
The victim was bandaged and sent home, and might make it to March, which is when he turns 100. (The attacker was arraigned and also sent home.) Surviving is what Pulwers does: he was once an inmate of Stalin's forced labor camps. What shocked him most about the attack, he told Courier Life, was that he thought it was a fellow Jew attacking him.
A commenter on Sheepshead Bites puts the imbroglio in perspective: "do not mess with sheepshead bay people. we kick ass." That includes gays, by the way. (Be proud, Sheepshead!)