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Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 40th day of the year.
ON THIS DAY IN 1950, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Flatbush Teen-Age Gang Seized, Admits 52 Crimes.”
The article focused on five teenage boys who were arrested for and admitted to committing 52 crimes, all against women, in Flatbush.
“After several hours of questioning they broke down, even going so far as to re-enact some of the crimes,” the Eagle reported. “The gang apparently had a code of honor of its own, for none of the youngsters would say a word about any of the others, detectives said.”