Chapter 15Jimmy thought the scene was right out of a movie.
Flashing red lights, blue-pained barricades with the NYPD letters stenciled in white. The sirens had been quieted, the tension commanding the street. Two ambulances were in attendance, as well as a swarm of cop cars. Officers in uniform, too many to count, flooded the area, all wearing determined expressions. This was the NYPD, ready to act, to stop a crime in progress and do so without injury to innocent bystanders. Curious pedestrians lined the sidewalk, pushed behind those barricades that blocked off 34th Street. Traffic had been cleared, leaving the usually busy thoroughfare that cut through Midtown eerily empty. Four news vans were parked near the end of the street. He recognized the familiar logos from ABC’s Eyewitness News
