"Flaco"

A man known in the community as Flaco was riding his bike west on 153rd st across Melrose Avenue in the Bronx. Suddenly he was struck and killed by an southbound express bus traveling at a high speed. A friend who worked on that corner stayed by him until the ambulance came.

Flaco was well known in the neighborhood; recently he had fallen on hard times. The owner of a jewelry store reported to the New York Times that he had just taken a chain.

"He took it from here, and he was hit right over there," Mr. Singh said last night as he stood outside the shop, pointing to the intersection a block away. "He lost his life for $2,000. He'd sell it for maybe only two or three hundred. That makes no sense."

The necklace was never recovered.