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* Was it another inflammatory racial crime of the kind that afflicted New York under its last three mayors, and that gave Tom Wolfe a bestseller? Officer Richard Neri, a housing cop, shot and killed Timothy Stansbury Jr., an unarmed 19-year-old, on the roof of the Louis Armstrong Houses in Brooklyn. The New York Times, among others, pumped the bellows. Housing project rooftops, it wrote, "are places of everyday convenience ... a pebbled illusion of space and open ...