Allida is tongue-tied with An Impossible Thing to Say by Arya Shahi, in which an Iranian American teen in Arizonafalls in love with the new girl at school, Shakespeare, and rap music while . Who Does the Story of The Lost King Really Belong To? The police would call me up and warn me about him, tell me I had to get away from him or he'd kill me. [9]. Certain cafs are recognised as virtually clubs for different grades of moon-worshippers. The authors take us through the rise of the Sydney underworld and the city's Kings Cross red-light district during the 1960s and 1970s. His factory worker father ran the workplace's SP book. Nick Hordern is a journalist and author. On 4 July 1975 Nielsen disappeared, after keeping an appointment at the Carousel Club to discuss advertising in her newspaper. The Clune Gallery was later transformed into an artists' collective reminiscent of the 1920s scene, when Martin Sharp opened the Yellow House in 1970. It contains significant nineteenth-century buildings as well as some of Sydney's earliest apartment buildings in the Art Deco style. Yusuf Nozlioglu was murdered at his Rhodes apartment complex. Development across Kings Cross was not consistent, but composed of a mix of single-storey cottages and two- to three-storey terraces. Pop artist and cartoonist who has contributed to Australian and international pop culture since 1960. in J Roe (ed), Twentieth Century Sydney: Studies in Urban & Social History, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1980, p 77, [13] Sydney Morning Herald, 2 October 1930, p 10, [14] Sydney Morning Herald, 9 September 1939, p 11, [15] HC Brewster, Kings Cross Calling, Liberty Press, Sydney, 1954, p 100, [16] Welcome: the Official Bulletin of the All Nations Club, [17] Memories of Kings Cross 19361946, Kings Cross Community Aid and Information Service, 1981, p 97, [18] Memories of Kings Cross 19361946, Kings Cross Community Aid and Information Service, 1981, p 95, [19] Scott Carlin, 'Kings Cross; Bohemian life in Sydney', Historic Houses Trust website, http://www.hht.net.au/discover/highlights/insites/kings_cross_bohemian_life_in_sydney, viewed 12 December 2012, [20] Chris Cunneen, 'Magnus, Walter (19031954), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 15, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, available online at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/magnus-walter-11035, [22] Sydney Morning Herald, 9 September 1939, p 11, [23] Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 1935, p 4, [24] Sydney Morning Herald, 7 March 1935, p 6, [25] Sydney Morning Herald, 1 January 1940, p 7; P Spearritt, Sydney's Century: A History, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1999, p 78, [26] HC Brewster, Kings Cross Calling, Liberty Press, Sydney, 1954, p 87, [27] D McNab, The Usual Suspect: The Life of Abe Saffron, Macmillan, Sydney, 2005, p 63, [28] JS Clark, Art Deco Cinemas Series 1: The Minerva, Australian Theatre Historical Society, Sydney, 1993, pp 522, [29] David Keenan, The Watson Bay Line of the Sydney Tramway System Cable & Electric 18941960, Transit Press, Sydney, 1990, p 5, [30] David Keenan, The Watson Bay Line of the Sydney Tramway System Cable & Electric 18941960, Transit Press, Sydney, 1990, p 28, [31] G Travers, From City to Suburba fifty year journey: The story of NSW Government Buses, Sydney Tramway Museum, Sydney, 1982, p 1, [32] David Keenan, The Watson Bay Line of the Sydney Tramway System Cable & Electric 18941960, Transit Press, Sydney, 1990, p 78, [33] The Story of the Eastern Suburbs Railway, Public Transport Commission of NSW, Sydney, 1979, [34] Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May 1939, p 10; 12 February 1941, p 13, [35] Main Roads: Journal of the Department of Main Roads, NSW, September 1972, p 20, [36] Main Roads: Journal of the Department of Main Roads, NSW, December 1975, p 34, [37] J Holledge, Inside Kings Cross, Horwitz Publications, Sydney, 1963, p 8, [38] R Ellis and W Stacey, Kings Cross Sydney, Thomas Nelson, Sydney, 1971, p 64, [39] R Morris, 'Nielsen, Juanita Joan (19371975)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 15, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, p 47980, available online at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/nielsen-juanita-joan-11241/text20047, viewed 12 December 2011, [40] R Ellis and W Stacey, Kings Cross Sydney, Thomas Nelson, Sydney, 1971, p 6, Mark Dunn is a professional historian working in Sydney. Pressure to close tramlines across the network had been building since the early 1950s and in January 1960 the closure of the line through the Cross was announced. All too often we make decisions for the people we love based on what we think they want or expect. Paul Steven Haigh, convicted of the murders of six people in the late 1970s and another in 1991; currently serving six life sentences without the possibility of parole ", In the end, the underworld killed Regan. The Paradise was planned as a venue for movies, with a stage large enough for opera, ballet and musical productions, with a roof garden and cabaret shows; however it was never built. Two further streets, to be named Upper William Street North (Bayswater Road) and Upper William Street South (Kings Cross Road) were put in place to carry traffic over the ridge while skirting the boundaries of the private estates. "Not much happened unless it went through Fred," he recalls. By 1972, 280,000 US servicemen had visited Sydney on leave, and as had occurred during World War II, a majority were drawn to the Kings Cross bars and clubs. Organised crime in Sydney may seem like a rare occurrence, but behind the city's peaceful exterior is a thriving criminal underworld! Late on the 22 May at the busy Ziegfeld Club on King Street, Sydney, Hayes shot Lee in front of friends and fellow underworld figures, in a revenge attack. Artists such as Brett Whiteley, Bruce Goold and Peter Kingston turned the building into an art work, while visiting bands and celebrities made it a regular fixture of the Sydney scene. David John Birnie and Catherine Margaret Birnie were an Australian husband and wife pair of serial killers from Perth, Australia. Home built on land granted to Alexander Baxter on Woolloomooloo Hill. During the 1920s, the principal area for flat development in Sydney was within the City of Sydney, with Kings Cross the most developed. Sydney Noir: The Golden Years, by Michael Duffy and Nick Hordern.NewSouth Publishing. Theatre entrepreneur who often faced protests for replacing Australian performers with overseas artists. Sculptor who briefly enlivened Sydney's artistic scene but achieved his greatest recognition in Europe. Smith was mentored by Sydney hard-man . The real and imagined goings on at the Cross criminal, artistic, political or culinary attracted suburbanites and interstate tourists for a look at least, as well as those wanting to escape to what they perceived to be the more liberal lifestyle on offer. While Sydney crime figures have been dropping steadily for the past couple of years, there's data (like the Campbelltown crime rate) that tell of a much larger problem facing New South Wales. They were then arrested and the trio will be sentenced on November 23. The new road junction, prepared against the advice of Mitchell to serve the interests of property owners, proved to be a bane to Sydney commuters for the next 140 years, until the opening of the Kings Cross tunnel in December 1975. This took the street up the steepest, but shortest, path to intersect with Victoria Street and Darlinghurst Road at the top of the ridge. Bonnette now says he had an SP business in Bayswater Road, Kings Cross, for a couple of years in the 1970s. Given the general crime statistic that three in four criminals are men, the common assumption in both popular interest and scholarly work has been to focus on male criminality. Annual parade and festival celebrating gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture. Restaurant which helped established the cosmopolitan reputation of Kings Cross. The area's reputation struggled to recover and was further tarnished with a series of Royal Commissions and enquiries into police corruption and links to organised crime through the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in the Wood Royal Commission in 199497. Soldier and surveyor who retained the position of deputy surveyor general for more than 20 years despite the animosity of his superior Thomas Mitchell. Their proximity to the city, and the number of rooms that could be let as bedrooms, made them ideal for use as boarding or lodging houses for the ever-increasing city population. Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, the second series of the Nine Network crime drama series Underbelly, originally aired from 9 February 2009 to 4 May 2009.It is a thirteen-part series loosely based on real events that stemmed from the marijuana trade centred on the New South Wales town of Griffith.The timeline of the series is the years between 1976 and 1987. Bonnette was born in Melbourne on June 8, 1935. Not only are they notorious female underworld figures, but also they are unique in Australian history for being women running criminal syndicates. By 1930 the New South Wales Jewish War Memorial Hall and the Swedish Club were both operating in Darlinghurst Road, with the Greek Consul-General in Elizabeth Bay Road. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 16th July 1832'), Woolloomooloo, Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay 1832, Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Part of a cadastral map of Sydney by Woolloomooloo Bay, showing Victoria and McLeay Streets c1841, Plan shewing the situation of the allotments for sale at Darlinghurst Elizabeth Bay: the property of Alexr Mcleay Esqre 1840s, Darlinghurst Road, top of William Street, Kings Cross 1871, Fruit stall in Springfield Avenue 26 May 1933, Kings Cross Theatre, intersection of Victoria Street and Darlinghurst Road 1920s, Thelma Crawley on delivering Meals on Wheels to Rosaleen Norton, the 'Witch of Kings Cross' 2007, Ted Noffs with group of people at Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross, 1966, Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre, Roosevelt nightclub, Kings Cross September 1944, William Street, Kings Cross at night 1970, 'Boy! [8]. The year-round entertainment was supplemented from the later 1930s by huge celebrations to herald the New Year. [12] A large proportion of these developments were six to eight stories high, using the 'new' technology of 'lifts', and they resulted in the appearance of a striking new skyline along the ridge above Darlinghurst and Woolloomooloo. Portrayals of Marsyas shifted from justly punished . Surely you can get money without that.". The international scene was part of the wider bohemian feel that pervaded the Cross. She is a Lecturer in History at Edith Cowan University and specialises in modern American and Australian history and Crime history. Home U.K. But I was making too much money. Cafe proprietor and former American naval officer who introduced American style cafe fare to Sydney. Political club formed as an electoral branch of the Liberal Association of New South Wales to promote the cause of liberalism. [30] The same year Sydney's first government-operated steam bus route was trialled from Potts Point to Darlinghurst, to serve as a feeder service for the tram route, although this was abandoned by mid-1906. It's not like it used to be, they'll say. From Pride and Prejudice to Persuasion: Can Jane Austen Survive the Millennium? [40]. [22]. This is the one constant of the Cross; people always think it was better when they were there. He denies involvement with drugs, and has never had any drug-related convictions, but whatever he was into, there's no doubt he excelled at making a lot of money while keeping a low profile. In revealing her story to Abby, Linney was finally able to release the pain she had carried for so long. Bonnette has spent a lot of his retirement going to shows and engaging in Western Riding, in which a rider dressed in cowboy gear has to put a horse through certain manoeuvres. Karl Bonnette features in the exhibition Sin City: crime and corruption in 20th-century Sydney, at the Justice & Police Museum from May 1. Festival of art, music and performance held in Sydney in January. Though now bisected by freeways and rail it is slowly reclaiming its heritage and character with extensive residential development and sympathetic landscaping. The Roosevelt, later managed by Abe Saffron, lasted until the end of six o'clock closing in 1955, after which it was leased to radio station 2KY for conversion to radio studios. ", When Anderson died in 1985, McPherson became the best-known Sydney criminal but he never attained the same level of power as Anderson. He was the first Indigenous person to work as a director in the mainstream Australian theatre industry and was Australia's first Indigenous feature film director. It's not, for Kings Cross exists in a permanent state of mutation, and herein lies its very existence its adaptability to change, its readiness to accept and absorb a new generation with new ideas yet still retain its unique sangfroid. Of the 17 villa estates laid out by Darling on the ridge line, six fell within the area now referred to as Kings Cross: James Dowling's Brougham Lodge, Alexander Baxter's Springfield Lodge, Augustus Perry's Buona Vista, Thomas Macquoid's Goderich Lodge, Thomas Barker's Roslyn Hall estate with its windmills, and Edward Hallen's nine-acre (3.6-hectare) grant on which he did not build. Fish and oyster cafe run by brothers John and Nick Psaltis in Darlinghurst Road for many years until they sold the business and premises in 1928. Schneider was seen as a broker, or a go-betwee From 2010 to mid-2012 he was Dictionary of Sydney writer-in-residence sponsored by the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts. Because back then the police were out there very diligently doing their job, whether it was to do that [rubs fingers together] or to lock the bad guys up. In 1963 Frankie Davidson asked 'Have you ever been to see Kings Cross? Funeral director who prospered through a combination of service and respectability using modern equipment and tasteful parlours. 05:31 GMT 12 Nov 2022 Businessmen and women could pick up baked rabbits, frankfurts, chicken and ham rissoles, Cornish pasties, and chicken pies or steaks from Dunbars, Booths or Wolfe's. But what about the victims whose voices have been lost? Movies like Two Hands (1999) and Dirty Deeds (2002) looked at the local underworld, as did the television series Underbelly 3: The Golden Mile. Nightclub owner and property developer reputed to be a major figure in Australia's organized crime in the latter half of the twentieth century. How standover tactics brought a Sydney underworld figure and carpet seller together. Despite protests, the last tram ran through Kings Cross in the early morning of Sunday 10 July 1960. Sydney has been rocked by another brutal gangland execution with a top underworld figure gunned down by "meticulous" hitmen on a suburban street in the city's south . Actor who spent his early career in Sydney before becoming an international film star. Leigh is currently researching the life of notorious Sydney underworld figure, Kate Leigh. There is incredible strength in Linneys story, too. In 1963, Kenneth Slessor noted that people who 'go to the Cross' or 'live at the Cross' could mean anywhere from Taylor Square to Wylde Street, but this didn't matter as they were expressing a state of mind. Rock band which found Australian success between 1964 and 1967. The Mythology of Jane Boleyn: Was Jane Rewarded by Thomas Cromwell? 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Global film and theatrical production and distribution company. Estate of convict and landowner Thomas West surrounded by Darlinghurst, Paddington and Rushcutters Bay. Both incidents included shots fired and some of Sydney's most notorious underworld figures, such as Phil 'the Jew' Jeffs, and the henchmen of Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh were involved. One of Sydney's most notorious gangsters of the 1970s and 1980s is a haunted man today, still fearing his car may be blown up, and keeps himself in fighting shape just in case. West named his land, measuring approximately 40 acres (16.2 hectares), Barcom Glen and used his mill to supply flour to the colonial bakers and community. Once lined by exclusive mansions from the 1830s, the road has seen a transformation from the Bohemian atmosphere of the 1930s and 40s where the cafes and nightclubs attracted writers and artists, to the seedier side of bars and strip clubs which proliferated during wartime to entertain servicemen from nearby Garden Island. Robin Eakin (Dalton) captured the fading bohemia of the 1930s and 1940s in her memoir Aunts up the Cross (1965), while Dymphna Cusack and Florence James evoked the excitement and danger of the wartime Cross in Come in Spinner (1951). For generations, northern Ireland has been no stranger to armed militant groups willing to dispense violence. Soldier, farmer and politician who became Premier in 1975. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, it is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. A 'junior' nightclub called the Birdcage, run by radio compere Peter Bergin was openbrieflyin the venue in 1963 after the theatre closed, and soon replaced byJohn Harrigan's Surf City, that occupied the building from 1963 until 1966 when the building was demolished, to bereplaced by the Crest Hotel. By the 1820s, West's mill had been joined by a number of windmills, built on the ridge line that extended from the South Head Road (now Oxford Street) north towards the harbour. It's good to feel safe again!' The local vice economy got a major injection (corrupt politicians and cops asideof which Sydney had plenty of both) with the arrival of American GIs on R&R from Vietnam looking for drink, drugs and girls. The loophole initially allowed Devine and Leigh to set up a number of brothels and avoid lengthy sentences. Europeans first moved into the outskirts of the future Kings Cross from 1810, when Thomas West was granted land to build a water mill. The Mythology of Jane Boleyn: Did Jane Testify Against Her Husband? Social club founded to make connections between 'New Australians' who had arrived in Sydney after World War II and other Sydneysiders. Through the nineteenth century, it prospered in the cities and port towns and within and around the main gold mining areas. Rock band that enjoyed huge success in the 1960s and 1970s. With this in mind, Surveyor-General Sir Thomas Mitchell, who owned one of the Darlinghurst villas, proposed a street to be named after William IV. The so-called good Australian woman was expected to thrive in her domestic life as a wife and mother. Regan was the leader of the Sydney underworld during the 1960s and 1970s, and was known as "The Magician", as he could make his enemies disappear without a trace. Tilly Devine, born Matilda Mary Twiss in London, arrived in Sydney as a war bride in 1920 and became a formidable figure in the city's underworld, particularly in Palmer Street, Darlinghurst. . Once a desirable bayside address east of central Sydney, the area grew more congested and grimy as the wharves expanded and the boarding houses and pubs gave refuge to larrikin gangs and petty criminals. One of many oyster bars in the area which benefited from proximity to the fish markets at Woolloomooloo Bay. Smith survived a hit and run in 1986 where he suffered . While Mitchell was out of Sydney on a surveying expedition, Macleay ordered the new street to be put through in a direct line heading east from Park Street. Key female writers and historians such as Lucy Frost and Kay Daniels have done much to include female voices and experiences in what we know of convict history. The most prominent mills were those belonging to Thomas Barker and the one built adjacent to Thomas Mitchell's property, Craigend. Comic novel by John O'Grady under the pseudonym Nino Culotta written in 1957. Smith was a gangland figure, murderer, rapist, armed robber and a big time heroin dealer who benefitted from police corruption. Through the 1970s the building was used for movies as well as live shows before closing in 1979, and then re-opening as a food market. Channel 5s Anne Boleyn Grumble all you like, this is how its going to be, Four Spectacular Music-Themed Movies To Check Out, His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 7 sahttr, His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 6 Malice, Arya Stark and Luke Skywalker, Meet Bruce Lee, From Wicked Wife to Insane Traitor: The Continued Slander of Jane Boleyn, From The Ashes Poetry for Bushfire Relief: Call for Submissions, His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 8 Season Finale Betrayal. Despite the subdivisions, much of the land remained open and undeveloped through the 1850s, and all of the original villas were still standing, as were at least three windmills. Home built on land granted to Samuel Augustus Perry on Woolloomooloo Hill. Michael Odisho, DLASTHR and BFL underworld Sydney gangster [citation needed] Nikolai Radev (1959-2003) killed in gang war . . Kings Cross was a place filled with, bottle-ohs, limousines, paupers' funerals, police patrols, millionaires, American actresses, mysterious screams, and people who don't pay their taxi-fares. First drug referral centre established in Australia in 1967 by Ted Noffs at the Wayside Chapel. Running gang wars, assaults and shootings became a scourge of the area in the 1920s and 1930s. Writers such as Slessor wrote eloquently and poetically about their life in and around the Cross, evoking its bohemian nature as well as the edgier side that was emerging. The California Caf, opened in 1929 by American Dick McGowan, was a gathering place with impromptu recitals and performances held inside its painting-lined walls, while the Caf Eldorado in Darlinghurst Road and the Darlinghurst Liberal Club hosted political meetings and rallies. The Hamburger served meals to late night revellers in William Street, while the Hasty Tasty introduced an Americanised version of the fast food caf from 1940, serving burgers, grills and coffees just in time for the influx of United States servicemen during the war. Bonnette was described by the royal commission as probably a financial backer of a large drug importation. Why is it that women engage in crime? Convict who became a successful farmer, mill-owner, and quarryman on his grant near Darlinghurst, and a landowner at The Oaks and Picton near Sydney. "I rang George Freeman to lay off some of that and he started to laugh. William Street was constructed in the early 1830s to allow ease of access to the newly erected mansions along the ridge line of Woolloomooloo Hill, recently renamed Darlinghurst by Governor Darling. In 1950 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took over the Minerva and converted it to a cinema (although it had played a week of movies in 1939). By the late nineteenth century, with the growth of urban centres like Sydney and Melbourne, the public nature of prostitution featured in political and media discussions. No products in the cart. Betrayed by a corrupt police officer, Lyndsey escapes into the shadows of underworld Sydney to protect the man she loves. Born Mark Elliot Zuckerberg May 14, 1984 (age 38) White Plains, New York, U.S. Education: Harvard University (dropped out) Occupations: Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist. The Kings Cross Theatre was a hub for a number of venues, with billiard rooms, oyster saloons, and cafs all trading within a few doors of it. Mark Zuckerberg - Zuckerberg in April 2019. Named for the intersection of Darlinghurst Road, William and Victoria Streets and once called Queens Cross, the area is now a neon lit mecca for tourists and Sydneysiders. However, since the 1970s and particularly in the last decade or so, the topic of women and crime has come to dominate historical and criminological studies. . The former Darlinghurst Gaol is now the National Art School. For many people, the Cross refers to the larger zone from the top of William Street, along Darlinghurst Road to Macleay Street, down Bayswater Road to Elizabeth Bay Road and north along Victoria Street into the edges of Potts Point. Another Sydney crime figure, Antonia Bagnato, is now standing trial for Schneider's death in Thailand. New streets were laid out to access the growing number of allotments for sale, including Victoria Street which was created in 1837. 1 views . ", I got to meet all the so-called colourful characters Bonnette with his horse Diamond Lil and his 1970s Double Bay chair. Mr Djemal argued his client Theobald had little knowledge about the shipment. In February 1833 a fire in the bush on Woolloomooloo Hill burnt for three nights, no doubt causing some concern among the newly installed residents. [11]. [media]The wealthy colonial merchants, officials and gentlemen who resided in the gleaming white mansions that dotted the ridgeline of Darlinghurst had to drive their carriages via South Head Road (later Oxford Street) to Darlinghurst Road to access their businesses in town. And they're right of course. Although some delays were encountered when old tram tracks were uncovered in William Street, the new tunnel was officially opened by the Premier, TL (Tom) Lewis, on 15 December 1975. Albert Einstein. Memorial hall constructed to commemorate the 800 Jewish soldiers who enlisted in World War I from New South Wales and the 100 who were killed. A lifetime away and nearing death, Lyndsey reveals her story to Abigail Hollingsworth, a nurse at Kirkland Home for the Elderly. ", The one who impressed him most was Fred "Paddles" Anderson. Widow of murdered Sydney underworld figure confronts killer The widow of Sydney gangster John Macris has confronted her husband's alleged killer on the first day of the murder trial in Athens . With the [media]onset of an economic depression in the early 1840s, sale notices for new allotments being made out of other villa estates soon began appearing with regularity in the local newspapers. In this sense, local councils, the police, and state governments wanted to enforce respectability on the streets. Nightclub on William St Kings Cross during the 1960s and 1970s. the 76-year-old was a prominent figure in the Sydney underworld during the police corruption in New South Wales in the . Alongside the red light scene, Kings Cross also evolved as one of Sydney's main live music destinations. Rock band originally formed in Adelaide in 1973 and renamed 1974, which achieved success in Australia and New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s. He said, 'Are you out of your mind? Darlinghurst Road between Victoria Street and Macleay Street was viewed by some as Sydney's answer to the West End of London, Charlottenburg of pre-war Berlin, or even the Montparnasse caf district of Paris. It was later published and edited byJuanita Neilsen. These days that's stopped but he still loves horses. Women were introduced into the police force in Australia in an effort to better deal with what were termed wayward girls and women in the early twentieth century. In the early 1980s, Kennedy-Miller productions took over the building, using it as offices and for film and television production. Small, densely populated inner-eastern suburb, joined to Garden Island in 1942. The comments below have not been moderated, By The Sydney gangland war (or the Gang wars) were a series of murders and killings of several known criminal figures and their associates that took place in Sydney, Australia, during the 1980s. After dark the district becomes gay and slightly sinister. [3] Queens Cross lasted just eight years. The regulation and containment of prostitution played right into the hands of women like Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh. She tried to protect the man she loved and carried the secret of what happened to her for most of her life. A resident of Kings Cross since the 1950s, he was he was responsible for the bikies Toy Ride each Christmas to distribute toys for needy children and known to many as the Kings Cross Santa. 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