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Stephen L. Tanenbaum, a 62-year-old man, died on February 11, 2011, after an ordinary Friday in New York City was shattered by a sudden act of street violence.

That afternoon in Brooklyn’s Midwood neighborhood, he was crossing near Ocean Avenue and Avenue R when a stolen car came barreling through the intersection. The driver was Maksim Gelman, already deep into a violent rampage that had begun earlier the same day. After rear-ending another vehicle and stabbing its driver during a car ...Read More
Victim Details

Stephen Tanenbaum

Male

White / Caucasian

Manhatten

NY

2011-02-11

62

Stephen

Tanenbaum

01/11/2026