Email Author Graham Rayman

Awards

• 2011 - Investigative Reporters and Editors

  "The NYPD Tapes"

• 2011 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award

  "The NYPD Tapes"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "The NYPD Tapes"

• 2009 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award

  Teen Murders at Rikers Island series

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2007 Stories by Graham Rayman

• Pols Feasting on Pork

  published December 18, 2007

  What do a decrepit Long Island fort and the American Museum of Natural History have in common with the Iraq War? Well, not much, but they both... More >>

• Do NOT Go Directly to Jail

  published December 18, 2007

  On a recent gloomy Wednesday morning, under a light drizzle, 19-year-old Tamika Gordon waited at Queens Plaza for a bus to take her to see her... More >>

• Columbia Expansion Gets Uglier

  published November 27, 2007

  The sweaty scrum over Columbia University's plan to expand into West Harlem got a little rougher last week, when three board members of the local... More >>

• Elevator Diplomacy

  published November 20, 2007

  The Glasers—a family of Bronx elevator-equipment moguls—haven't been too big on giving money to political campaigns. In fact, city... More >>

• Crisis-Mode Rudy

  published November 6, 2007

  With this 9/11 thing continuing to work for former mayor Rudy Giuliani, we can't help wondering how President Giuliani might handle a crisis... More >>

• Bus Kill

  published November 6, 2007

  On September 6 of last year, a speeding bus rolling toward Brooklyn on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge slammed into a tractor trailer, sending... More >>

• CIA Paranoia and the Lady from Vermont

  published October 16, 2007

  On October 9, Charlotte Dennett, a prim Vermont woman uneasily holding her handbag, stood up in federal court in Manhattan to try yet again to... More >>

• Jail Watchdog Caught Snoozing

  published October 2, 2007

  Most of the time, no one who hangs around City Hall cares a penny about the Board of Correction, the supposedly independent watchdog overseeing... More >>

• Rikers Revenge

  published September 18, 2007

  In July, the Voice reported on violence by Rikers Island inmate... More >>

• Playing the Ponies

  published September 11, 2007

  From corporate watchdog Neil Getnick's perspective, it makes perfect sense that the New York Racing Association has hired him—at $125,000 a... More >>

• Clearing the Air

  published August 28, 2007

  To understand how deeply New Yorkers hold the conviction that 9/11 environmental fallout is killing people, you need only to have attended the... More >>

• Bloomberg Charges the Homeless Rent

  published August 21, 2007

  Dusting off an idea dating back to the Giuliani era, the Bloomberg administration has quietly started charging rent to homeless people who stay... More >>

• His Name Is Mud

  published July 31, 2007

  Here are a few items that Con Edison boss Kevin Burke probably won't include on his curriculum vitae: The 11.6 percent electricity rate... More >>

• Jail Guard Blues

  published July 17, 2007

  Reacting to a recent Voice cover story about violence in Rikers Island jails ("What the Jail Guard Saw," July 11), correction officers'... More >>

• What the Jail Guard Saw

  published July 3, 2007

  When his cell door abruptly opened just before 11 p.m. on April 16, Camillo Douglas knew he was in trouble. Moments later, five Bloods gang... More >>

• Mopping Up

  published May 29, 2007

  If you ask some of the members of his military unit, Sgt. James McNaughton, the only New York City police officer killed in Iraq, should never... More >>

• Deadly Restraint

  published May 22, 2007

  On May 11, Oswald Livermore, a 51-year-old postal worker facing a misdemeanor charge, died in a Manhattan jail shortly after correction officers... More >>