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.