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In April, Bob Lederer, a middle-aged gay-rights activist, suffered a traumatic brain injury after being beaten by a group of young teenagers. Catch up on the most important headlines with a roundup of essential NYC stories, delivered to your inbox daily. Its stigmatizing young men and boys. As part of Albanys new budget agreement, all newly constructed buildings would have to produce zero-emissions, barring oil and natural gas. The boy answered yes. The safest course was to bypass it completely. This past September, Brad Taylor wrote his umpteenth email to Mark Levine, the city councilmember for the area, begging for three full-time Parks patrols to be dedicated to Morningside. This is one of the people who insisted that all of the memorials for Tess be named celebrations, that they be saturated with music Sly & the Family Stone and Paul Simon and Violent Femmes that people dance and sing if so moved, that the lyrics to Prom Queen, Tesss song about falling in love with a girl, be printed on the back of the program. Majors was attacked by as many as three people shortly after she entered Morningside Park, Rodney Harrison, NYPD Chief of Detectives, said during a Thursday news conference. Aug. 12, 2011. Will Biden Get Embarrassed in Iowa and New Hampshire? Tess was just supersmart, the kind of kid who loved Latin, who read From Beirut to Jerusalem at 15 on a family vacation, and who as a little girl catalogued all the indigenous wildflowers of Virginia, where she lived, but was not so into ticking boxes in any kind of rote or careerist way, this longtime intimate says. I personally did not pay attention, recalls Tehila Cherry, who is from San Diego. Up at Barnard, grief settled on the campus like a fog. There have been 21 reported muggings in. The boy and his friends ducked into the vestibule of a building on 119th Street, and together with two other officers, Ramos-Luna followed them in. And the paper, when she wrote it, was in the form of a letter to Tess on the subject of appropriate justice for the alleged perpetrators: What would justice look like in your case, Tess? The administration held listening sessions. In that case, on Dec. 5, a 19-year-old man was robbed near 114th Street and Riverside Drive by two men who fled the park afterward, cops said. "It is their responsibility as an institution to not just tell them about the great things of this city, but to also talk to them about the possibility of dangers," Sekou added. Around the park, as everywhere in the city, gentrification has remained a source of tension. (Tess apparently did have a bag of marijuana in her pocket when she encountered the boys, but the altercation was not part of a drug deal.) This same boy, the one who was bitten (and who police say robbed another man at knifepoint that same week), then stabbed Tess with enough force that the youngest boy, who was standing apart, could see feathers shooting out of Tesss down jacket I think it was purple, he said. Hughes isnt just a Columbia undergraduate; thanks to a series of provocative essays on race in America for Quillette, hes also become, over the past several years, a hero of the intellectual dark web, a loose group of thinkers who reject the shibboleths of liberal culture (while keeping some distance from the Trump-era right). (In the upcoming trials, we will see all this, she promised.) She said that Morningside Park's risks were so well known in her circle of friends. She was a first-year, one of them. Teen pleads guilty in murder of Barnard student Tessa Majors The uncle responded with disbelief and something like fury. And then there were the parents of older children who were friends with these kids, who might have invited them home. There was nothing specifically that I can remember about, Dont go in Morningside Park after dark, says Sasha Hochman, who is from Philadelphia. For the fifth time, Judge Goldstein denied the boys parole. Challenging, said a Barnard administrator. 'An unthinkable tragedy': College freshman stabbed to death at park Expect email shortly, including information about counseling hours. In the dorms, the first-years began to panic, Oh my God, holy shit, it could be anyone. Crime statistics show more robberies have been reported in Morningside Park this year than any other city park. The email was sincere, even anguished, but these two little words, off campus, reflected a lawyers touch, a self-protective assertion, in writing, defining the costs and risks of living in a big city as beyond the jurisdiction of the college recruiting students there. And the language was like, Boys are running around, jumping people, beating up people in the park. Some people even said the police were swabbing their childrens mouths and taking their picture. She was disarmingly direct. A longtime Harlem homeowner looked at the police presence cynically, as a performance designed to quell the race-based anxieties of white people in Harlem and Morningside Heights. "I try to stay in safe places, places I know are . That its about looking at the whole system and asking why those teenagers were robbing people in the first place. "They would prey on people. You didnt want them to pick up a crack vial or a hypodermic needle. The site of the unbuilt Columbia gym was turned into a waterfall and pond in 1990, and the park's arboretum was added in 1998. It has a lot of empty seats, making it a convenient place for the Department of Education to dump troubled kids with nowhere to go. The teen suspect was charged as a juvenile with second-degree murder, armed robbery and criminal possession of a weapon with intent to use, according to a senior law enforcement official.