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

• Donny Moss Takes Aim at Christine Quinn in Short Film

  published Jun 08, 2009

  Whoa! Documentary film maker and animal rights advocate Donny Moss really lets City Council Speaker Christine Quinn have it in a short video he has posted on YouTube.In the 10 minute piece, Moss, 37, ... More >>

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  Somebody Got Murdered: Two Dead in Brooklyn Melee

  published Jun 07, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: June 6, 2009, 8:10 p.m. LOCATION: Vicinity of 9009 Avenue A, Brooklyn A bystander who tried to intervene in a street fight was killed along with one of the antagonists Saturday... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Double killing Off the Van Wyck

  published Jun 07, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: June 6, 2009, 12:33 p.m. LOCATION: 87-07 Van Wyck Expressway Yesterday, the police responding to a call of a man passed out arrived at the above address to find a man, 46, and ... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Stabbing on the West Side

  published Jun 07, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: June 6, 2009, 12:29 p.m. LOCATION: 145 West 71st St., Manhattan Police responding to a 911 call found a man in his 50's stabbed inside a building at 145 West 71st St. The victi... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Homicide on Tiffany Street

  published Jun 07, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: JUNE 5, 2009, 12:17 p.m. LOCATION: Tiffany Avenue and East 165th Street, The Bronx Well, the city almost made it through the work week without a homicide. But on Friday just af... More >>

• Rikers Boss Steps Down -- After 2-Year Voice Series

  published Jun 03, 2009

  City Correction and Probation Commissioner Martin Horn, one of Mayor Bloomberg's longest serving appointees, announced his resignation today. He's leaving a jail system that for the last two years has... More >>

• Black Cop Shot by White Officer in 1994, First Thought: "Not Again."

  published May 29, 2009

  When Desmond Robinson heard that white police officers had shot a black off-duty officer in Harlem, he woke his son and told him about it.The shooting of Officer Omar Edwards last night took Robinson ... More >>

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  Bloomberg Cautious in Remarks on Off-Duty Police Shooting

  published May 29, 2009

  When police officers in Brooklyn fired 50 shots and killed unarmed Sean Bell in November, 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg bluntly said the police used excessive force. "I can tell you that it is to me ... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Killed on Gun Hill Road

  published May 29, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: May 28, 2009, 6:25 p.m. LOCATION: 1660 Gun Hill Road, The Bronx The police are saying that a 32-year-old man was shot once in the head and once in the shoulder yesterday eveni... More >>

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  Somebody Got Murdered: Love Gone Bad (Update)

  published May 27, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: May 19, 2009, 12:15 a.m. LOCATION: 286 West 147th St., Manhattan Back on May 19, a lovers quarrel turned violent in an apartment at 286 West 147th St. in Harlem, and Tyrone Big... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: A Fatal Shooting in Parkchester (Update)

  published May 27, 2009

  View Larger Map The city almost made it through the Memorial Day Weekend without a homicide, but alas, it was not to be. On Sunday at about 10:30 p.m., the police arrived on a shots fired call and fo... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: A Fatal Shooting in Parkchester

  published May 26, 2009

  View Larger Map The city almost made it through the Memorial Day Weekend without a homicide, but alas, it was not to be. On Sunday at about 10:30 p.m., the police arrived on a shots fired call and fo... More >>

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  Somebody Got Murdered: Shooting Death in Woodhaven

  published May 26, 2009

  View Larger Map Shortly before 2 a.m. this morning, police found a man shot several times outside 94-30 86th Road in the Woodhaven section of Queens, just south of Forest Park. (We could only get wit... More >>

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  FBI Agent on Synagogue Case Has Questionable Record

  published May 21, 2009

  The FBI agent with a high-profile role in yesterday's arrests of four men for plotting a terror attack in New York has a pretty interesting -- and controversial -- track record.Special Agent Robert Fu... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Stabbing in Harlem

  published May 20, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: May 19, 2009, 12:15 a.m. LOCATION: 286 West 147th St., Manhattan Not much to say about this one yet, but the police are saying a 52-year-old man was stabbed to death inside an ... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Jumped, Stabbed Sunday Night

  published May 18, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Sunday, May 17, 10: 24 p.m. LOCATION: near 2218 79th St. In the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn last night at least three men jumped and fatally stabbed 16-year-old Misael Gonz... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Wheelchair Bound Man Slain (Update)

  published May 18, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Monday, May 18, 2009 LOCATION: Linden Boulevard and Autumn Avenue Wow, even a wheel-chair won't protect you. NY1 is reporting that a wheelchair bound man was shot and killed ear... More >>

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  Somebody Got Murdered: Of Livery Cabs and Love Gone Bad

  published May 15, 2009

  No one ever said driving a livery cab is an easy job: the pay sucks, the hours are terrible, and then of course, there is always the chance that someone will try to kill you. That's what happ... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Knifing in the Bronx UPDATE

  published May 14, 2009

  Yesterday we told you about a fatal stabbing in a Bronx park. It took police less than 48 hours to make an arrest in the murder of 23-year-old Nimzay Aponte (right) at St. Mary's Park in the Bronx. ... More >>

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  Somebody Got Murdered: Shooting in Sheepshead Bay

  published May 14, 2009

  View Larger MapLOCATION: Voorhies Avenue and East 18th StreetTIME: 12:47 a.m. this morningA 50-year-old native of India was shot and mortally wounded shortly after midnight Thursday in the Sheepshead ... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Knifing in the Bronx

  published May 13, 2009

  View Larger MapLOCATION: St. Mary's Street & Beekman Avenue, the BronxTIME: Tuesday 5/12/09 at approximately 12:31 p.m.If someone gets killed in Central Park, it's big news. Not so when it happens... More >>

• Luxury Hotel Planned for Ground Zero

  published May 13, 2009

  Good Grief! Stymied in its plans to glut the World Trade Center site with more office space, the Port Authority is now planning to build a luxury hotel overlooking the site, the New York Post report... More >>

• Rikers Fight Club: New Law a Response to Jail Violence

  published May 11, 2009

  Following a drumbeat of negative news about the city jail for teenagers, and after the outcry over the murder of 18-year-old Christopher Robinson there, Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a bill yesterday... More >>

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  Rangel and Neighbor Have Similar Rent Problems, Very Different Outcomes

  published May 08, 2009

  Last summer, Congressman Charles Rangel took some bad press because it turned out that the wealthy Harlem pol had four rent stabilized apartments in a 135th Street residential tower.Naturally, the dis... More >>

• Noose-Door Columbia Prof Claims Computers Hacked in Plagiarism Hunt

  published Apr 21, 2009

  A lawyer for former Columbia Teachers College professor Madonna Constantine -- who first came to public attention when a noose was affixed to her office door -- claims the school either erased or lost... More >>