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

• 'Maersk Alabama' Update: Why Giving Merchant Seamen Weapons Won't Help

  published Apr 17, 2009

  While a crewman aboard the M/V/ Maersk Alabama seems to imply in a note to friends that merchant vessels need weapons to battle future Somali pirate attacks, a leading maritime security expert says th... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Maersk Email Shows Tense Standoff, Resourceful Crew, "Desperate" Pirates (UPDATE: Full Text of Email)

  published Apr 16, 2009

  The crew of the M/V Maersk Alabama acted quickly to take control of key areas of the vessel after Somali pirates attacked on April 8, according to a crewmember's account obtained by the Voice. (The... More >>

• Follow-Up: Ejected Police Press Get Place to Plug In Laptops

  published Apr 15, 2009

  Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's amended proposal to house reporters stationed at 1 Police Plaza in an auditorium -- he had originally thrown them out on their ears -- is getting panned in media circle... More >>

• NYPD to Press: Fuck Off (Updated)

  published Apr 14, 2009

  Police commissioner Ray Kelly has decided to eject reporters from police headquarters -- a move that ends decades of tradition and may be one of the most egregious assaults on freedom of the press and... More >>

• How Century-Old Burial Societies Were Taken Over by Black-Market Speculators

  published April 15, 2009

  For California paperhanger Mark Specht, the moment of truth in his long-running fight with a Jewish burial society based in the Lower East Side... More >>

• Rikers Fight Club: The Knockout Punch

  published April 15, 2009

  For a year prior to the murder of 18-year-old Christopher Robinson on Rikers Island, the second and third highest officials in the city... More >>

• Stadium Easier to Build than Schoolyard

  published Apr 10, 2009

  It's buried on page 29 of today's Daily News, but the Juan Gonzalez column on the Yankees may be the best story of the day.    The column points out that All Hallows High School still d... More >>

• The Hoop Dreams of 11-Year-Olds

  published Apr 03, 2009

  In the world of elite youth basketball, the pinnacle of achievement is to get to the AAU National championships. But what happens there often strains relationships to the breaking point and forces raw... More >>

• Sign of the Times: Author Switches from Sex to Survival Book

  published Apr 01, 2009

  Neil Strauss, the former New York Times reporter who gave us books on how to get women into the sack and how to do it like a porn star, is back with a new book. What's the subject this timer Enlarging... More >>

• Strange Choreography at the Big Dance

  published Mar 24, 2009

  Want a sign that Division I college basketball coaches are out of controlr Check out the Times story today on the elaborate rituals of timeouts in big time games. Coaches now script their timeouts. Th... More >>

• Bad Cop, No Donut: A Town Considers Martial Law

  published Mar 24, 2009

  Whoa, things are so bad in the upstate town of Schenectady that the mayor is thinking about declaring martial law. Who says North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Il can't teach us anythingr   ... More >>

• Typical: The Times goes across country for a story in its own backyard

  published Mar 23, 2009

  Right on the heels of our article on youth basketball, the Times, in its Sunday magazine, published its own takeout on the subject. While our story keeps the focus on the incredibly interesting local ... More >>

• Web Extra: Elite youth basketball's throwback mentor

  published Mar 18, 2009

  In the course of reporting our youth basketball story in this week's Voice, we met many interesting people. Unfortunately, we couldn't get everyone into the paper. So here's our piece on Hammer Steven... More >>

• The Raw Intensity of New York's Elite Youth Basketball

  published March 18, 2009

  Some kid's father is coming across the court. Toward me. In the middle of the game, with kids running past him, and he doesn't seem to... More >>

• Man Saves New York, And Wants Everyone To Know

  published Mar 17, 2009

  Man saves New York!The San Jose Mercury News took a moment today to profile a codger who back in the day put out a fire on board an ammo-loaded ship in New York City harbor, thus, according to the sto... More >>

• Family of Dead Inmate Confronted by Angry Correction Officers Outside Court

  published Mar 12, 2009

  Simmering tensions between the family of a teenager beaten to death at Rikers Island and correction officers erupted today at the Bronx courthouse.    As an arraignment for several inma... More >>

• The Lost Art of Going to Jail

  published Mar 09, 2009

  [Photo of Barrios from soaw.org]There are those cynics in this generation who believe that public protest is more or less a dead art -- long discredited, a relic of the sixties.But don't tell that to ... More >>

• Sound Off to Obama! (Not That He's Listening)

  published Mar 04, 2009

  Twitter is taking over the world in part because no one has an attention span anymore. Most folks don't want to write or read more than the 140-word limit of a tweet.So, if that's the case, will limit... More >>

• Jails Commissioner Finally Confronted by City Council

  published Feb 23, 2009

  In the ongoing controversy over the murder of teenager Christopher Robinson at a Rikers Island jail, someone in the City Council finally tried to pin down Correction Commissioner Martin Horn on what h... More >>

• Rikers Fight Club: Not Just A Recent Problem

  published Feb 12, 2009

  Our "Rikers Fight Club" coverage has prompted additional people to report their own nasty experiences at the teen jail where 18-year-old Christopher Robinson was beaten to death by inmates allegedly w... More >>

• Rikers Fight Club: More Widespread Then The City Admits

  published Feb 12, 2009

  Even as indictments came down for two jail guards accused of using teen inmates as enforcers, Correction Department officials sought to downplay the breadth of the problem.The indictments last month f... More >>

• Jail Guard Union Throws Party for Indicted Guards

  published Feb 09, 2009

     Last Friday, the Voice has learned, the union for correction officers held a 10-hour fundraiser to benefit three members who were indicted two weeks ago for deputizing teen inmates as enf... More >>

• Rikers Fight Club

  published February 4, 2009

  Eighteen months after the Voice first reported cases of jail guards using inmates as enforcers, Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson... More >>

• Study: Denying College to Prison Inmates Is Boneheaded

  published Feb 02, 2009

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• Richard Leck, Longtime Village Figure, Finally Laid to Rest

  published Jan 23, 2009

  Richard Leck, the East Village habitue whose death we reported two weeks ago, was buried today in Calverton National Cemetery on Long Island. Leck, 75, a former soldier, died of heart disease on Dec.... More >>