“And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: ‘Give me light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’ “And he replied: ‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.

Don’t mess with 71-year-old Linda Rosa. Four teens tried to steal her purse as she was exiting a Brooklyn subway station, and it didn’t end well — for them. As Rosa tells it, she grabbed two ...