A bloody scene unfolded outside an apartment building on 690 Allerton Ave. just after 2 p.m. in Allerton, Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Police say it was unclear if the two men were attacked with a “stick or baton.”<\/p>\n
Neighbors just went about their day, stepping over the crime scene to catch the afternoon train.<\/p>\n
“Violence has become normal,” said Val inside his car, inches from the blood stained sidewalk. “No one blinks an eye at it.”<\/p>\n
But to Artie and Stan, this one hit close to home. <\/p>\n
“When we was young, we played in the street sunup to sundown,” Artie said. “These kids don’t play in the streets no more.”<\/p>\n
The two became friends decades ago\u2014 playing stoop ball on the same blocks\u2014 but now walk those streets wondering what changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just straight to violence,” Artie added. “Everything is a knife or a gun.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCause that\u2019s what they know,\u201d Stan said, shaking his head. <\/p>\n
EMS took both men to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Jacobi, where they are expected to recover, according to authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bloody scene unfolded outside an apartment building on 690 Allerton Ave. just after 2 p.m. in Allerton,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-199422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}