Mark Jacobson writes on how Frank James has taken his place in the gallery of New York villains
Photo: Raymond Chiodini There have always been plenty of ways to meet a violent end in the Big Apple. You can be thrown into a vat of wet cement by gangsters, step on an electrified manhole cover, get shot at 41 times by racist cops, or be sitting quietly at your desk on the 94th floor when a plane full of jihadis crashes through the window. But being the victim of a bullet-spraying, grievance-holding, internet-posting madman on the subway — it wasn’t a New York thing. Until now.
Another possibility is that, when push came to shove, James didn’t quite have it in him to become New York’s first subway mass murderer. He seems to have aimed low, hitting legs and feet rather than torsos, which would have been fatal. That was the moment James, a 62-year-old drifter, took his place in the gallery of New York villains. He could be “the Subway Shooter,” just as David Berkowitz was “the Son of Sam” and “the .44 Caliber Killer.” James joined his most obvious predecessor, Bernhard Goetz, “the Subway Vigilante,” who shot four young Black men he falsely claimed were trying to rob him on the 2 train in 1984. “You don’t look too bad.
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