Breakingnews - central park 5 (wrongly convicted of rape) settle for 40 million

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4. 25 years later

Good for them. The New York papers should have to throw in an additional 20 mil for the horrendous railroading they participated in.

Those were crazy days in NYC - Howard Beach, Bensonhurst, Central Park jogger. The city was a warzone. I often ask people "When was NYC's highest murder rate and absolute numbers?" They almost always say "mid-to-late 70's." Nope. It was 1990-1991. For those of us who were young adults in the city in those days, it's nothing we'll ever forget. It was both terrifying and amazing. Intense, intense years: 1987-1994, New York City.