Towing and Owing

By ALEX MINDLIN, NY Times, Published: November 20, 2005

Over six weeks in September and October, Stephen Murray returned half a dozen times to a bleak little parking lot in Jackson Heights, a wedge of concrete facing a low-rise row of stores. On a recent rainy evening, Mr. Murray surveyed the lot and said matter-of-factly, "Here's the scene of the crime."...