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Riding High by Edward Conlon T 6 6 he other day Billy Byrnes whipped around and bit me in the ass," Chris White announces. "Drew blood and everything." Byrnes and White are colleagues at the New...

The Uses of Malice (April 1995)

Edward Conlon The Uses of Malice Jews in the slave trade, and other myths. D uring my junior year of college, I spent spring break with my roommate at his home in Los Angeles. The visit, my first...

The Driving School Spectator / Ghose Slow (February 1995)

Ghose Slow by Edward Conlon T he Grand Concourse in the Bronx is broad and tree-lined, eight stately lanes bordered by art deco and art modern apartment houses. Modeled after Park Avenue, which...

The Gerry Adams Spectator/Belfast Americans (December 1994)

Belfast Americans by Edward Conlon E ven when it was in Gaelic, much of what Gerry Adams told the crowd was familiar: "We threaten the Unionists with nothing but democracy," and "Irish America is...

The Pols, the Police, and the Gerry Curls (November 1994)

Edward Conlon The Pols, the Police, and the Gerry Curls Inside one of New York's most notorious Dominican drug gangs. W ashington Heights has a fair claim to being the largest retail drug market...

The Pet Shop Spectator / Hey There, Alligator (October 1994)

Hey There, Alligator Victor Bailly, a reticent Puerto Rican, is a Humane Law Enforcement Officer of the ASPCA, and as such serves as an interlocutor between City Hall and the Animal Kingdom. While...

The New York Spectator / No More Secrets (July 1994)

No More Secrets by Edward Conlon T he Mayor's Office for Midtown Enforcement is not opposed to fun, in general or in principle, though not everyone sees it this way. Opponents are apt to call it a...

The Washington Heights Spectator / Miracle on 204th Street (November 1993)

THE WASHINGTON HEIGHTS SPECTATOR Miracle on 204th Street by Edward Conlon F or weeks after Margarita Duarte saw the image of Jesus Christ on the bathroom window of Rosa Diez's fifth-floor...

The Nation's Pulse / Infernal Machines (June 1993)

L ike most New Yorkers, James J. Falihee watched the reports of the explosion at the World Trade Center with mixed feelings of pity, anxiety, and dismay, but when Channel 2 News announced that it...

The Nation's Pulse/Fight to the Fanoosh (February 1993)

Editors' note: Last. month, Robert J. Powers, Col., USAF (Ret.), a Bronx native now resident in Louisiana, wrote our crime correspondent Edward Conlon, also a native of the Bronx, to describe a trip...

Mob Stories (November 1992)

Edward Conlon Mob Stories Our crime correspondent gives an aficionado's tour of the American mafia. Wen Meyer Lan- sky made his memorable claim some thirty years ago that organized crime was...

Down in the Hole (May 1992)

Edward Conlon Down in the Hole Six weeks with the police in New York's subway tunnels. Come back to the subways! But not to live! Only to go from one place to another! There's not much graffiti,...

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