By Gus Saltonstall
A teenager was shot late Tuesday night on the Upper West Side, a police spokesperson confirmed to West Side Rag.
The 17-year-old was shot in the back about 11:20 p.m. near West 63rd Street and Amsterdam Avenue within the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Amsterdam Houses complex, police said.
The teen was rushed to Weill Cornell Medical Center in stable condition, where he is expected to survive.
There are no arrests as of Thursday morning, and no available details on what led up to the shooting, police said.
West Side Rag will update this story with any new information.
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At least the teen is expected to survive. There seem to be relatively a lot of such incidents in that area.
When the world around you is seemingly filled with excess and violence is glorified, it can be difficult to understand that patience, school and hardwork are the way to live your life. Success is not achieved through the quest for immediate gratification. This current culture along with limited family structure and support makes this a hard cycle to break.
The ready availability of guns turns stupid teenage/young adult beefs into deaths and felony charges.
And systemic racism
SO sad. What’s going to happen as we move forward? This way of life is of course sensationalized and therefor ‘encouraged’ by the Main-St-Media .. What a mess.
Some mainstream media have always featured these so-called lifestyes – that’s nothing new. And we don’t know whether this was a random act or was the result of some kind of altercation. Both are bad but there is a difference.
Why would they take him all the way to Weill Cornell when Mt. Sinai is right there? Minutes matter.
It has a Level 1 trauma center.