Email Author Rivka Gewirtz Little

2003 Stories by Rivka Gewirtz Little

• Lost Legacy?

  published December 9, 2003

  In 1999, when Gidone Busch, an Orthodox Jew with a history of mental illness who was wielding a hammer, was gunned down by police, many protested... More >>

• The Visible Man

  published July 29, 2003

  Slain councilman James E. Davis had a knack for infuriating old-school pols with his braggadocio—he publicly proclaimed that he would become... More >>

• Close-Up on Hamilton Grange

  published July 22, 2003

  Portions of this article have been updated. Out of the strange intermingling of... More >>

• More NYPD No-Knocks

  published June 17, 2003

  A thundering boom in her Brooklyn apartment exploded into Jeanine Jean's sleep. Shrieking, she grabbed her crying six-year-old son and the phone,... More >>

• One Million Gone?

  published May 13, 2003

  Mayor Michael Bloomberg remains astoundingly silent as death looms for the rent stabilization of 1 million New York City apartments affected by... More >>

• Free Speech and Funding Fears

  published April 29, 2003

  Political self-defense seems to be the most savory of theories behind why the City University of New York Law School's dean nixed a student bid to... More >>

• Tough Yardage

  published April 8, 2003

  There's respect and then there's R-E-S-P-E-C-T. In the world of women's tackle football, the New York Sharks have both. The Sharks are the 9-0... More >>

• Who's Minding the Kids?

  published March 18, 2003

  The death of her 19-month-old baby boy Myssiah (pronounced Messiah) is wound tightly around Kyla Minus, like a rope. Her arms barely swing free... More >>

• Writer Blocked

  published January 28, 2003

  "Why are those people out there yelling?" an irked, graying white woman stage-whispered to a friend in an Upper West Side Barnes & Noble. "You... More >>

• Renaissance Rats

  published January 21, 2003

  The sour scent of decaying rodent in Randel Stubbs's apartment might not have been a shocker in the dilapidating Harlem of the '70s, when... More >>