According to the police, officers had received a report of bottle-throwing at a building at 172d Street and Audubon Avenue.

About 7:20 p.m., the police responded to a report of a man with a gun at West 174th Street and Audubon Avenue.

George Washington High School was built and opened in 1919, and then moved into the current building at 549 Audubon Avenue in 1925.

"It takes me 35 minutes, 40 tops," she said as she sat in traffic at the corner of Audubon Avenue and 173rd Street.

She turned and saw a neighbor, Ricky Santiago, fall down dead a few feet outside on Audubon Avenue.

There were also reports that a man had been pulled from his car and beaten by a crowd at West 166th Street and Audubon Avenue.

Workers and customers at several stores said a botánica at 182nd Street and Audubon Avenue sold it.

About midnight on a recent Sunday, three strollers stood unoccupied at Audubon Avenue and 178th Street.

These events unfolded on Audubon Avenue in Washington Heights.

In her rocking chair, the woman on Audubon Avenue kept her eye fixed on the window.