5. Park Central Hotel. 870 Seventh Avenue between 55th & 56th Street, Theater District, November 4, 1928. Arnold Rothstein is famous for fixing the 1919 World Series and being the true life basis behind the main character in the The Great Gatsby, Meyer Wolfsheim. On November 4, 1928 Rothstein was called to room 349 of the Park Central Hotel, while eating some cake close by. He was shot in the stomach as he entered the room. He saw the assailant but refused to talk during his two days of emergency treatment before he passed.
4. Catherine Genovese Murdered in Front of Queens Apartment in 1964. 82-70 Austin Street, Kew Gardens, Queens. Commonly known as Kitty Genovese, Catherine was stabbed and murdered in front of her apartment building in Kew Gardens, Queens in the middle of the night on March 13, 1964. Tragically, 38 people witnessed the crime from their apartment windows and the street, but no one alerted the authorities or did anything to stop the attacker. Scientific studies of her murder later called what happened the “bystander effect” or the “Genovese syndrome”.
3. Sparks Steak House. 210 East 46th Street, Midtown. Gambino Mob Boss Paul Castellano and driver Thomas Bilotti were gunned down in broad daylight days before Christmas on December 15th, 1985. The Manhattan midtown streets were crowded with holiday shoppers. John Gotti fellow Gambino crime family member, called the hit in order to take over as the boss.
2. Quad Recording Studios. 723 7th Avenue 10th Floor between 48th and 49th Street, Theater District. In 1994, 2Pac was shot with 5 bullets in the lobby of Quad Recording Studios by two armed men in army fatigues. Sean Combs (aka Puffy and P Diddy) and Biggie Smalls were accused of being behind the murder attempt but the evidence leading them has proven to be forged.
1. The Dakota. 1 West 72nd Street, Upper West Side. John Lennon was gunned down December 8, 1980. He was arriving home from his studio in his limo with Yoko Uno at The Dakota front entrance when confronted and shot 5 times by Mark David Chapman, who was obsessed with killing Lennon. The Dakota is still a building of private residences and Yoko lives there today.
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