April 25th, 1985, just after 11:00 in the morning, the corner of West 35th Street and 10th Avenue, in the shadow of the Javits Convention Center. Michael Holly was walking to work. Construction boots, lunch pail, a union card in his pocket. He never heard the car pull up behind him. He never…
The year is 1978. The place is a steakhouse in Brooklyn, backroom, closed to the public. Three men sit at a table covered in white linen. One is a butcher. One is a killer with dead eyes. One is Irish, 29 years old, his hands still rough from a decade of waterfront…
In 1999, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 6 to3 in favor of Eddie Richardson. He won. He was serving a federal life sentence at the time, had been since 1995. And from inside that cell, no press conference, no rally, no celebrity advocate holding a microphone on his behalf,…
November 18th, 1978. 5:30 in the afternoon. The Sun Bright Bar, 736 10th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. Mickey Spillane was walking to his car in Woodside, Queens, when a man stepped out from behind a parked sedan and opened fire. Four rounds, point-blank range. Spillane dropped on the sidewalk outside his apartment…
November 18th, 1978. 5:30 in the afternoon. The Sun Bright Bar, 736 10th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. Mickey Spillane was walking to his car in Woodside, Queens, when a man stepped out from behind a parked sedan and opened fire. Four rounds, point-blank range. Spillane dropped on the sidewalk outside his apartment…
There is a peculiar paradox at the heart of Princess Margaret’s existence that only fully reveals itself when you look at a deed of sale for a house on a Caribbean speck of land called Mystique. the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, a woman who spent her entire life in palaces,…
I have never understood the worship of the Kennedys. Not the grief of November 1963, that is entirely human. And the footage of a 3-year-old boy saluting a coffin will break your heart every time, regardless of what you think about the man inside it. Not the nostalgia for a moment in…
At this point, it’s very well known. Princess Margaret wasn’t a good person. She was entitled, rude, and belittled anyone she felt was beneath her. And if that sounds familiar, it should. Because before there was Prince Andrew, there was Margaret. That isn’t a casual comparison. It’s a structural one. Two second-born…
Those who wish to make the trip to Parkland Hospital find a floral circlet marking that space which the hospital chillingly calls trauma room number one. It was here that the stricken president was rushed and here that he was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. that day, despite the best efforts of…
April 23rd, 1996. Sotheby’s York Avenue sales rooms, New York. The first session begins at 7:30 in the evening. Outside the building, people have been lining up since before noon. Inside, more than 1,500 registered bidders hold catalog numbers. They have come from 19 countries. Sotheby’s issued 104,611 copies of the sale…
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