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This is the Pearl Room.

I’ve heard nothing but good things about the food there and yet I have never tried it due to the blasting sounds of techno music that I hear coming from it whenever I pass it - call me crazy, but blasting techno and sit down food just don’t jive with me.

Anyway, the Pearl Room is a double store front restaurant that sits on a slope with traffic running from right to left in front of it.

On November 1, 2008 Mousa Alijahmi, 17, was working a shift parking cars as a valet when he pulled up a minivan for a customer who was leaving the restaurant and then hopped out to move another car.

He apparently didn’t put the minivan in park and left it in reverse instead - apparently.

When Alijahmi noticed the minivan moving slowly in reverse he was on the passenger side of the minivan.  The high school track star and body builder ran in between the minivan and a parked car to try and stop the minivan from slowly going uphill in reverse.

Alijahmi never made it back into the driver seat of the minivan and instead found himself crushed between the minivan slowly going in reverse uphill and a parked car.

Let me repeat this again, the 17 year old valet who was a star runner was crushed by a minivan going UPHILL SLOWLY IN REVERSE when he tried to run in between it and a parked car - maybe some eight feet or so.

I recall NYPD fliers posted against the trees outside the Pearl Room looking for any witnesses to such an obscure and almost unimaginable accident, and I guess there were none for this has always been labeled an accident caused by Alijahmi’s own mistake.

Very sad circumstances all around and yet the given circumstances surrounding the event still don’t make sense to me.