Traveling downtown on an express subway train on Dec. 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a 37-year-old White engineer living in New York’s Greenwich Village, warily eyed four Black teenagers - Barry Allen, ...

Traveling downtown on an express subway train on Dec. 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a 37-year-old White engineer living in New York’s Greenwich Village, warily eyed four Black teenagers — Barry Allen, ...

On Dec. 22, 1984, a loner named Bernhard Goetz shot four Black teenagers on a New York City subway, saying they were trying to mug him. The incident sparked an international debate about crime, fear, ...

This world lost an amazing person when we lost Beau Goetz. Beau brought us joy with his smiles, and amazement at his cleverness. He was a hard worker--always going the extra mile to get things done to ...

The sharpened screwdrivers, memorable and imaginary, tell a lot of the story. Three days before Christmas 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a 37-year-old electrical engineer living on 14th Street, got on a ...

Topsy turvy. In/out. Up/down. Left/right. What, which, how our country is today, who knows. I only know what it was when it worked. Newspapers wrote recently about the “subway vigilante” — 1984’s ...

Without Trumpism, Democrats and anti–Donald Trump conservatives tell themselves, America can once again be the nation it always was. This political moment, many feel certain, is an aberration, an ...

Subway vigilante Bernie Goetz is back in the spotlight as two new books examine the 1984 incident in which he shot four Black teenagers on a New York City train. Goetz has said he fired because he ...

Two new books return to the ’80s-era saga of Bernie Goetz to consider the 21st-century intersections of race, crime and sensationalism. By David Segal Bernie Goetz is still here. The white man who ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. During Jim Goetz’s first year at Yale Law School, his roommate talked incessantly about Princeton ...

Kevin Goetz, the founder and CEO of Screen Engine, has a new book out, How to Score in Hollywood: Secrets to Success in the Movie Business from Simon & Schuster’s Simon Element imprint. Blending ...