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Literary Reportage >>> Bed Stuy Do Or DIE
Literary Reportage
Bedford Stuyvesant, better known as 'Bed Stuy', has long been notorious for its gangland antics. Ruled jointly by the the 'Bloods' and the 'Crips' it is not uncommon for rival drug feuds to spill onto the streets. But with violence rife and incomes low (meaning no health insurance), it is the Bed Stuy 'Volunteer' Ambulance Core that often arrives first at the scene of a violent shooting.

They receive neither money nor thanks for their trouble. Still, they are out there risking their own lives. Not for the love of God, but simply because somebody has to.

"I here to let you know son,” a member of the 'Bloods' says to Ron, a volunteer working on a gun shot victim,“if my brother dies on the back of this ambulance - so do you.”

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IMAGES: Michael Sofronski

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