Cynthia Littleton Business EditorEven for jaded New Yorkers, it was a shocking murder. For the television industry, the shooting thirty years ago today of 33-year-old advertising sales executive John Reisenbach was a gut punch and wake-up call.Around 11:40 p.m.
on July 30, 1990, during a peak of the crime wave that plagued in the New York City in the 1980s and early ’90s, Reisenbach was gunned down in an apparent robbery while he was using a pay phone in a booth around the corner from his apartment in the West Village.
He was struck three times, twice in the chest and once in the leg, by .38-caliber bullets.Reisenbach’s co-worker and intended business partner, Larry Schatz, was on the other end of the phone at the time and heard what.
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