It was only a matter of time before a visitor was murdered in Times Square. That victim was Maria Ambrocio, a 58-year-old New Jersey cancer nurse who came to New York City on Friday to have lunch with a friend. Afterward, she and her friend were walking through the heart of New York when an alleged mugger, 26-year-old Jermaine Foster, running on foot after having just robbed one woman in her apartment and another woman on the street, slammed into Ambrocio at high speed, knocking her unconscious. She died on Saturday. \u201cShe\u2019s gone,\u201d her brother told the New York Post<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Ambrocio\u2019s death wasn\u2019t a freak accident\u2014it was a predictable and preventable homicide. Times Square has been a mess for months. Last week, an illegally armed man accidentally shot himself while publicly urinating. The same day, a woman with a long record of similar violent, unprovoked assaults against other women shoved a stranger, another woman, into the side of a train, attempting (but failing) to kill her. In June, four muggers attacked yet another woman, stealing her phone. The same month, a 16-year-old boy allegedly shot a Marine, whom he didn\u2019t know, in the back. In May, an illegal vendor with a violent history shot and wounded two women and a girl. Last November, a homeless man stabbed another man to death nearby.<\/p>\n
I live just north of Times Square, and I avoid it. Friday afternoon, just an hour before Foster\u2019s deadly crime spree, I went out of my way to steer clear of the area. Yes, I know that the chances of any one person being a victim of a violent crime are low. But the chances that someone will block my way and attempt to \u201csell\u201d me a CD (read: try to scare me into giving him money); or that I\u2019ll have to quicken my pace to avoid a deranged person screaming; or that I\u2019ll see someone shooting up drugs; or that someone will make a crude comment\u2014these are more likely than not, on any given trip. Going to Times Square isn\u2019t worth it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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