This Is A Description Of A Fight That Occurred At The New York Athletic Club Friday Night
"Young people, old people, girls, members, nonmembers, it was a nondiscriminatory ragematch.” The witness’s note says that the initial fight seemed to have commenced over a woman, and escalated into a brawl involving three fighting “wolfpacks.” Tables were overturned or moved to the room’s periphery to create a “lion’s pit” for the battle. Other highlights, the witness wrote, included “probably 2 broken noses,” “glasses thrown,” tables overturned, a woman cut badly enough to require stitches, and a “fat pudgy kid” who came out of nowhere, laid out a larger man with a blow to the head, and was tackled by a crowd. The police, who arrived after much of the dust had settled, confirmed only the arrests of three men: Peter Doran, 28, of Glen Head on the North Shore of Nassau County, charged with misdemeanor assault and accused of punching a 49-year-old man in the face; Matthew O’Grady, 31, of neighboring Glen Cove, charged with the same and accused of hitting a 48-year-old man; and Colin Drowica, 30, also of Glen Head, charged with menacing and accused of threatening physical injury to a 58-year-old security guard. There is a Colin Drowica listed on Linkedin as a director at Knight Capital Group, and a brokerage database shows a Colin Drowica at Knight Capital who during a period of unemployment was based in Glen Head. [NYT via BI]
