MAFIOSO

Murder of Kitty Genovese

In the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was raped and stabbed outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens, New York, United States. Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times published an article erroneously claiming that thirty-seven witnesses saw or heard the attack, and that none of them called the police or came to her aid. The incident prompted inquiries into what became known as the bystander effect, or "Genovese syndrome", and the murder became a staple of U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Murder of Kitty Genovese has received more than 5,903,434 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Murder of Kitty Genovese is the 38th most popular mafioso (down from 37th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

5.9M
Page Views (PV)
61.60
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
23
Languages Editions (L)
3.17
Effective Languages (L*)
3.50
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Murder of Kitty Genovese ranks 38 out of 70. Before her are Richard Hauptmann, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, Richard Kuklinski, Frank Lucas, Sundance Kid, and Mickey Cohen. After her are Salvatore Maranzano, Robert Hanssen, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Salomon Morel, Giuseppe Morello, and Vincent Gigante.