Car Service
Jennifer Gonnerman profiles teenage Brooklyn livery cab dispatcher Milton "Manny" Mendoza in ”The Town Car 500” in New York Magazine.
View ArticleHarsh drug laws in New York State to be reformed
For 35 years judges in New York State have had to follow strict sentencing laws for drug offenders. Critics say the Rockefeller Drug Laws, named for the former governor, mete out long prison sentences...
View ArticleTaxi Dollars and Sense
New York Magazine contributor Jennifer Gonnerman talks about spending a "shift in the life" of a NYC yellow cab driver-- and Lakshman "Lucky" Abeysekara, NYC taxi driver, shares his story and talks...
View ArticleHeld for Three Years on Riker's Island Without a Trial
Jennifer Gonnerman, a contributor to The New Yorker, investigates the case of Kalief Browder, who spent three years in Rikers Island’s Robert N. Davoren Center—more than a year and a half of that time...
View ArticleOne Year After Kalief Browder's Suicide, Reexamining Prison Reform
It's been a year since Kalief Browder, a twenty-two year old man from the Bronx, committed suicide. He'd been released from Rikers Island 2 years prior, where he'd spent 3 years until charges were...
View ArticleMad at the Media (hour 1); Youth Vision and Values (hour 2)
Host Alex S. Jones discusses "Why the Public Hates the Media" with Stephen Talbot, producer of the Frontline documentary "Why Does America Hate the Press?", David Remnick of The New Yorker, and Paul...
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