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This is the hill atop Owls Head Park - aka Bliss Park.  It’s a natural hill that’s part of the glacial ridge left behind from the last ice age.

It is also the scene of the fiery death that a homeless man met late in December of 2008.

It was a cold and windy night atop the hill, and he was apparently trying to keep warm by way of numerous candles lit up around him when the wind caught a flame and ignited the man himself.

No word on how the wind didn’t just blow the candles out like it would have on just about any other day…

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.

This home looks like many other homes in Bay Ridge and while the exterior shows recent renovations, what it doesn’t show is the reason why…

Early on the morning of February 6, 2007 a space heater set off a fire that killed two young children were unable to escape from.

Aya Khawatini, 4, and her sister Fatin Lazhir, 2, were not as fortunate as their two other young sisters and older relatives.

While some things in life are hard, the death of one’s child must be the hardest.

I can only hope that this very unfortunate instance is one of those things that happen for a reason and that their family has been blessed in many ways since such a tragedy.

This is a club called Nox.  It’s located on 4th Avenue between 93rd and 94th Streets.  It is only the latest incarnation of many guido clubs at the location, which was once owned by a guy who killed a guy.

I believe that it was called Club Turqoise at the time of gore.

In any event, early in the morning on an April day in  2002,  Darninka Rachamin got into his Ferrari drunk, and sped down towards the Belt Parkway along 4th Avenue.

Within five blocks Rachamin had the Ferarri up to 100 mph, and unfortunately struck Howard Mazariegos here at the intersection of 99th and 4th Avenue.  Mazariegos was struck so hard that he leg was severed completely, and he died.

If my memory serves correct from the news that day, the Ferrari didn’t come to stop until two blocks later when it ended up running into a cement bench in Cannonball Park.

Rachamin was held on $1,000,000 bond, and ended up taking a plea to 2nd degree manslaughter - receiving seven to 20 years in state prison.

Rachamin almost escaped his prison sentence by a loophole in the NYS prison system, and had sought an early release so that he could be deported to freedom back to his native Israel.

Thankfully the NYS prison system listened to the Mazariegos family and denied Rachamin’s request for early release, leaving Rachamin to rot in prison for several more year.

If you drink, don’t drive - it’s that simple!

The Lone Star Bar & Grill sits in between Gore Tour stops #11 and #19  on 5th Avenue near 87th Street. 

While the Lone Star is a fairly new bar, the location has been many a bar over the years.

In December 2006 two young men left the bar - back when it was called the Kilcar House Bar - at the late night hour of 3AM.  As the two left, they were stabbed by a group of thugs, apparently over some sort of prior feud between the two groups.

In case you haven’t noticed a running theme throughout our Gore Tour, when people are planning on going out for some drinks in Bay Ridge they tend to not leave home without their knives.

Be careful out there kiddos!

This is the corner of 69th and 3rd Avenue, directly across the street from Gore Stop #22.  The storefront has been an eye care center for years, but long, long ago - some 80 years ago it was the scene of gore.

In 1928, bootlegger Vannie Higgins and his gang, ended up mixed up in a gun battle with the local police. 

During the shootout Patrolman Daniel Maloney was accidentally shot and killed by another policeman.

I doubt anyone alive even remembers this actually happening…

This is the corner of 92nd Street and 4th Avenue. 

Many of you who watch the NYC Marathon each year might recognize the building as being where the lead runners usually turn onto 4th Avenue. 

For some odd reason the outside of this corner apartment building draws flesh eaters of the human kind.  If you ever are out late at night and decided that getting your eat bitten off sounds like a good idea - then this is the spot for you to go!

Over the years I’ve seen numerous reports in the local papers along these similar lines, “young man’s ear bitten off at 2AM” for this location. 

Probably a half a dozen ears to my memory have been ripped and bitten off over the years - sadly, Google cannot find any…

Thankfully the corner deli doesn’t sell Ear Soup!

These are the on ramps to the Verrazano Narrows Bridge viewed from Fort Hamilton Parkway at around 100th Street.  The westbound side is closest in this shot, and it is the scene of gore. 

In September of last year these ramps were undergoing major construction.  The entire right lane was in the process of being redone.  At the time you could drive in the center lane, look right, see both a wooden catwalk, and at some portions look directly down through the steel of the bridge.

On one fateful day, construction worker Manuel Pereira was busy doing his job as safely as he could while on that temporary wooden catwalk.  Out of the blue one of the four ton cement barriers that was supposed to be protecting the construction workers fell over - landing on the catwalk.

This mysterious four ton cement barrier topple caused Manuel Pereira to fall off the catwalk, some 100 feet to his death.

He was just trying to do his job…

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.

This is a local bar aptly named “Speakeasy”.  It’s located on 5th Avenue at 95th Street. 

Besides being the backdrop to numerous nonlethal stabbings, including one earlier this month when two strangers walked in and stabbed a guy in the chest and back, it was the scene of at least one lethal stabbing. 

Now unfortunately this one falls under the “cannot figure google and the news out” by way of their lack of cooperation for locating any news stories of this, it apparently happened at some point in the last two or so years. 

The basics were that two young guys got into an argument outside of Speakeasy, and ended up stabbing each other, only one of them actually landed a mortal wound.

Senseless…

This is 86th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenue.  The Fedders building in the center with the odd staircase was once the scene of gore.

This scene of gore falls into the sad sad land of “Ungoogleable” - I just cannot find any information on it, but I know that it happened.

It was either in the very late 80s or perhaps very early 90s, the Fedders weren’t there, and in their place was an apartment building.  If memory serves correct I believe that it was early a Sunday evening when out of the blue the building completely collapsed.

I’m talking multiple stories of apartments piled down all on top of one another - leaving at least one person dead inside. 

What a way to go…

This is an apartment building on the narrow and sleepy 100th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues.

On July 19, 2007 this building was the scene of a horrible death.  The building superintendent found Magdy Okelly in his third floor apartment around 8:30AM bound with duct tape, beaten and stabbed to death.

Several men and a woman were seen leaving his apartment.  Last I heard, nobody has ever been caught and charged with this heinous act of violence.