Andrew Goldstein convicted of second-degree murder of Kendra Webdale (PHOTOS). A schizophrenic man pleaded guilty to manslaughter yesterday, admitting for the first time that he knew what he was doing when he pushed a promising young writer to her death in front of a subway train almost eight years ago.

The man, Andrew Goldstein, acknowledged that he knew it was wrong to shove the woman, Kendra Webdale, 32, into the path of an N train at the 23rd Street station in January 1999.

The death of Ms. Webdale, a journalist and photographer who had moved to the city from Buffalo, unnerved New Yorkers who had come to think of their city as the safest it had been in years.

The public outcry over her death led to a state law, known as Kendra’s Law, that gives families the right to demand court-ordered outpatient psychiatric treatment for their relatives. Go here for more and the photos