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A Prison Guard’s Nightmare

Written by C.J. Sullivan on January 25, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

"That’s what I got to show for working eight years as a prison guard. Nightmares. By the time I left that job the inmates hated me. They’d tell me what they were going to do to me if they ever got their hands on me during a riot. I laughed and acted like it was
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Jimmy Breslin Loses a Friend Over Diallo

Written by C.J. Sullivan on January 11, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

"That’s it, we’re done," Jimmy Breslin’s telling me. "Me and Roberts are through. Finished. No more. That motion being granted was a slap in the face to New Yorkers. It was a fix all the way around." The Roberts whom Breslin’s talking about is Burton Roberts, attorney for Officer Sean Carroll, one of the four
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When Crime Changed

Written by C.J. Sullivan on January 4, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The drop in crime during the 1990s was New York City’s biggest story, but no observer in the media saw it coming. By the time the press caught on, it was already a done deal. It might have been a case of living in the forest and not being able to see the trees. Or
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The Big Clock on Fordham Rd.

Written by C.J. Sullivan on January 2, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The clock was once the pride of the Fordham Rd. area. Before 1988 the Bronx Tower was called the Dollar Savings Bank building, and the clock and the bank seemed inextricably linked. To the south side of the tower, attached to it, is an elegant three-story marble building, built in 1933. It was here that
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Fighting Rocky’s Laws

Written by C.J. Sullivan on December 21, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Here’s Terence Murphy, for example, with his family before some Irish celebration, maybe a St. Patrick’s Day parade. Everyone’s all smiles, full of good will. One of the Murphy men wears a piper’s kilt and holds a bagpipe like he’s going to bust into a rendition of "Danny Boy." At some point after this picture
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Ees Sleepy Here, SeÃ±or

Written by C.J. Sullivan on December 14, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

My father told me his version of the story as we drove up from the Bronx. It was more suspenseful than the story told in Tim Burton’s current revisionist slasher flick, and creepier than the original Washington Irving tale. It went like this: Ichabod Crane was an evil schoolteacher who mooched off all of Sleepy
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Mugged In Public

Written by C.J. Sullivan on November 30, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Mike’s parents were apprehensive about Mike’s attending Hunter because of the hour-plus commute from their home. But the Manhattan school has a good reputation, so they figured why not. Mike leaves home at 6:45 a.m. and takes a bus and then a train to get to the school’s Upper East Side campus. And no matter
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When Juries Okay Crimes Against Cops

Written by C.J. Sullivan on November 16, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The other cops returned fire, but the shooter escaped. Galvin was rushed to Lincoln Hospital. His injuries were critical, but he’d survive. Meanwhile, the apartment’s occupant, and the owner of the weapons, was arrested. Khabir Ahmad, a 37-year-old transit worker, was nabbed on weapons charges, but was never charged with the shooting. He was later
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The Klueless Klan

Written by C.J. Sullivan on November 2, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Up onstage an angry woman threw down the hammer. "We are a community of warriors!" she declared. "Harlem is waiting for you, KKK! Come uptown and see what happens! The KKK will not show their dirty faces today!" She was wrong with that last comment. The KKK has never rallied in New York, and these
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No Hipsters Need Apply In This Hood

Written by C.J. Sullivan on October 26, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

And that may have been one of the reasons why Ridgewood never made it onto the new scene radar. Where I lived, the southwest part by Cypress Ave. and Himrod St., the main presence was Italian, Puerto Rican and Guyanese. And it still is. The toughest group of that quarter were the Italians and I
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