New York scandals: A brief guide to notorious NYC crimes

New York’s history is long, colorful and, inevitably, chock-full of creepy, somewhat icky true-crime anecdotes. Here, Time Out New York has compiled some of the city’s lesser-known—but no less abhorrent—scandals, including the death of a scuzzy punk rocker, a mob hit gone bad and a dark spot in the Bronx Zoo's past.

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