Category Archives: Crime

WANTED MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

Staten Island was formed by the melt-off of the Ice Age. The fifth borough doesn’t exist to most New Yorkers, but my doctor lived next to the Tibetan Museum on Lighthouse Hill. Nick and I attended the same college and every year he invited me out to his house for my annual medical examination. Last […]

Wanted In Thirty-eight States

Coming back from midtown Subway Sunday slow A Train to Brooklyn A younger older man He asks, “Are you famous?” Like Ulysees to the cyclops I say, “I am no one.” He begs to differ. “You are someone. My name is Prince. From East New York. I done twenty-five. For five murders. The po-lice shot […]

April 12, 1981 – Booking after the Jefferson Raid – Journal Entry

Manhattan’s Central Booking Early Sunday morning Our crew of ten from the Jefferson Our crime Serving alcohol after 4am. Photos by an old black turnkey. Empty our pockets. Keys, wallets et al. COs pushing us through a metal detector. Our after-hour crew shoved in a holding cell The clank of steel doors Everyone else a […]

Orange Man Cometh to New York

While several presidents have been executed by the shadow powers; Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding, and JFK, none of been arrested for criminal behavior until today when Donald Trump will be arraigned in New York City for having his Michael Cohen pay $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, an adult-entertainment actress, to quash her outing their 2006 one-night […]

IF ONLY FOR TONIGHT

1990 Boston during the race for mayor with the do-gooding incumbent was hard pressed by his challenger over tales of his regime’s unbridled corruption and the voters, who knew too well corrupt politicians, were rooting for the newcomer’s victory, so he could send the current Mayor to Walpole State Prison. Bostonians loved the fall of […]