Mike Codella strides down Avenue D aware of every eye on him. Locals stand in tight knots at the entrance to the Lillian Ward projects at the corner of Third St. here in Alphabet City speaking in ...

After working for a couple of years during the 1980s as a plainclothes cop in the drug-ridden Lower East Side, seeing firsthand the daily carnage that heroin ravaged on the inhabitants, Michael ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Walking through the streets of Alphabet City in the 1980s, you were either the victim of a crime, committing a crime or witnessing one. During this time, Staten Islander Michael ...

In Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York’s Lower East Side, published by Thomas Dunne Books, former NYPD In Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New ...

Michael Codella and Bruce Bennett, read by Keith Szarabajka. Blackstone Audio, eight CDs, 9.5 hrs., $70 ISBN 978-1-4417-8741-5 Codella and Bennett provide a rich and compelling criminal history ...

The depraved 1980s Lower East Side Manhattan reconstructed from two policemen's memories The gritty, depraved, violent, drug-crazed world of Lower East Side Manhattan is nowhere more brutally ...

FBI officials are being lauded for netting 127 suspected mafia members yesterday in the largest mob bust in history — but expect few of those to spend any time in jail, according to a retired NYPD cop ...

The crowds gathered last week when Renzo Gracie, the legendary Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight and mixed martial arts champ, arrived at Codella Academy Team Renzo Gracie, a MMA school ...

“So, you studying ballet this week?” Gio asks. “You looked like West Side Story or some shit.” “Tap,” I say. At the Command, I sit across a desk from White Guy and fill out his online booking report.