Local Bay Ridge historian pens book about neighborhood crimes
A longtime Bay Ridge writer has penned a book about the dark side of his neighborhood over the past century.
Henry Stewart, vice president of the Bay Ridge Historical Society and a community Board 10 member, has always been a writer. After researching various historical findings of the neighborhood, he became inspired to write True Crime Bay Ridge, a collection of 11 historical stories of murder, kidnapping and more, all set in his backyard ranging from 1874 to 1957.
“I write a lot about non-crime related Bay Ridge history and I would be digging through newspaper archives looking at articles like the development of Shore Road and every once in a while I would come across an adjacent story that was about a murder or a kidnapping and they always distracted me from what I was trying to do,” he said.