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Foreign Woman Accuses Men Of Raping Her In Williamsburg Hostel After She Asked For Directions

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(The suspects, above, and the Glenwood Hotel lobby below.)

A 22-year-old woman visiting America on a work furlough stopped two men in Williamsburg to ask them for directions Thursday night around 2 a.m. Somehow, the men persuaded her to go to "a party," but police say they escorted her to the shady Glenwood Hotel, a cheap hostel with "rooms" resembling cubicles with chickenwire ceilings. There they allegedly raped her, along with two other accomplices.

Investigators have released these surveillance photos of the men, who are still at large. They're described as being 25 to 30 years old, and NBC New York reports that it's unclear how many of the men sexually assaulted her. She was permitted to leave after the alleged attack, and went to a hospital for treatment.

The Glenwood, located at 339 Broadway between 9th Street and Keap Street, does not sound like a fine place of lodging. New York says "each floor of the two-story building is a maze of wooden stalls, with a bed and little space for anything else. Board-thin partitions and makeshift ceilings made of chicken wire and heavy quilts lend little privacy." And one Yelp reviewer writes, "I had to change cubicles/rooms after I checked in, because my bed was infested... I could here every word of a South Park episode from a room/cubicle 100 feet away.. In the morning, I emerged from the floor's one shower to a woman vomiting all over the floor as she banged in vain on the doors of occupied toilet stalls."

The phone at the Glenwood appears to be disconnected.

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  • extradimensionalbeing
    What a terrifying experience.  Poor woman. Men suck.
  • hashedz
    "Men suck."
    If that's all that these men did to her she should consider herself lucky!
  • remyngtin
    welcome to Williamsburg
  • Bklynborne
    How about. A description of alleged rapist..
  • JacksBack72
    Places like this give NYCity's Bedbugs- a bad name!
  • you peeople you stayed here are truely not the sharpest knives in the drawer.  Have you never heard of the interwebs?  Christ on a cracker just google the shit hole and read the reviews.
  • birdtird
    gosh, once you let two cops in the e. village rape somebody it's like open season or somethin
  • cr17
    Wow, is that ever stupid AND insensitive.
  • birdtird
    not really
  • TheRealCannibal
    She was persuaded to go to a "party" by strangers she asked directions from at 2 am?  

    What an idiot.
  • i bet even your mother would tell you to fuck off
  • TheRealCannibal
    unlike your mother, she likes to get her fuck ON...
  • jisnotused
    haha. 

    VICTIM BLAMING. BAADD. 

    MUST REACT. NOWWW.
  • Guest
    Yeah, God forbid anyone have common sense.
  • Detex
    nah, he made a good point. not justifying a rape but who goes with strangers at 2am? Maybe if you are leaving a bar and you have talked to said guys all night but even then!
  • TheRealCannibal
    agreed Im a girl, and I would NOT have done this, its crazy!
  • not_blind
    Stayed here before moving to the city, attracted by its cheap rates and promise of "walls" between rooms (versus 16 beds in a hostel). Can attest that the whole place is infested with bed bugs. I didn't sleep & ended up standing in the lobby until dawn, not risking touching anything. Most other guests appeared to be transients and Euro backpackers who didn't know better (like myself).
  • TheRealCannibal
    You saw it and THEN stayed there?  Taking one look would be "knowing better"
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