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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2009 Stories by Graham Rayman

• Somebody Got Murdered: Murder in Staten Island

  published Nov 16, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Nov. 14, 2009, 5:37 a.m. LOCATION: 23 York Ave., Staten Island. Staten Island isn't known as a murder hotbed, but this weekend, two men were shot and killed in the borough. The... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Cops Seek Public's Help in Stabbing Death

  published Nov 16, 2009

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• Somebody Got Murdered: Severed Torso Found in the Bronx

  published Nov 16, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, 6:40 a.m. LOCATION: Opposite 214 East 168 Street, The Bronx. A building super discovered a male torso wrapped in a plastic bag inside a blue plastic ga... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Man Shot to Death in Brooklyn

  published Nov 16, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 at 7:05 a.m. LOCATION: corner of Sandford Street and Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn. The police say a 27-year-old man was shot to death at the above intersecti... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Shooters Arrested in Precinct After Cops See Them Dumping Their Guns

  published Nov 10, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, 6:14 p.m. LOCATION: Boyland Avenue & Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn. Just a block from a police precinct, a 24-year-old man was shot fatally in the chest at... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Boyfriend Busted In Young Mom's Slaying

  published Nov 03, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Sunday, Nov. 01, 2009 at approximately 7:30 p.m. LOCATION: 690 Allerton Ave., The Bronx. The investigation into the shooting death of a 22-year-old Bronx woman has ended with t... More >>

• NYC Voters Still Pulling Levers On Those Ancient Machines

  published Nov 03, 2009

  Sure, it's 2009, well into the new century, but as us New Yorkers head to the polls today, we're still using the same clunky, decades old lever voting machines we always have. That's because an effo... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Three Shot, One Dead in Brooklyn

  published Nov 03, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Tuesday Nov. 3, 2009, 4:21 a.m. LOCATION: 834 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn. Two men were shot, one fatally, and a woman was wounded outside a restaurant at the above address early... More >>

• Jail Guard Charged In Inmate Assaults

  published Oct 30, 2009

  Prosecutors in the Bronx have indicted a correction officer for beating up two inmates and trying to cover up one of the incidents at jail housing teenage detainees. The case emerged from an broad in... More >>

• The Nation's Newspapers Slammed By Circulation Plunge

  published Oct 27, 2009

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• Somebody Got Murdered: Man Stabbed After Ejecting Three From Restaurant

  published Oct 27, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, 3:34 a.m. LOCATION: In front of 1447 St. Nicholas Avenue, Manhattan. The police say a man, possibly a bouncer, was stabbed fatally after ejecting three... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Student Shot Outside Brooklyn High School

  published Oct 27, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, 3:15 p.m. LOCATION: Rockaway Avenue and Hegeman Avenue, Brooklyn. The police say a high school student was fatally shot at the above intersection Monday ... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Brooklyn Couple Arrested in Beating Death of 4-year-old

  published Oct 25, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Friday,, Oct.23, 2009 at approximately 2:26 p.m. LOCATION: 1004 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. The police have arrested a couple in connection with the death of a child Friday afte... More >>

• Bloomberg Campaign Spends $37,000 an Hour for Three Weeks

  published Oct 23, 2009

  Michael "Money Bags" Bloomberg managed to spend $18.6 million on his campaign in just the past three weeks, according to campaign records released this afternoon. That's more than $37,000 an hour, or ... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Teen Busted in Killing of Bronx Woman, 92

  published Oct 22, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, 6:45 p.m. LOCATION: 731 E. 224 Street, The Bronx. The police have arrested Jamal Blair, 18, of East 233rd Street in the Bronx, in the murder of an elde... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Two Shot, One Dead, in Brooklyn

  published Oct 20, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, 9:12 p.m. LOCATION: inside of 635 Sutter Ave., Brooklyn. Two people were, one of them fatally, in Brooklyn Monday night. A 42-year-old man was shot sever... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Stabbed to Death in Brooklyn

  published Oct 20, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 at approx 11:25 p.m. LOCATION: Inside of 128 Lewis Ave, Brooklyn. A 42-year-old Brooklyn man was stabbed in the chest Monday night, the police say. He wa... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Man Shot in Jamaica, Queens

  published Oct 20, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, 7:15 p.m. LOCATION: 92-07 173rd St., Queens. A 22-year-old man was found shot in the chest outside the above address Monday evening. He was declared dea... More >>

• Old Grey Lady Cuts 100 Newsroom Jobs

  published Oct 19, 2009

  New York Times editor Bill Keller e-mailed in word today to his staffers that the paper is going to cut 100 newsroom jobs by the end of December. Times staffers had already taken 5 percent pay cuts ea... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Blader Slain in Brooklyn Donut Shop Melee

  published Oct 13, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Monday, Oct. 12, 2009, 8:26 p.m. LOCATION: Inside of 188 Parkside Avenue. The police say a teenager was shot and killed, and two men were wounded, inside a donut shop just a bl... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Drunk Driver Kills Brooklyn Man

  published Oct 12, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, Oct. 10,2009, 2:25 a.m. LOCATION: The intersection of 86th Street and 21st Avenue, Brooklyn. A Maryland man has been arrested and charged with drunk driving and mansl... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Cops Say Drunk Mom Flipped Car, Killed girl

  published Oct 12, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009, 12:42 a.m. LOCATION: Henry Hudson Parkway at West 96 Street, Manhattan. A Bronx mom has been charged with manslaughter and drunken driving after she lost... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Psycho Dad Convicted in Daughter's Murder

  published Oct 09, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Feb.16, 2008 LOCATION: 1005 Walton Ave., The Bronx. A Bronx man has pleaded guilty to strangling his 14-year-old daughter with an electrical cord early last year in his apartme... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Slain Outside Bronx Bodega

  published Oct 09, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, 1:08 a.m. LOCATION: In front of 621 East 169 Street, The Bronx. The police say Denis Kuratov, 22, of East 21st Street in Brooklyn, was shot to death outs... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Arrest in DJ's Killing

  published Oct 08, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009, 4:24 a.m. LOCATION: South Street Seaport - Pier #17, Manhattan. It took six weeks, but the police have tracked down the alleged killer of DJ Omar Trent... More >>