Apparently you did not read the article.

Someone intervened immediately, yelling at Mosely and frightening him away.

Another someone called the police almost immediately, and told a dispatcher what he had seen and heard, and the location. But the police did not come; if they had, the second (fatal) attack would not have occurred.

Others did not know what was happening; they only heard or saw snippets of it and did not understand what was actually occurring.

Another woman, hearing the final, soon-to-be-fatal attack (which occurred in the lobby of the building), raced to help, potentially risking her own life.

38—or 36, or 40 people—did not WATCH the attack, as the Times asserted in that lede. Two people”watched” it and did nothing, as the linked article describes. The word “witnesses” doesn’t mean the people watched the thing unfold and understood what was happening. It means they later spoke to police about something they either saw or heard, in the case of the Genovese murder usually something quite minor and confusing.

The initial story was NOT accurate. Nor is your statement, “nobody called, nobody intervened.”

I wonder why you are so wedded to defending the Times and its original reporting.

Here’s plenty more [emphasis mine]:

Her cry was heard by several neighbors but, on a cold night with the windows closed, only a few of them recognized the sound as a cry for help. When Robert Mozer, one of the neighbors, shouted at the attacker, “Let that girl alone!” Moseley ran away and Genovese slowly made her way toward the rear entrance of her apartment building. She was seriously injured, but now out of view of any witnesses.

Records of the earliest calls [note plural] to police are unclear and were not given a high priority by the police. One witness said his father called police after the initial attack and reported that a woman was “beat up, but got up and was staggering around.”

Other witnesses observed Moseley enter his car and drive away, only to return ten minutes later. In his car, he changed to a wide-brimmed hat to shadow his face. He systematically searched the parking lot, train station, and an apartment complex. Eventually, he found Genovese who was lying, barely conscious, in a hallway at the back of the building where a locked doorway had prevented her from entering the building. Out of view of the street and of those who may have heard or seen any sign of the original attack, Moseley proceeded to further attack her, stabbing her several more times. Knife wounds in her hands suggested that she attempted to defend herself from him. While Genovese lay dying, Moseley raped her. He stole about $49 from her and left her in the hallway. The attacks spanned approximately half an hour.

A few minutes after the final attack a witness, Karl Ross, called the police. Police arrived within minutes of Ross’ call. Genovese was taken away by ambulance at 4:15 a.m. and died en route to the hospital. Later investigation by police and prosecutors revealed that approximately a dozen (but almost certainly not the 38 cited in the Times article) individuals nearby had heard or observed portions of the attack, though none saw or were aware of the entire incident. Only one witness, Joseph Fink, was aware she was stabbed in the first attack, and only Karl Ross was aware of it in the second attack. Many were entirely unaware that an assault or homicide was in progress; some thought that what they saw or heard was a lovers’ quarrel or a drunken brawl or a group of friends leaving the bar when Moseley first approached Genovese.

OK, it wasn;t 38 witnesses, it was 36 to 40 witnesses; they later came up with about 60 who were aware of an ‘altercation’. The attack came in two stages with a 5 minute break when Mozer yelled out the window.

But it was half an hour of a woman being stabbed to death, screaming almost all the while. The initial story was not technically perfect, but the story was accurate. The fact is nobody called, nobody intervened.

In effect, the NYC elite used this human tragedy to smear the NYC middle class.

They busted him because he wouldn’t disappear. Like Zimmerman, as obedient Democrats they followed the orders of the 911 operators. To certain doom.

When they arrested the miscreant’s slatternly girlfriend, she started with a spew of nonstop obscenities and profanities. The cops, bored, kept taking notes, and said, “Just keep it up. There you go,” and wouldn’t even bother to cuss her back. Then they bundled the pair into a cop car and drove off.

I’m sure there was some sort of plea deal, because they caught the guy red-handed (I’d heard the crash of broken glass and saw him vaulting in through the high window in the car park’s door: spotted his football jersey and the number as well. Black guy.) He had broken in, apparently to burglarize the cars in the garage of whatever he could find. His girlfriend was driving a beat up old car and was waiting in the street to drive him away after.

I have to say, it was VERY gratifying to be able to make that phone call! That was in, oh, 1990 or so, on 14th Street in Manhattan.

I once phoned 911 to report a fire — roof top — the building was under construction across the street.

The FIRST FIVE MINUTES of my call was directed at getting the ‘goods’ on me. So obvious was this, I realized why no-one else nearby dared pick up their cell phones.

The operator insisted that I provide a street address. I had none.

She wanted my address. I had none. I didn’t even remember the street I was calling from.

This argument went back and forth for two minutes. She was indignant that I wouldn’t cough up the street address. I finally raged at her:” Everything is new and under construction. There are absolutely no addresses on ANYTHING!”

Telling her it was within one-block of the I-50 freeway and a local major avenue was just not good enough.

I finally got her off the line by informing her that the local news helicopter had finally arrived. By this time a touch of smoke had transformed into towering flames five meters high! In a cloudless sky the smoke now reached to 100 meters.

As you might imagine, she sported a NAM accent.

I figure you only get ONE fire call in your life time.

Anything beyond that will have the authorities strip-searching you for matches.

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Putting slow-witted fools at the nexus of decision is the recipe of disaster.

Having inculcated such fools into attacking the honor and veracity of the general public… is the height of folly, itself.

The operative assumption that just anyone can answer a distress call is flamingly wrong.

“Lone Survivor” illustrates just how touchy it can be to be timely with a phone call. When news comes from an unexpected source or means — there is emotional-logical lock-up. Such events break up ones harmony, ones bliss.

In my case, playing phone games while the building is roaring into a full blaze — ’tis to torment.

But modern democracy in the US decrees that if you don’t understand how the microwave works, all you have to do is trust in the “experts” and everything will work out fine. That’s not the attitude of autonomous humans, btw.