In the immediate aftermath of the death of Jordan Neely after he was choked by Daniel Penny on the floor of an uptown F train 18 months ago, parallels were floated to the shooting of four Black ...

Nearly 40 years before former Marine Daniel Penny captured headlines for the death of Jordan Neely, another case brought questions of crime and self-defense to the forefront of the national dialogue.

Traveling downtown on an express subway train on Dec. 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a 37-year-old White engineer living in New York’s Greenwich Village, warily eyed four Black teenagers - Barry Allen, ...

Crime isn’t what it was in the 1980s. But a new podcast about the Bernhard Goetz subway shootings suggests that even then, the fear of crime outpaced reality. By Ginia Bellafante Ginia Bellafante ...

Elliot Williams introduces his new book "Five Bullets." In 1984, in a New York subway car, Bernie Goetz opened fire on four black teenagers who he claimed were trying to rob him. At a time when fears ...