Ryan Thoresen Carson had a lot in common with Daniel Penny.
It’s likely Carson would not have thought so and Penny wouldn’t think so: Penny is a former Marine, and Carson was a poet. But both were idealistic young men drawn to New York City. Both had their lives transformed — in Carson’s case ended — by New York City’s failure to deal with its growing crisis of street violence.
Carson, 31, an environmental-policy researcher at the New York Public Interest Research Group, came to New York from Massachusetts in 2010 and set about trying to make the city a better place.
He thought every life was worth saving: In addition to environmental work, he called on then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2021 to reduce drug deaths. “Overdose deaths are largely preventable,” he wrote.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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