Email Author Elizabeth Dwoskin
Awards
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2010 - Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, published December 1, 2009
"Hookers, Slot Machines and Rats"
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2010 - Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, published November 3, 2009
"The Great Walls of Chinatown"
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2010 - Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, published January 7, 2009
"My Brother the Slumlord"
2009 Stories by Elizabeth Dwoskin
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COVER STORY
Hookers, Slot Machines, Rats: Life at the Bronx's 2320 Aqueduct Ave
published December 1, 2009
Everything about the derelict apartment building at 2320 Aqueduct Avenue in the Bronx is a gamble. The place is pretty much a... More >>
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COVER STORY
The Strangest Landlord-Tenant Relationship In Town?
published November 3, 2009
The smell of piss and fish paste are palpable even outside the locked door of 81 Bowery, a four-story tenement just a few buildings up from... More >>
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"Insects and Acrobats Are the Same to Me," An Interview With Choreographer Deborah Colker
published October 20, 2009
Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker will be offering the New York debut of her 2002 work 4 x 4 at City Center this week, from October... More >>
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COVER STORY
A Teen Volunteer Firefighter Is Accused of Sending His Neighbors Up in Smoke
published September 15, 2009
Shortly before dawn on February 19, Edit Vanegas, sleeping with the rest of his family in a bedroom all shared on the second floor of a house... More >>
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COVER STORY
The Mayor of Sneakerdom
published August 25, 2009
Mark Farese is a man with two feet and 1,400 pairs of sneakers. In his New Jersey basement, plastic shoeboxes line the floor in rows and stack... More >>
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COVER STORY
Stop-and-Frisk 101: Arrest Training?
published July 28, 2009
On May 21, 2007, a coordinated scrum of police officers on foot, in patrol cars, and even hovering overhead in a helicopter converged on a... More >>
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An Unlikely Rescuer from the Jaws of Debt
published June 10, 2009
By 9:30 a.m., the 11th-floor hallway of a courthouse in downtown Brooklyn is filled with tight huddles made up of people in debt and the... More >>
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The AIDS-Babies-as-Guinea-Pigs Story Is Finally Over. Right?
published April 1, 2009
On January 27, The New York Times published a short article that was clearly intended to provide the final, definitive word on a... More >>
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COVER STORY
My Brother the Slumlord
published January 7, 2009
In early November, Amy Neustein called the Voice with a message about her brother, an Orthodox Jew who owns a number of buildings in... More >>
