Broadway and Sixth Avenue were the major thoroughfares. 2 “APARTMENT FIRE KILLS BRONX BOY” AND OTHER HEADLINES: New York Daily News, April 6, May 4, 5, 6, 1994. 3 CHRISTOPHER SENT TO JUVENILE DETENTION, HIS SUBSEQUENT SENTENCES AT RIKERS ISLAND: Children in New York younger than sixteen are brought before a family court and, if the judge so determines, may be sent to juvenile detention. On rare occasions, children thirteen to fifteen years of age who commit very serious and violent crimes may be tried as adults, but Christopher’s early offenses never warranted his being tried in adult court. Christopher was eighteen, or nearly so, before he began the first of his several sentences at Rikers Island. (Information on court disposition of youthful offenders according to their ages and severity of the offense is provided, under the heading of “New York City Family Court,” on the website of the New York State Unified Court System, in a posting dated January 31, 2008.) Attorney Steven Banks, at Legal Aid in New York City, verified my understanding of this information.
