Chapter EighteenThe Copycat Killers
At 8 AM, New Yorkers were crowding into a Manhattan-bound A Train on the Jay Street-Borough Hall platform at downtown Brooklyn. They had used the connection for many decades, catching the F Train from South Brooklyn to where they switched to the A Train to commute to their Manhattan jobs. It was a time-honored route that allowed Brooklynites to work in NYC in districts from Wall Street to Columbus Circle. One characteristic trait was the hundreds of fashionably-dressed women wearing sneakers, carrying their high heels in sports bags that they would change into upon arrival.
Among the passengers were three black men, dressed identically in black hoodies, shirts, jeans and sneakers. They entered in separate doors on the last car, one at the front, middle
