NY voice coach is killed in street attack
NewsThe well-known Broadway singing coach Barbara Maier Gustern has died, a week after being pushed to the ground in an unprovoked attack at 8.30pm on a Manhattan street. Police have issued video of her suspected assailant.
Barbara, who was 87, was working on a new show that evening in her apartment with Barbara Bleier, Paul Greenwood and playwright Austin Pendleton.
Police said a female suspect shoved Gustern to the ground where she hit her head, then ran off. No arrest has been made.
There is an outpouring of grief from Broadway singers on Barbara’s home page.
Sad news. New York is becoming a lawless madhouse. It’s one of my favourite cities, but I am reluctant to visit at the moment.
I don’t blame you. It is not worth the risk.
Crime like this is taking place not only in New York, but Seattle and Los Angeles as well.
You can add Portland OR, Philadelphia and Baltimore to the list as well. Toss in San Francisco for an obscene amount of homelessness if not physical assaults.
Detroit might actually be looking a tad better now, compared to these seven miserable metropoles.
Their city councils all have something in common, too. Coincidence?
If you are pointing put that they are Democratic, then I infer that any uptick in lawlessness is because of the inability of their opponents to accept anyone other than one of their own as leaders.
These bitter, uninformed, uneducated (because they refuse to listen to anything except their own propagandists) malcontents are responsible for a great deal of the violence in that infected country.
Thank you so much for posting this.
unproved or unprovoked attack?
Very sad to see this. A younger person can be shoved to the ground and hurt, but with much less potential for a fatal injury. I hope I will not be walking unescorted on city streets, regardless of how safe they are, at such an elderly and typically fragile stage of life as hers.