Midtown High School Fight Leaves Two Stabbed

Yesterday morning, two teens were stabbed on West 58th Street. The Post reports that two girls had gotten "into a beef on Wednesday and told their boyfriends, who got together to rumble yesterday." The NY Times says that two boys were attacked by 11 other teens.

The fight occurred outside 220 West 58th Street, where Landmark High School and Coalition School for Social Change share a building. Shopkeepers locked their stores; one told the Post, "We are a little bit scared sometimes by these kids...There were so many cops. They were all over the place. This is a regular thing."

The two teens are in stable condition. In December, one student was killed and two others were injured when a brawl broke out in Union Square between students from Washington Irving High School and Brooklyn's Science Skills High School; apparently some female students at Irving were insulted and brought their boyfriends from Science Skills to defend their honor.

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By Jen Chung in News on January 12, 2007 11:57 AM

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susan

I think that tho=is fight is really pathetic, no one even won, it looked like a cat fight!!

Think twice

With cornball names like "Landmark High School", "School for the Physical City", "Coalition School for Social Change", and (omg) "School of the Future" one would assume these were magnet schools attracting the best and brightest to experience Manhattan during their formative years.

But no, these are remedial schools that are centrally located in great urban neighborhoods solely to corral the city's vandals, delinquents, and semi-literate and force them on the workers and businesses around Midtown.

Here I was spending my high school years wallowing in an East New York backwater thinking that only gifted and the lucky got to go to school in Manhattan like the kids in "Fame". Turns out all I needed to be was a stupid, obnoxious, belligerent ghetto-rat.

Al Sharpton

Tsk Tsk. Typical White kids. Why can't they take the african american community's example?

S. Sondheim

The trouble is he's lazy

The trouble is he drinks

The trouble is he's crazy

The trouble is he stinks

The trouble is he's growing

The trouble is he's grown

Krupke, we've got troubles of our own!

Aristocrat

"Hello, New York Post? 1956 called. They want their cliches back."

LOL, I wonder if Clancy and the boys came in the Paddy Wagon and surrounded the ruffians.

Marilyn

I work in this area and it seems like the place is crawling with ghetto schools. You see these kids everywhere.

null

When you're a jet you're a jet all the way

Peter

Young people are our future.

God help us.

hum-de-hum

I'm glad to see that students across the city are excelling in their AP Stupidity courses.

Joe

interesting lessons they are learning at the School for Social Change.

ed_Extinct

um.... where's al sharpton to condemn this?

Irritated

"The Post reports that two girls had gotten "into a beef on Wednesday and told their boyfriends, who got together to rumble yesterday."

Hello, New York Post? 1956 called. They want their cliches back.