The deterioration of America’s major cities isn’t new to anyone who has been paying attention for the past few years. Sometimes, it seems only a matter of time before “Escape from New York” becomes a reality, but it wasn’t the fictional Snake Plissken that the father of a New York University student hired to protect his daughter, but instead a “security consultant.”
In other words, a bodyguard.
A protective Maryland father concerned about crime in the Big Apple hired what he called a “security consultant” to keep a watchful eye on his 19-year-old daughter — a freshman at New York University in Greenwich Village, where crime on or near campus has surged in the last three years.
“I was very apprehensive of New York, and I am worried about her,” confided the the 52-year-old real estate investor, who spoke on condition of anonymity. NYU was her “first and only” choice when…
