Kitty Genovese was on Faber’s mind when she wrote “The Department.” The novel follows Neil Weber, a philosophy professor at a ...

New Yorkers have long been haunted by the story of Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender who was raped and stabbed outside her apartment building in Queens in 1964. The most harrowing part of ...

The 1964 death of Kitty Genovese profoundly affected my life. I never met the young woman, but her name has lived in my heart for 60 years. So, when CBS Sunday Morning mentioned her name last weekend, ...

The murder of a 28-year-old bar manager named Kitty Genovese 50 years ago this week is one of America's most famous crimes, appearing in psychology textbooks as a classic example of the "bystander ...

On 13 March 1964 Kitty Genovese was murdered in Queens, in New York. Kitty was attacked in the early hours of the morning outside her apartment block. It was reported at the time that dozens of ...

Later, she would become interested in the 1964 Kitty Genovese case, in which a woman was murdered outside of her New York apartment. At the time, the New York Times reported that 37 people ...