By Elaine Elinson
Every teenage girl on the East Coast in the 1960s - and there were millions of us
- remembers the name Kitty Genovese. Her name became the metaphor for the dangers
that lurked in the big city and the apathy of uncaring neighbors.
Kitty Genovese was the young woman who was raped and murdered in the middle of the
night outside her own apartment building in Kew Gardens,...
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