Ash Kelley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's very sad and very tragic and trigger warning because it's like very brutal.
So let's talk about first who Kitty Genovese was.
Catherine Kitty Genovese was born July 7th, 1935.
She was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
She was the oldest of five children born to Vincent and Rachel Genovese.
Of the five Genovese children, quote, Kitty was the talker, bright eyed and full of pep.
The family was definitely not well off financially.
And, you know, life could be a little difficult.
They're in a cramped Brooklyn apartment together.
And think about New York apartments right now, and there's seven people in there.
But they generally, like, they got along with each other, and they cared for one another best they could.
By the time she reached high school in the fall of 1949, Kitty was definitely one of the more popular girls in school.