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By Matt Chaban 5/11/11 2:14pm

Park Dope: Riding the H-Train Through BroBo Paradise

It was a 70-degree day in mid-March of 2010 when Edwin Perez rode his cherry red Can-Am Spyder from a self-storage locker in Windsor Terrace up to the tree-lined brownstone streets of Park Slope, the place he conducted business, the place he referred to as “the office.” At 2:35, the well-built 32-year-old turned the Spyder, Read More

By Michael Codella and Bruce Bennett 11/12/10 6:13pm

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Exclusive Excerpt: Alphaville, the Blistering New Memoir by Ex-NYPD Detective Michael Codella

In Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York’s Lower East Side, published by Thomas Dunne Books, former NYPD detective Michael “Rambo” Codella and cowriter Bruce Bennet conjure up a visceral, hellish vision of Gotham in the late 80s, when heroin flooded the Lower East Side. In this exclusive excerpt, Codella collars Read More

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Park Dope: Riding the H-Train Through BroBo Paradise

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