[Roccus]

Maybe my memory is even worse than I think...but I have always blamed him for the beginning of the victimization of the feral “teens” who now rule the streets.

Yup! He claimed that Barry Allen, Troy Canty, Darrell Cabey and James Ramseur had merely "asked" for $5 while surrounding the seated Goetz.

And don't forget how his beloved ferals left him beaten, in his underwear in a street phone booth where he had to be rescued by the otherwise absent NYPD during the Crown Heights riots.

I would see him many a night draped over a barstool at Moochie's Bar 100 at Market Slip and South St. In later years his haunt was the Part II on Queens Blvd. He lived in the same building so he didn't have to crawl too far to get home.

[Fightin Whitey]

I live a long way from New York, but I was writing for newspapers way back when and he always seemed like a rum-dum bully.

The kind the cops would help home before, or after, he knocked someone down in a bar or on the street.