If you have not heard about the murder of Tessa Majors, it is a sad story.

This is how the New York Post reported on her murder shortly after it happened early this month:

Barnard freshman Tessa Majors stabbed to death in NYC park

A Barnard College student was stabbed to death in an upper Manhattan park Wednesday by a group of men who had tried to rob her, police sources said.

Freshman Tessa Majors, 18, was discovered by a school security guard inside Morningside Park near West 116th Street and Morningside Drive around 5:30 p.m., according to the sources.

She had been beaten and stabbed by a group of three or four men at the base of some stairs.

Very quickly, more details emerged that changed made this even more horrific.

One of the suspects is 13-years-old, two others are 14-years-old.

Majors was put in a chokehold while the suspects emptied her pockets, she was then strangled and stabbed repeatedly.

These were young teenage boys who carried out this brutal robbery and murder.

So how did The New York Times report on this story?

A Park Shed Its Reputation. Then Came the Tessa Majors Murder.

The park shed its reputation?  I guess it’s the park’s fault?

Morningside Park seems to jut up, like a narrow extension of Central Park, into Upper Manhattan — separating affluent Columbia University, in the elevated Morningside Heights neighborhood, from Harlem to the east.

“It’s literally the border between the Columbia community and Harlem,” said Amanda Ong, 21, a Columbia senior.

I know where this is going…

Somehow the Privilege of the Columbia University students juxtaposed against the poor black neighborhood of Harlem will be a factor.

The park was long considered to be a dangerous expanse, especially after nightfall. But as crime dropped over the years, so did those fears.

Crime just sort of dropped.  It had nothing to do with Rudy Giuliani, that Republican bastard, and his “broken windows” policing.

College students and professionals began moving into the rapidly gentrifying section of Harlem along the park’s east side, and using the land’s winding, wooded pathways to get access to the Columbia campus and its affiliated Barnard College.

He said “gentrifying.”  That’s the code word to let you know that Tessa Majors deserved it because other white people bought affordable homes to fix them up in areas set aside for black people.  Remember that Harlem is what it is because of Progressive Redlining.

But a recent rash of muggings and attacks in the park, culminating on Wednesday with the fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old Barnard student, Tessa Majors, has shattered that sense of safety and jolted both neighborhoods, recalling a time decades ago, when the city had more than 1,000 homicides a year.

Yep, the violence is coming back.  That has nothing to do with the Progressive, anti-Cop, socialist, piece-of-shit current Mayor of New York City legalizing what used to be quality of life crimes.

Tyrone Carter, 60, who works in a wine shop in Harlem, said that growing up in Harlem, he and his friends rarely ventured to Morningside Heights because it was “a different demographic.”

“People here lived through a heroin epidemic, a crack epidemic,” Mr. Carter said. “So being black in Harlem, some see it as invasion when young white up-and-comers start buying up buildings. I was born and raised in Harlem, and I can barely afford to live here now.”

If this was a white person in the Upper East Side of Manhattan complaining out black people moving in and changing the property values, the media would destroy that person overnight.

Kevin Gates, 42, a teacher and lifelong Harlemite, said he was shocked by the killing, but not surprised.

“This area may have changed cosmetically, but it’s still New York City,” he said. “Gentrification has brought an influx of restaurants and night life, so a lot of the new people moving in here see it as some playground or utopia. But some get a false sense of security and forget it is still New York City.”

I have heard this many times before: “authentic New York City is a dangerous shithole.”

Why do New Yorkers take a perverse pride in the gritty danger of their city?  Nowhere else do people say “you know what, I miss it when crime was high, you couldn’t walk the streets at night, and filthy homeless people were everywhere.”  What the fuck is wrong with New Yorkers?

Maria Lopez, 61, a longtime park neighbor, gazed at the crime scene and said, “When I was growing up, and even in my 20s, you never came to this park, daytime or nighttime.”

But now, she said, many newcomers exhibit a boldness that contrasts with the wariness that some older New Yorkers retain from more dangerous times.

“People with money think, ‘I have the right to walk through here,’” she said. “Old-timers would never do that.”

How dare taxpaying residents of a city feel entitled to use the public parks and pathways they paid for.  Don’t they know that those are taxpayer-funded hang-outs and thoroughfares for criminals?  Decent people should avoid them at all costs and let the criminals have their free space.

This is not how normal people in the rest of the country think.

This is why New Yorkers and Progressives in the media hate Stand Your Ground.  SYG makes the law-abiding citizen supreme to the criminal.  In NYC, parks are the criminals’ domain and aw-abiding citizens are subjects to the criminals, disarmed by the bureaucrats.