Elliot Williams
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443 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Elliot Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If New York was in bad shape, the South Bronx was in catastrophic shape.
The mid-1980s were a quite significant period of transition.
Certainly, just about everything withdrew as the city tightened its belt.
They were all between 18 and 19 years old and lived in a subsidized housing project called Claremont Village in the Bronx.
I tried to speak to all of the surviving young men.
Two of the four are surviving.
I tried very hard to speak to them.
I got as close as speaking to two of Daryl KB's sisters for the book, but they did not want to be on the record or quoted in the book, and I respected that.
We know that Barry Allen was a young father.
We know Daryl Cabe ultimately is raised for most of his childhood by only his mother because his father, who had been working as a taxi driver, had been crushed by his own cab in a carjacking.
And his mother very much wanted more for him, wanted him to get away from all of the pressures and troubles of the South Bronx to sort of find a better life.
But I will note, it was not that they were the sort of street gang who were out marauding or wilding or whatever else.
This was a common act that teenagers did.
You're talking liquor stores, bodegas, bowling alleys.
It was painfully easy for someone with a long screwdriver and a little ingenuity to just pop it open and run away with all of that money in it.
And in many respects was cleaner or safer than mugging or robbing someone.
It wasn't that police were likely to move heaven and earth to try to track down a kid with $80 of quarters in his pocket.
And even if you got caught, you wouldn't go to jail for a long time.
They got on, they jumped the turnstile in the South Bronx.
They were goofing off.
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