Midwood
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Sep 13, 2026
Tanya GiddensGUEST
I was like, yes.
Tanya GiddensGUEST
And then my parents were like, really? Really? Like, we think you should go to Midwood because it was in Brooklyn.
Tanya GiddensGUEST
My sisters went to Midwood and which, by the way, had one of the greatest musicians, underrated musicians ever, the one and only Kashif, who my sisters went to school with.
Tanya GiddensGUEST
You don't know Kashif, you better learn.
Tanya GiddensGUEST
So I was like, dang, I don't want to go there.
Esther ChehebarHOST
So she couldn't wear canvas sneakers on Yom Kippur.
Esther ChehebarHOST
So every single year, we would go to the Payless on Kings Highway in Midwood.
Esther ChehebarHOST
She is a size like 5.
Esther ChehebarHOST
And we would ransack those.
William SonsteinHOST
It is a famous pizza place on J...
William SonsteinHOST
Is it J Avenue or J Street? In Midwood.
William SonsteinHOST
My son lives there.
William SonsteinHOST
I've never heard of it.
Richard ObedianHOST
Different parts of
William SonsteinHOST
Italy have different pizzas.
William SonsteinHOST
You know, there is actually a little Haiti, actually, in Brooklyn, right near where my son, right near Midwood, actually.
Yasmin PetroniGUEST
Okay.
Brian LehrerHOST
Let's see.
Brian LehrerHOST
Peter in Midwood.
Brian LehrerHOST
You're on WNYC.
Brian LehrerHOST
Hi, Peter.
Fahad AhmedGUEST
We found a Salman Hamdani in the detention center, and it turned out to be a 53-year-old man.
Fahad AhmedGUEST
Um, and you know, th- there was just tons of these stories of particular neighborhoods, a- and in particular in New York City, Midwood and Bay Ridge, that there was just large numbers of men that just disappeared.
Fahad AhmedGUEST
Um, and so, and, and it was really disappearance because as I mentioned, people would go to work and not come home.
Fahad AhmedGUEST
And so the, the campaign that we launched was Stop the Dis- Disappearances campaign.
CarlosHOST
And this is a true story.
CarlosHOST
Around 7.40 in Midwood, two teenagers displayed a gun outside a fast food restaurant on East 16th Street and tried to take what they could from him.
CarlosHOST
He ran, and minutes later on East 15th Street, they walked up to a 23-year-old sitting in his car, pulled him out at gunpoint, and left in the vehicle.
CarlosHOST
A short time after that in Marine Park, they did the same to a 54-year-old woman.
CarlosHOST
Two people approaching a driver's window is not a conversation starting.
CarlosHOST
It is a problem arriving.
CarlosHOST
The Midwood victim had legs and used them.
CarlosHOST
The two people in the cars had a steering wheel and did not get to use it.
Bridget QuinnHOST
A wild scene in Brooklyn last night as police chased down a couple of alleged car thieves.
Bridget QuinnHOST
This all happened about seven forty-five in Midwood.
Bridget QuinnHOST
Police say the suspects pulled a gun on a man in a parked car on East Fifteenth Street near Avenue O and pulled him from the driver's seat.
Bridget QuinnHOST
They took off.
Linda LopezHOST
Police in Brooklyn opened fire on a teenager who they say went on a violent crime spree across the borough with carjackings and robberies.
Linda LopezHOST
This all started Tuesday night in Midwood when two teenagers tried to rob a man at gunpoint, then carjacked another man minutes later.
Linda LopezHOST
One sixteen-year-old was arrested after that stolen car crashed in Canarsie.
Linda LopezHOST
The other went on to carjack a fifty-four-year-old woman in Marine Park and later used that car to try to run officers down.
Fahad AhmedGUEST
We found a Salman Hamdani in the detention center, and it turned out to be a 53-year-old man.
Fahad AhmedGUEST
Um, and, you know, there was just tons of these stories of particular neighborhoods, uh, and in particular in New York City, Midwood and Bay Ridge, that there was just large numbers of men that just disappeared.
Fahad AhmedGUEST
Um, and so...
Fahad AhmedGUEST
And, and it was really disappearance because, as I mentioned, people would go to work and not come home.
Fahad AhmedGUEST
We found a Salman Hamdani in the detention center, and it turned out to be a 53-year-old man.
Fahad AhmedGUEST
Um, and, you know, th- there was just tons of these stories of particular neighborhoods, uh, and in particular in New York City, Midwood and Bay Ridge, that there was just large numbers of men that just disappeared.
Fahad AhmedGUEST
Um, and so...
Fahad AhmedGUEST
And, and it was really disappearance because, as I mentioned, people would go to work and not come home.
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