This is the apartment building of 345 on the very busy 86th Street and it just so happens to be next to the scene of Gour Tour stop number 27.
On June 16, 2002 Leona Rothman was living there and standing outside of the building when out of the blue, Ariel Garcia - who was wearing a wool mask and had on black gloves - plunged two steak knives into Rothman. Rothman was in her 60s was stabbed in her arms and chest, she was pronounced dead a few short hours later at a local hospital.
Teenagers witnessed what happened and followed Garcia to the local schoolyard and kept him in a corner by throwing pieces of wood at him until police arrived.
Garcia magically ended up receiving a plea bargain that gave him the light sentence of 15 years to life in prison.
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