Personal Narrative Essay: Argyle Road

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Just before sunrise, on Oct. 12, 2003, the residents of Argyle Road in Brooklyn were woken by gunfire.

Then, as now, such a thing was virtually unheard-of. The quiet street is in Prospect Park South, an architectural enclave of hundred-year-old trees, landmark homes and an urban gentry of lawyers, chefs and jewelry designers. With its air of Victorian charm, the neighborhood looks nothing like the rest of New York City. It seems like a nice Connecticut suburb, not the heart of Brooklyn.

But that morning, as the police arrived on Argyle Road — not coincidentally, in minutes — the worst came to pass: the body of a young man was discovered in a driveway just outside a Queen Anne house toward the end of the block. He was lying facedown on a bloody

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