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Retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective Gary Jenkins sits down with former NYPD officer Jimmy Dennedy and NYC Brooklyn prosecutor Michael Vecchione for a gripping discussion on violent crime, justice, and redemption. Jimmy recounts the shocking murder of NYPD officers Rocco Laurie and Gregory Foster by the Black Liberation Army, while Michael reveals the challenges of prosecuting those responsible. The conversation then shifts to something unexpected—redemption. After retiring, Jimmy began working in prison ministry, where he witnessed firsthand how even hardened criminals, including mobsters, can change their lives. This episode dives deep into: The reality of cop killings in New York City The struggle to prosecute violent offenders Inside stories from mob cases Redemption and transformation inside prisons Get the book Hard Guys Cry. If you're interested in true crime, mafia history, and real law enforcement stories, this is an episode you don't want to miss. Subscribe for more mafia history and true crime stories every week. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. [0:00] Hey, all you wiretappers, good to be back here in studio, Gangland Wire. This is Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective and now turned podcaster. And I have another retired cop here on the show, Jimmy Dennedy. Jimmy, I tell you what, I had it down, Dennedy, like Kennedy. And our friend who’s been on here several times, Michael Vecchione. Welcome, Michael. Welcome, Jimmy. Thank you very much for having us, Gary. Thank you. All right. Michael has several books out there. He’s, he’s prosecuted the mob. That’s how I got onto him. He prosecuted the, he had something to do with the mob cops, Louis Eppolito. And I can’t remember exactly now. I should have made a note on that, Michael. What was the name of that book? [0:48] The name of the book? Friends of the Family. Friends of the Family. Is that those two New York PD coppers that were in the pay of? Louis Eppolito and Louis Eppolito was one of the cops. And you know what, Gary? during the, when Jimmy, when you talk to Jimmy, Jimmy has a kind of a, an odd situation regarding Louie Eppolito. And, and it’s a good story. I think he should tell you, tell your listeners. All right. Great. We look forward to that, Jimmy and Jimmy Denity, who was a New York city policeman. And he has a book, tough dies to cry. Hard guys cry. Let me do that over again. Yeah. I said, I left, I had it written down here and he had Jimmy Denity is here with us. He is a retired New York City copper, and he has a book, Hard Guy’s Cry. So welcome, Jimmy. [1:34] Good morning. Thank you very much for having me. All right, Michael, you and Jimmy, did you guys work together a little bit on the job? Did you know each other back then? Yeah, we certainly did. We’ve probably known each other now for maybe 45 or more years. I got to know Jimmy because I got assigned a case involving, unfortunately, the death, the murder of two New York City police officers who were assigned to Jimmy’s precinct at the time in Bed-Stuy. And it was a case that had been tried twice before I got it. And there were hung juries in both of the cases. And the DA at that point was going to just simply decide to not prosecute it anymore. And the head of the policeman’s union went to the DA, the district attorney, and said, listen, just give it one more shot. So I was at the time the head of a group called the Major Offense Bureau in the Brooklyn DA’s office. And I got, I’ll never forget this. I was sitting at my desk and the boss of the unit, the bureau that I was part of, came into my office and said, come with me. We’ll go to see the DA. [2:41] I didn’t know. I thought maybe I was in trouble for some reason, but I sat down and he said, listen, I want to give you one more shot. I want to take this case to trial one more time and you are the guy that we want to do it. So I was happy to do it. I tried a lot of cases by that point. And, and the best part of the whole situation, Gary is I met Jimmy Danity. That was, he, we became fast friends and I got to tell you a little funny story. He had been involved in the two other trials. [3:11] But when he sat down with me, the first thing he said to me was, or one of the first things was, do you eat lunch? I said, yeah, of course I eat lunch. Why? He said, the guy that tried the case before you and the one before him, they didn’t eat lunch. And by the time the afternoon came, their energy was all waned, had waned. And he said, so here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to have lunch on your desk every time you come back for the lunch break from the trial. And he did. There was a sandwich waiting for me every day when I came back, and he is the guy that brought it to me. But before the trial, we went out. Me, Jimmy, and detective from the Homicide Bureau, who was assigned to the case. [3:57] Tony Martin, went out to the scene. And again, another one of these scenes, which I’ll never forget. The scene was in the middle of Bed-Stuy on Troop Avenue. Jimmy, that was the, yeah. [4:10] Willoughby and Troop. Willoughby and Troop. So we’re on the street and the three of us are standing there right on the sidewalk. And we look around and I said to Tony, did you hit every one of these buildings looking for witnesses? Because there was a problem with the case with the witnesses. One had died in a very strange way. And so he looked around I don’t know if you remember this, Jimmy And he pointed to a building Diagonally across from the spot Where the two cops were shot And he said, Mike We never went into that building, And Jimmy and Tony went into the building, canvassed it and came up with two new witnesses. And so it was a wonderful experience working with Jimmy. He was a hard worker. He really was tied to this case in the sense that these guys were his friends. They were two guys who were gunned down for really no reason by a member of the Black Liberation Army at the time who was part of the Attica riots here in New York. He was actually one of the guys who started the Attica riots in New York. And he was out and he was with another guy. And we believe that they were going to meet another one of their fellow. [5:27] I don’t want to call them gang members, to set up a robbery. And that’s why they were in Brooklyn. And the case had so many ups and downs and twists and turns. And it was something which I obviously will never forget. But the best part about it, I’ll repeat myself, is that I met Jimmy Denity. And he and I have been friends from that point on until today. And so let me just get to the book because Hard Guy’s Cry to me was a labor of love. It really was. I got a call one afternoon and I’m sitting out on my deck and Jimmy calls me and we just got to talking and he asked me about doing a book about his life and his story. And I said, it’s great. There are lots of books out there about cops and street cops and what they’ve done on the street. He said, so he said, oh, but he started to now expand on it. And then he told me the second part of his career, which was the prison ministry in the federal prison and a state prison here in New York. And I said, Jimmy, you buried the lead. That’s the part of this book that I can sell to a publisher. Because Gary, you probably know this. You probably interviewed these guys who do books when they retire. This was just going to be one of those. Jimmy’s career on the street was terrific. [6:47] The only problem was there are lots of guys who have books out there like that. So when he told me the story about his prison ministry, I was working at the time with a partner of mine, Jerry Schmetterer, who has now passed away. And we both talked about it and we said, this is definitely a story. This is definitely a book. And it’s been a long journey, Jim, until we got to this point. We’ve had COVID. We’ve had the Minneapolis, the guy in Minneapolis who was killed and agents saying to us, nobody wants to publish a book about a good cop. Nobody wants to do that. You can’t sell this until I didn’t give up. I really didn’t give up. And I took the proposal and I rewrote it after Jerry died. And then I sent it out to a couple of publishers and one of them grabbed it and said, yes, I want to do this. And then believe it or not, Gary, his publishing company hit the skids in terms of being able to spend money. He went out of business. So I had one more shot and I gave it to the publisher of my novels. [7:55] And she finally is the one who said, yes, let’s do this. And then here we are today. [8:01] It’s really, again, I said this before, but it was a journey of love. It really was to tell this guy’s story. and we, I know I’m repeating myself, but we became such good friends that our families got to know each other. I went to Jimmy’s house for holidays. We really just became very good friends. And here we are. And I’m so happy that I was able to write this book because I really believe that the people who read it will say, wow, this is a great guy. This is a great guy. And he is. Interesting. Hey, Jimmy, I got a couple of questions for you. Now, you worked, that was the Rocco and Lori case, if I remember right. And everybody who worked big city policing at the time, that scared the dog shit out of us. It was like these guys just laid in wait for a couple patrolmen to walk by, stepped out and shot them. That was my impression. And I worked that kind of a neighborhood. And we were jumping. We were pretty jumpy for quite a while. And it wasn’t solved for a while. We knew it was some kind of a political act, or at least that’s what we’re led to believe. Did you guys feel the same way in New York? Let me just stop you for a second. The case that I did with Jimmy was Norman Cerullo and Christina Soames years later. The one that you’re talking about, Rocco Laurie and Gregory Foster, was much earlier. [9:21] Jimmy was involved in it because he was a good friend of Rocco Laurie. They went to the academy together. But I’m sorry to interrupt, but I just wanted to make sure that we were talking about the right thing. [9:33] So that kind of a case, you actually went through two of them. So tell us about your feelings about that. Did that, how did that affect your dealings on the street? I was in the academy with Rocco Laurie, right? And we had both come out of the Marine Corps at the same time. And we worked out together. We boxed together. And some of the guys were slacking off. The guy’s name was Mr. Clean. He was the instructor. He would say, okay, now you’re going to box with Denny or you’re going to box with Laurie. Of course, they were slacking. We weren’t slacking. Oh, God. That was me. They said, Jenkins, go over there and box with one of those guys. No brother in Lime. [10:12] So we became close we we knew his wife he knew that time it was my girlfriend but that was my wife we had gone out to dinner and he was a really good man in the academy i won the gun for physical fitness he won the gun for overall excellence and we got pictures with our guns together and stuff. So I was working at midnight with this guy, Victor Grillo, nice guy. And a job came over. Cops shot in Manhattan. We were in Brooklyn. It’s on the other side of the bridge. So we’re saying, wait. And that became the ninth precinct. That’s where Rocco worked. So we used to call him the Rock. I hope it’s not the Rock. And it turns out it was him. These guys executed him. They were basically a domestic terrorist group. They were robbing banks. They were killing cops for no reason. They just walked past them, turned around, opened up on them. And they shot them all over the face to the groin. And then they took their guns and shot them. And some of the guns actually wound up out in St. Louis or in West Area. [11:16] So did it affect me? Absolutely. I became, I don’t want to say callous, but I was very leery of everybody. [11:26] And I started, my niche was guns. I locked up a lot of guys for a lot of guns. But anything to do with it, Black Liberation Army or anything, I used to accumulate information, intelligence information, and my locker was full of it. I’d lock up a guy, and they used to have years ago the little address books. I used to take their address books, and they would ask me information, the FBI, the Major K-Squad, Jimmy, have any information on this guy? And which I did many times, right? Fast forward several years later, I’m out, and I’m having a few cocktails, and then i drove back to the precinct the 79th precinct to meet a friend of mine bobby perry, and while i was at the front of the desk there’s a place they could check your messages if anybody calls you messages so i’m checking my messages and it came over shots fired then it came over cop shot then it came over two cop shot then i drove down to my civilian car right it was dark, and it was like help you know radio card door is open you know I mean blood all over the place he also shot his friend right and he’s laying it dead with a gun in his hand his blood all over the place it was a nightmare so let me figure this out but now everybody name others coming down because he’s cop-killing students a doubleheader so to speak and then I see the blood going across the street and the blood stops. [12:53] So obviously somebody was shot. It’s not our guys. And then I assume he got into a car. [13:00] So I’m trying to figure, is he going to go to the Spanish neighborhood or deeper into the black neighborhood? And I said, let me go to the hospital. So I drive to the hospital to see if they need blood or anything. And out of the corner of my eye, when I passed Lexington Avenue, I see there had been a car accident. A guy hit parked cars. I kept going. And then I told Mike, you know, my father gave us a game when we were kids. It was called Game in the States. at a map of the united states and you had two little electric wires and you plug one into the state and there’s a list of capitals on the other side and when you hit that the light would go on you got the right answer and as god is the lord a light went off in my head just like it was the right state capital yeah went to the hospital and they did you know and then this guy paulie has ever seen him he’s crying he was in plain clothes anti-crime i said paulie listen to me Two things. Once, I want to come in the car. I’m going to go back to the scene. Because when I got there, there was a Spanish guy on the pool across the street. And he was a little biggazy type guy himself. But he used to give me information. He used to give me information on his competitors. Yeah. [14:10] Yes. So when he saw me, you know, he ran. Right? I wanted to come back and talk to him. But on the way back, I said, Paul, I’m going to stop at this accident scene. This is, it’s just there. Yeah. Go back there. Ambulance is starting to pull away fire truck was there pulling away so i went over there they said it’s an accident scene the guy’s injured i said what kind of injury is it the guy said well he dressed his wound because he won he refused medical aid this guy so i said i just dressed his wound i saw undress the wound let me look at it i’m not undressing the wound i went over and i just ripped it off and it’s a gunshot wound yeah right yeah so all he had a radio calls the sergeant down and they bring a witness from willoughby avenue she comes down she says that’s the guy who killed the two cops so we get him put him in the ambulance right in the ambulance he’s a big boy this guy right and he goes reach and grabs my gun from my holster so now it’s like an arm wrestle for the gun between me him and paulie saracena and during this arm wrestle necessary force was used and the necessary force was used until he dropped the gun or he got the gun from him. Goes to the hospital. He has a Derringer behind his belt buckle and he has police handcuff key. [15:38] These guys are the real deal. Yeah, that’s a real deal. They train for this stuff. They associate but others that train they shoot you know what i mean so it’s just uncanny that rocko was my friend and he was murdered in a double police homicide and then a few years later i lock up a guy from the same team that killed two of my friends you know it was a nightmare and then we went to trial and that’s how i met mike and it’s a very. [16:09] It’s pressing on your brain. Yeah. Something like this happens. And then, and I don’t have to tell you, Gary, but then you get other cases. So you’re making more gun arrests, but you still have this. You know what I mean? It’s, it’s tough. It’s tough. But it was. I just want to interrupt for one second. One of the, Jimmy mentioned her. They brought a witness back to the scene to identify the, the bad guy. And, uh, and she was a great witness. She was there when the shooting occurred. She was actually moving into the building that the shooting happened in front of. And so the case was, we had a couple of, she was the best eyewitness to the case. And as Jimmy and Tony Martin, the detective who were assigned together after the actual arrest, because we had, they had to get the case together and look for more witnesses, et cetera. [16:58] They went one day to see this particular young woman to talk to her and see what was, if everything was still good, if she was okay. Turns out she was in the hospital nobody knew this she had gone into the hospital we were told because she had a cold she died in the hospital gary from a cold which is what we thought turns out she had encephalitis but the thing was at the time we said who goes into a hospital number one with a cold and who dies from a cold so we at that point not me but i wasn’t on the case yet, but others. And then when Jimmy told me this later on, I said to myself. [17:42] It’s got to be some connection to the bad guys. Maybe they poisoned her. Maybe they did something and we looked into it. It turned out, Jimmy, what was the disease that she had? I think she had herpes viral encephalitis in the brain. It’s a possibility that it can be induced. Yeah. So that’s what we looked at. And the medical examiner at the time of the death never really looked. The DA who had the case at the time thought, ah, this is a slam dunk. We had this witness, that witness. Jimmy arrests the guy and he’s got the bullet, which another thing happened. He wouldn’t allow the medical people to take the bullet out of his leg. It was the cop’s bullet. Yeah. So we wouldn’t, he wouldn’t let him do it. So we had to go with a, an x-ray of the bullet at the trial instead of the bullet itself. But it was, it’s a case with, as I said before, excuse me, many twists and turns. And it’s the whole story is in the book. And I don’t want to take away from Jimmy’s story here, but I have a legal question. You couldn’t get a search warrant to take the bullet out of a person. Is that? [18:51] We tried, and you know what the judge said? No. Uh-huh, okay. I just, I never ran into that. I’ve heard that before where the bullet stays inside and you can’t get it. I just. [19:03] I tried. The judge wouldn’t give us the search, the ability to search, quote unquote, which meant taking the bullet out of his leg. Anyway, so that’s where we, that’s where we met. And it was, it was quite a case. And Jimmy, I understand you, you go through your career and you see all these horrible things and you’re harding yourself. And you know, the title of your book, hard girls, hard boys, hard men cry. I don’t know why I got hard guys cry. I don’t know why I can’t remember. I should remember from Norman Mailer’s tough guys don’t dance, but hard guys cry. And so you harden yourself all those years, but then something happened in your life. Apparently that changed, changed that. I know after I retired, partly what happened to me is I became a lawyer and I started dealing with people from not particularly criminals, but many times relatives of people who had gone to jail. And I worked for public defenders and really got to know people on the other side and realize that we’re just two sides of the same coin many times trying to get along and trying to get by. So what happened in your life that changed that, your attitude? [20:11] When I retired, there was an old man who was a farmer, and it was like a late-year-type situation. This farmhouse was falling apart. The second floor was owned by raccoons. He had electricity in one room and no running water, but he was the calmest, nicest, most spiritual guy you ever wanted to meet. Almost no teeth. He had one tooth. And there was Louis Adamski. We used to call him Louis the farmer. So I used to take care of Louis. was taking over my house for Thanksgiving, Christmas, driving down this long driveway, see how he’s doing. And I didn’t see him for a while. So I drove down the driveway one particular day and I said, Louie, I haven’t seen you. You haven’t called. He said, he had bladder cancer. I said, really? I said, wow. He said, you had two surgeries. I said, you’re going for follow-up treatment? And he said, I’m supposed to go every 90 days, but he had no insurance, zero, no Social services, nothing. And the doctors were suing him. And they wanted his farm. He owned one-tenth of his farm. It had about 80 acres. But it was heirs. Everybody in his family had passed away. I said, Louie, you got to get follow-up treatment. So there was a city that’s not about a half hour away called Newburgh, New York. And there was a urologist I was familiar with. So I told him the story. This guy has nothing. He said to me, if you will drive him, I will treat him like the president of the United States. [21:40] So for two and a half years, just about every month, sometimes twice a week, it all depends when his visits were, I would drive Louie. So it was like an all day affair almost because I have my own business, so I don’t show up for work. What do I care? So I take care of Louie all this time and my friends are patting me on the back saying, oh, you’re Louie’s angel. So one particular day we go in and… [22:03] He, if Louis checker, he calls me into the, uh, his consultation room and he says, so your friend’s cancer is back. She got to be kidding me. He said, yeah, I feel it on his prostate. He said, he has someone for biopsy Friday. This was on a Wednesday. I said, I don’t know how he’s going to get there. It’s an old day. I said, doc, listen, I’m married to this guy for two and a half years. I said, I’ll take him. He said, you sure? It was an old day. I said, doc, I don’t care. He said, all right. He said, I’ll tell you what, as long as you’re going to take them, your PSA is just borderline high. He said, I feel there’s nothing on your prostate, but if you’re going to take it, let me give you a biopsy too. I said, fine, I don’t care. So I take, we both get the biopsy. The next Wednesday, he calls them both of us in. I have cancer as well, worse than his, right? So he got radiation. I went out to New York City. There was a top flight surgeon in Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. And I told him the story like I’m telling you now. So he said, you got to cut that out of there. You don’t want it in there. So they cut me a half. They took it out. And in the recovery room, he comes in and he says to me, you weren’t Louis’ angel. Louis was your angel. He said, you had a C-grade cancer. It was starting to spread, but I got everything. [23:15] So he said, you would have been dead about a year and a half. He said, because you had no signs, no symptoms. By the time you had the symptoms, it would be all over. Yeah. So it changes the way you think that I was invited to go on to this, a religious retreat weekend, a Cresillo weekend. I didn’t want to go. I’m not a holy roller. It’s not my cup of tea, but I socially boxed in like friends. So then your wife has to go too. So my wife, Noraline said, oh, I’ll go. And I said, oh, yeah, now I got to go. So I go on this week. it’s it’s thursday friday saturday sunday you can’t bring a watch you didn’t have cell phones then right so you’re stuck there so i went and i hooked up for a couple of other ex-marines and this actor mike was poorly he was on the sopranos so i sit in the back like we’re just going to ride this one out oh we can write it out it turns out that it was very moving, it’s very moving and people spoke that thought they were like punks i knew them indirectly they had quite a story to tell and then, weekend was over and on the way back it was November and I was telling Mike I rolled the windows down it was like spring, spring in my mind you see things differently like these computer generated pictures you see what it is but if you stare at it long enough another picture comes out within the picture and kind of life came out of life for me I saw things differently, Then these guys asked me to go into the prison. [24:42] Listen, I say, listen, you’re a carpenter. You’re a plumber. You don’t know what these guys are. I’ve thrown these guys down stamps and shot a guy at my house. Crazy. Again, I’m socially boxed in. So we go up to the prison. It was 41 of us, 41 of us. It’s called the Kairos. It’s an interdenominational… [25:01] Prison ministry. So I sit in a big circle, piece of paper, it passes around. When you get it, you have to say who you are, where you’re from. So I get it. I said, my name’s Jimmy Danity. I live in Orange County, New York. I’m married. I have two children, and I retired from the Oak City Police Department. They booed me. I told Mike, it was like an old dog growling. Yeah. Yeah. I said, what am I doing here? So the next day, because you had to sleep up in the prison too, The next day, you’re at a table. So you have an inmate on either side. So there’s like maybe nine people at the table. And there’s three of us, six of them. And don’t ask them what they did. Never referred them as a prisoner, as a resident. They were like, guys, I grew up with their neighbor. I said, what did you do? You stupid. So it becomes, it was a religious weekend. But also, it’s practical life. And you guys were good. You know what I mean? I got along well with them. So we did every day and it was friday saturday sunday they finished and that’s it i’m done i’m done with this i said i’d do it and i’m saying i wonder if any of my guys would show up to a wednesday night they have a wednesday night follow-up at this organization i wonder if any of my guys would be there so you know what let me show let me go to one wednesday right all my guys. [26:22] Oh, my gosh. And that was the only, Gary, that was the only table where all of them showed up again. So that’s why he knew that this was the right thing for him. I’m sorry, Jim. I just want to know. And so this was still in the prison. Yeah. Back up the prison. Yeah. And they invited these guys. If you want, you can come to this follow up. At that time, every Wednesday at six o’clock, they could go into the chapel to this particular group meeting. So I just want to see if any of my guys are going to show up. They all showed up and then the volunteers drop off and then i said let me do another wednesday, and another wednesday and it comes like everybody wants to talk to you it’s like when you go into the pet store where puppies say they want you to pick them like pick me and it you get you wind up with a group i tell mike they’re my guys and then you wind up it’s a spiritual thing no question about it right it’s brand involved and everything but you go through life with these guys and a lot them have a lot of crazy situations yeah and one guy is a mafia guy and i think frankie and he wants to say jimmy this new guy he wants to talk to your jug it’s all right so he takes me behind this little interdenomination altar they got there right so i said hey don’t you he says remember me i said no he said you should you broke my nose so i said when did i break your nose He said. [27:46] Yeah, in the park on 53rd Street where we used to play hockey. He said, your brother, I remember you. I mentioned his name, his last name. I said, you were messing with the park attendant. I slammed a basketball in his face. You know what I mean? He never forgot it. They told Frankie, yeah, he was crazy before he went to the Marine Corps. I’d make guys in there. [28:04] I worked. Yeah. The drug cases that they had. [28:09] You know, I knew who their bosses were. I testified in Philadelphia against one of these guys’ big bosses. And it’s just, it was like almost an inside straight. It was like meant to be. It was meant to be. And then my parish priest, so then I started, I was in the denominational night. The Catholic guys had nothing. I started a Catholic night with a few other good guys, my friend Brian and a few other guys, right, on Thursday. So now I’m going there Wednesday and Thursday. So my parish priest said, the state maximum security doesn’t have anything like this. Let’s start one there. So I’m going Wednesday, the federal prison, Thursday to the state max. You know, and it, I did it for 25 years, two days a week. Wow. And if the guys in Brooklyn, where I was a cop, knew I was doing this, they say, wrong guy, definitely. Somebody else, you got the wrong guy. Yeah. It’s the way the good Lord leads you. Now, something changed in your life and it’s not like you had any control of it. It just, it changed. You opened yourself up. It seems to me like it. And you just didn’t have any choice but to go down this path. And you know what it is also, Gary, it’s also like you’re preventing crime. You’re doing the same thing only from the inside. From the inside, you want to change the way they think, the way they act. And there’s a million things I could tell you how I was able to change things in a prison. They’re going to stab somebody. The guy who was a rat. [29:32] And they didn’t like him. I didn’t like him. And I told him, listen, I like the guy. He said, you like the guy? Don’t get involved in this. I said, do what you want to do. I like the guy. They never touch the guy. Because if they do something like that, then they’re going to hurt you. [29:46] Gary, I think Jimmy should tell you, he’s talking about the effect he had on these guys. What really was the point of the prison ministry was to essentially make these guys, I think, better people and to change their lives. I think you should tell him, ask Jimmy, tell him the story of the Boston mobster because this one, this story has, it really hits home as to exactly what effect he had on someone who was one of guys that you might have on your show. someday. This guy was a really bad guy. And he was up there with Whitey Bulger, et cetera, in Boston. So I think it’s worthwhile to tell the story. And it really hits home in terms of how effective Jimmy was after being effective on the street, locking up these guys, what he did with the prison. So if you have a bit of time, I think it’s worthwhile to hear the story. Yeah, let’s hear it. I always want to hear stories about mobsters, anyhow. Yep. Go ahead, Jim. We were up at the federal prison, and it was during the holiday season, right? And the volunteer chaplain was Father Paul Papara, and he was giving a talk on forgiveness. So we had all these wise guys. It was a mess. They had all different guys. This particular time, a couple of wise guys, they had their arms folded, and they said, Father, you want me to forgive the guy that ratted me out? [31:05] He’s home with his family, and I’m here doing X amount of years left on my bid. So I raised my hand. so I said listen if this guy is lying and put you in prison for no reason shame on him he should rot in hell but if he just exposed what you did anyway you know you did it if you did it the good lord see you live in a fishbowl the guy just exposed you for what you did that’s, You have no bitch here, pal. Jimmy, this guy Jimmy, he’s a different name than him. Jimmy stands up and he says, listen, I’ve been in jail. I’ve killed people. I don’t want to, I forgive anybody. I want forgiveness. I’ll forgive anybody. So that was it. Eventually, Jimmy, a couple years later, goes home. So he called me at my office a couple years later and he wanted me to write a letter of reference to work at the docks with Homeland Security. I said, I don’t know how to write it. Put down that I was a prisoner and just what you thought of me. No problem. So I met him in the prison, stuff like that, right? [32:03] About a year after that or so, I get a call from him again. He says, hey, Jimmy, you got time? Hey, Jimmy. I said, good. I got all the time in the world for you. He said, what’s up, pal? He said, I was on a train platform. He says, and I see this guy. Him and his associate tried to kill me. They had stabbed me 13 times. He said, I already took care of his friend. And I walked up to him like a face-to-face with him. Then he recognized me the guy turned white and urinated all over himself because he knows he’s there jimmy says to me i put my finger on his face and i told him you know that thing you’re worried about right get out of here i forgive you i get the fuck out of here now and he says to me jimmy it would have been easier for me to clip this guy and to forgive the guy but i forgave him, And I’m saying, Jimmy, I’m so proud of you, I can’t, just, and he, for him to call me to tell me how he responded to that situation, you know, which was completely out of character to the old guy, the old Jim. He was very proud of himself, and I was very proud of him. [33:09] So that’s the story Mike has told. It was the story, quite frankly, Gary. Didn’t he have one of the Westies in there with him? They were some particularly brutal crew in New York City. Yeah, yeah, he did. [33:25] We had a few of them up there. We had Jimmy Coonan, who started the Westies. Oh, okay. Jimmy was there, and I was friendly with Jimmy because I knew guys that he knew. The guys at Otisville Prison is a high medium. [33:38] Lewisburg is a max so when guys behave even a max they could come down to the media so when he came down he never came to the services and stuff we were talking all the way on the side but another fellow was a Westie a tough guy you know what I mean they would, drive through jewelry stores, 50 miles an hour go inside and rob everything but they would go in there before with their girlfriends looking good dressed nice they knew where this stuff was and they would take everything and he wound up getting locked up for almost like a Lufthansa type thing at the airport only they got caught so he was at my first weekend in the prison and we became very close friends and I tried to help him and he responded very positively, and he’s sitting in a circle there’s a cross, whoever has the cross has the microphone, nobody interrupts when you’re done, the next guy talks, he was talking and we finished, the Spanish kid so the Spanish kid is talking and he’s talking, so I told him what are you talking for Rich he can’t be talking like that the kid’s talking so he didn’t come for a few months then he comes back right and we’re sitting there talking and then he has a cross and he puts his head down. [34:54] And he starts talking and he says, you know, something happened to me. You can’t explain it. You had a Spanish kid in the next cell, right? It was a new guy. They robbed the sneakers and the kid had no sneakers. I know he’s got his head down. Now I’m thinking maybe he robbed the kid’s sneakers, right? He says, I gave him my sneakers because I had an extra pair. And as he’s telling the story, his head is down. The floor is gray, but getting darker, the teardrops. He’s telling the story he’s crying and then he says maybe I’m not all bad after all yeah I said how can you think of yourself like that he eventually goes home so, we my wife Norley and I get invited to his wedding which is a no-no but the guy was home so and the wedding is on Mulberry Street in Little Italy. [35:46] Yeah so we go down at the wedding and we’re like the oddball there but He could introduce us to enough people, you know, and if you see change in people, it’s wonderful. If on the street, if you go to these religious retreats, people go jumping out like a gazelle. But in prison, if an elephant jumps in it, it’s a miracle. Yeah. I mean, if you see somebody that thinks that they’re ugly, they’re not ugly inside. So I found it very rewarding. And. They, I didn’t think they’d respond to retired law enforcement, but they responded well. Yeah. Because I spoke their language. Yeah. So it lasted 25 years, Gary. Yeah. I’ve got a couple of guys here in Kansas city that it’s not a spiritual kind of a thing, but I’ve become friends with them. And one guy told me, he’s fine. He said, he said, I can talk to you and you understand what I’m talking about. He said, all the rest of the people in my life anymore, cause he’s out of the life. He said, they don’t understand what I’m talking about. He said, I don’t have to get back into life, but I can talk to you and you know, you know, the people I’m talking about, you know what I’m talking about. I said, yeah, I do. [36:56] So obviously in case it was pretty obvious that we were, when we started to hear all these stories, when he told, told Jerry and I the story of the, the mobster who was crying because given the sneaker, that’s where the books, the title of the book comes from, art guys cry. But there’s one other guy in there that you should ask him about. And that is we had this, I don’t even know what to call him. He was really an oddball guy, a criminal in New York. He was a rich guy who owned a lot of, he ran art galleries and collected art galleries and collected paintings and got into the art world and was advising rich people as to what art they were buying. And it turns out he was basically a sadist. And he had another guy with him who he and the other guy wound up, he didn’t get charged with this, his partner did, wound up killing somebody. And when they found the body buried laying in the woods in upstate New York, he had one of those. [38:02] Sadomasochistic masks on him, his black mask. And this individual was one of Jimmy’s guys and he was a hardcore, am I right, Jimmy, in terms of not wanting help at all. He was just the kind of guy who, you know, if you help them, it was going to be a miracle. And he did. He helped them and it’s a miracle. And it’s worthwhile to tell the story about this guy. His name was Andrew Crispo. He’s no longer alive. And he was all over the newspapers here in New York City because of the whole masochistic, the sadomasochist activity that he was involved in. And that the picture of the dead body with that black mask on was all over the newspapers. And this guy, we have his picture in the book. If you see him, it’s butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth. He looked like the nicest guy in the world. Businessman. Turns out he was really one of the worst guys in terms of how he treated people. And Jimmy finally got to him. It was, to me, one of the more miraculous transformations when I heard all of the stories was this one because of what he was on the outside and what he became after Jimmy had him and he got out. He did not repeat his life the way that he was before here. Chris Bowe was a tough guy, right, Jimmy, in terms of getting to him? [39:28] Andrew, Sky Andre brought him down to one of our groups. And he asked me if he could bring his friend down the shirt. Everybody’s welcome, of course. And you’ve been around tough guys your whole life. Everybody’s a tough guy. You’re a tough guy. Everybody’s a tough guy. This guy had no muscle tone. He was like ashing in color. He looked like a raccoon. He had like rings around his eyes. And he was like creepy, creepy. So he came. And then he came for about seven years all the time. You get to know him, right? And he got grabbed for that sero-masochistic murder, but they couldn’t prove it. He got locked up, attempted kidnapping, the three-year-old daughter of the federal trustee. That’s why he was in jail now federal jail but he if you make a long story short he, doesn’t know who his parents are right and i’m not bleeding on i’m just telling you the way it is, he was dropped off at an orphanage as an infant and i was there for sentencing and this is what the judge said mr crispo he said before i sentence you i’d like you to know that i researched your history as a newborn you were dropped off in an orphanage right you remain there for 18 years where you were repeatedly beaten up and raped and. [40:47] But after leaving there, you managed to raise yourself up to get on the top of the art world, even owning a world-renowned art gallery in New York City. He said, for that, he said, I give you credit. However, then he banged him for seven years on the other thing. But he came down, and he had nothing spiritually. And if you sit with him and you talk with him, he kind of listened. He came around. [41:13] Like I told Mike, there was another guy. colombian guy his wife used to bring his daughter to work all the time so he came into the group a little late and he’s crying and then i said what’s the matter he said he said i’m not gonna see my daughter for two weeks i said well the comment told me once there’s a price for loving the price for loving is the absence of love you have to experience the love to miss it mr andrew who was sitting on our group andrew could you tell him a little bit about yourself oh yeah he said see the visiting room that you were in with your wife and the child, I’ve never been in there, and I’ll never be in there. And they said, there’s nothing worse than being alone, than being alone and no one cares. [41:56] And he came, and the rings went from his eyes, and then he became involved in all this other stuff. And he actually became a kind guy. He got involved with the church and things like that. And then he eventually went home. I’ll tell you the money he had. You need the money for an appeal? He sold one painting for $2.46 million. Oh wow the attorney’s fee that’s just one thing he had money but he had nothing yeah he had nothing and then when he went home he used to correspond you know and he’d write beautiful things thanks for the prayers thanks for your wife how’s your dog it’s not the same guy but he wasn’t like like what he’s tattooed tough guys he was like creepy tough and at the end when he left my opinion He was not. So if you can help somebody, it’s nice to help somebody if you can. Yeah. That’s interesting. That’s a true shift in the personality and to give somebody some spiritual hope in their life that they can, from what you’re describing to what he was to what he left when he left. That’s amazing. Exactly. That’s an amazing story. [43:01] There it is. Cry, The Journey of a Tough Cop from the Mean Streets to a Prison Ministry, Jimmy Dennedy and Michael Vecchione. Jimmy and Michael, I appreciate you guys so much for coming on and telling these stories. And guys, there’s a lot more stories just like this and better in the book. I’ll have links to get it down in the show notes. [43:22] And guys, you got anything last words you want to say? Anything you left out? [43:28] Gary, listen, keep getting those pension checks. [43:33] Yes, I will. I told my wife, Nora, put my feet in potting soil. If my toenail grows, that’s a sign of life. Keep getting that check. Really? [43:44] Thanks so much, Jimmy. All right. I just want to thank you. You’ve been terrific. And I hope that, I really mean this when I say this, people who get this book and read it or listen to it or however they want to get it into their, their mind, they’re going to love it because this guy’s story is just fantastic. And we touched on a few things, but we didn’t really touch, we didn’t get into the real meat that that’s there. And it’s, it was a, again, a pleasure to do this. So I’ve got one guy, I got one guy I talked to that has prison stories. I tell you what guys, there are so many great stories that come out of the penitentiary. It’s just, it’s amazing. I think part of these people don’t have much else current to talk about, so they tell stories from their past, and you get some great stories coming out of the prisons. Thanks a lot, guys. Gary. Thank you. God bless my friend.

Get ready for a thought-provoking new episode of SURFACE NOISE as we dive into one of the biggest questions facing vinyl collectors today: is the future of analog… digital? Kicking it off with the latest current events in the world of music and vinyl, we touch on: (1) The passing of a hip hop legend (2) VinylCon expands to NYC (Brooklyn) (3) Coachella takes place this weekend....is it any good? (4) Megadeth FINALLY reissues two of their fan favorite classics on vinyl in Countdown to Extinction and Youthanasia (5) Axpona takes place this weekend, with a few familiar faces talking records #cheapplug   After breaking down the latest headlines and weekly current events shaping the vinyl record collecting landscape, we turn our focus to the rapidly evolving intersection of technology and crate digging. Are record fairs and local shops still king—or are apps and online platforms becoming the new frontier for scoring rare and valuable finds? In this episode, we explore emerging tools that could redefine the hobby we spotlight the new Spinz app, developed by our own SN alumnus Jason “Spinz Vinyl” Elwood to discuss how it's designed to enhance the record collecting experience—from discovery to cataloging and beyond. Also joining the dais this 'sode is Joel from Static ATX Records to give his point of view as a record store owner/operator on the importance of function and user interface when it comes to selling your wares through those platforms. Whether you're a seasoned collector or just getting started, this episode tackles where the hobby is headed, what tools you should have on your radar, and how digital platforms might shape the next generation of vinyl culture.

Cruzar el Brooklyn Bridge en dirección a Manhattan a las 6 de la tarde, cuando el sol se va colando entre los rascacielos. Es el aquí y el ahora que llevo tatuado en cada uno de mis antebrazos. El momento y el lugar exactos. Las coordenadas que rigen mis destinos. El lugar al que me quiero dirigir, teniendo como único horizonte el skyline neoyorquino.

Pasear por el Brooklyn Bridge Park, el parque que se asoma a la desembocadura del East River, donde el río se entremezcla con el océano, es uno de mis mayores placeres: por el cóctel que mezclan en el aire el agua dulce y el agua salada; y por las vistas desde la Estatua de la Libertad, pasando por el Downtown hasta el Puente de Brooklyn.

Meet my pisane from NYC: Brooklyn to Staten Island, NYCDOE HS teacher & stand-up comic Gaspare Randazzo. Gaspare is on fire these days, putting out tons of incredibly funny content, selling out shows across the US and just starred in the Netflix special The Trust. Leader, laughing, teaching and more. Join us LIVE on Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 at 4:20 EST on FB, Inst & X. Follow Gaspare at StandUpRandazzo & GaspareRandazzo.com This podcast is sponsored by IXL Personalized Learning. IXL is used by more than 1 million teachers each day. It is also the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K-12. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/ELBIXL Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5803503172321280

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I truly believe what Jason is doing is one of the most important aspects of successfully selling real estate. Most sellers leave the staging out of the sales equation due to their brokers inexperience, gross cost, time, logistics, & stress.  While some sellers who own gold coast land may be able to skip the process, the majority of those who strive to achieve top-end pricing will need to go through the staging process to appeal to the masses.  This episode describes the failures of the open market as is, to the eventual successes once Jason took over the listing.  My industry colleague of 14+ years, Mr. Jason Saft joins the Real Takk Pod to discuss his career transformation from brokerage to one of the top interior designers in the United States.   Jason is one of the founding members & agents of Compass, where he was first asked to work on the management team overseeing the older business model of Compass, aka Urban Compass.  Fast forward to the present time, Jason is the creator & founder of Staged To Sell Home, a leading home boutique staging firm in NYC & Brooklyn.   In 2020 Jason Saft & Staged To Sell Home was awarded Best Luxury Home Stager & Best Occupied Home Stager in The United States by R.E.S.A (Real Estate Staging Association).    Please follow Jason at the links below:  URL:  https://www.stagedtosellhome.com/ Wall Street Journal Article  New York Times  IG: @StagedToSellHome  & @JasonSaft          

In the episode "A.I. Art & Its Implications Part 2: A Chat with NYC Artist G. Romero On the Coming Disruption (S5, E3)," I had the pleasure of interviewing NYC Brooklyn artist G. Romero about all coming changes regarding A.I. --especially the A.I. art revolution and the possible ensuing human art renaissance. After reviewing what these A.I. generative art systems are accomplishing, we take a deeper look at the role of the artist in society, and what we as artists are being called upon to currently do in the face of being the first industry disrupted by A.I.'s mighty takeover. Artists have traditionally throughout time in all societies been the free thinkers and have defined what art is. Can we still hold onto that role? Bio:G.Romero is an indigenous multidisciplinary creator, educator, underground curator and storyteller. His work ranges from painting, illustration, comix, motion, performance, installation and sound. Central to his work are figuration, storytelling and narrative.Check out his website at: www.gromerooo.comInsta: @graphik.magik @cesar2morro#aiart #humansoverrobots #openai #generativeai #startrek #DaveMcKean #renaissance #conceptart #stabilityai #Stablediffusion #dalle2 #midjourneyThe following GoFundMe campaign by the Concept Art Association Artist Protection is referred to in the show--consider donating to the fundraiser: https://gofund.me/2df3dc07Read about the class action here: https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/Don't forget to subscribe to the Not As Crazy As You Think YouTube channel @SicilianoJenAnd please visit my website at: www.jengaitasiciliano.comConnect: Instagram: @ jengaitaLinkedIn: @ jensicilianoTwitter: @ jsiciliano

Special Edition @rav_shalom__arush translated by #ravdayanelgrod hosted by @Eli Unity Goldsmith MC of our Emuna Tour - Emunalive.com link on BIO & IG Stories - partner now. For meeting #ravshalomarush DM @unityinspiresprojects #unitybookings - Email - EliGoldsmith@Breslev.co.il @Breslev English Tour Updates on #Emunatour2022 @RavShalomArush #EmunaisourFuture #blessings #NYC #Brooklyn #gedalefenster #mdy #safra #rabbielimansour #rabbimoshemalka #rabbijoeyhaber #Monsey #nissimblack #vip #statenIsland #5towns #teaneck #NewJersey #chazaq #movingminute #losangeles #weekly #live #classes #Thankyou #Hashem #eligoldsmith #inspired --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/breslevisrael/support

Simchat Beit HaShoeva Hilula of #rebbenachman zya hosted by Rav Shalom Arush shlita - Chut Shel Chessed Ushpizin of Moshe Rabbeinu is the Hilula - Yahrzeit of Rebbe Nachman of Breslev :) - share the joyous light…https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cjnh9mRDZpP/?igshid=N2Y5NTAwYTk= Sukkot Shelter Of Emuna & TOUR 2022 - IMPORTANT UPDATES! Click & Share a live Sukkah Special Class - https://fb.watch/g61oJiotYW/ So excited #ravshalomarush - הרב שלום ארוש, #gedalefenster & #rabbimoshemalka... Info on the flier to join us for such a special night of #Inspiration... https://www.instagram.com/p/CjfwlVhNNi-/?igshid=N2Y5NTAwYTk= @unityinspiresprojects Thank you @ijk.nyc, @tobi_rubinstein & all the wonderful people beyond words... https://www.breslev.co.il/emuna-is-our-future.html Emuna Tour 2022 Let's Go Together!!! Meet and be Blessed by #RavShalomArush in person -Join Us for the Climax of Sharing #EmunaGlobal Together! #tyhashem November 4th - 14th NYC - Brooklyn & Monsey - For tour info & arranging meetings, contact @Eli Unity Goldsmith inspired at Eli.Goldsmith@breslev.co.il. Join the tour online at emunalive.com. Rav Dayan Elgrod will be available to translate to English. Rav Arush's books in English will be available, or you can order them from Breslev Store - https://breslev.com/product-category/books/rabbi-arushs-english-books/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/breslevisrael/support

Double Emuna Tuesday Class #88 Special Guest Rabbi Harry Rozenberg - Hosted @ Eli Breslev Goldsmith! Check out RabbiHarry.com - Double Emuna Tuesday Going live @ Eliezer Goldsmith together with Light of Infinite Sept 20th at 11 30 pm Israel time - Session Title & Description: United Souls of Light – tools to bringing the Infinite Light to Everyday life and living with purposeful joy… RSVP here - https://lightofinfinite.com/presenter/eli-goldsmith/ together with Emunalive.com... #infinitelight #emunaglobal #unitedsouls #unitybookings Unity Inspires Projects The first session was at 11 30 am here https://www.facebook.com/breslev.english & IG Live! Emuna Podcast - https://anchor.fm/breslevIsrael/ The Official Version coming soon - Also, Partner with our Emuna Tour 2022 - Let's Go!!! Meet and be Blessed by Rav Shalom Arush in person -Join Us for the Climax of Sharing #EmunaGlobal Together! #tyhashem November 4th - 14th NYC - Brooklyn & Monsey - For tour info & arranging meetings, contact Eli Breslev Goldsmith at Eli.Goldsmith@breslev.co.il. Join the tour online at emunalive.com. Rav Dayan Elgrod will be available to translate to English. Rav Arush's books in English will be available, or you can order them from Breslev Store - https://breslev.com/product-category/books/rabbi-arushs-english-books/. Yes - United Souls - Extracts from New Book TBA - by #EliGoldsmith - Part 21 - Great Choices in Soulful Living! (subscribe now) https://eligoldsmith.substack.com/p/united-souls-extracts-from-new-book-5ec?sd=pf – Share your #UnityFlow – #UnityBookings – #unityinspiresprojects…

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IT'S WOMEN'S MONTH!!! Here at BBP, we want to give a BIG shoutout to all the women in the world. Giving you virtual flowers because you are loved and respected here at Brooklyn Basement, especially you, E!  This pod is dedicated to the women who taught us valuable lessons. From teaching us self care to boost our confidence, to demonstrating that hard work pays off- not the ones that used PPP loans. See ya'll in a couple of years! Chill and laugh with us at the basement.Brooklyn Stamp of Approval (BSOA) is given to Flatbush Oysters Co. They serve modern Panamanian-style seafood at private events and pop-ups around the Northeast regions including NYC- Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and  Martha's Vineyard. Lidia Leudo is the shucking queen that brings freshly caught oysters straight to yo' mouth. Check'em out on @flatbushoysterco on IG. 

I just realized that I’m on a streak of non-Mainers for a few weeks here, last week was Nancy Wind from Mass, this week I’m talking to the absolutely delightful Melissa Goodwin from NYC (Brooklyn to be exact).Melissa is a New York hiking and camping guide and the "girl" behind Girl Gotta Hike (the company), and Girl Gotta Hike, The Podcast. As her website so succinctly puts it, “Girl Gotta Hike encourages women of all ages to get away from the grind and connect with the ground online, on-air and through guided hikes and backpacking trips in and around NYC. It’s your resource for information, encouragement, camaraderie and confidence that will help you reach your personal summits.”Melissa’s fantastic podcast was a major source of inspiration when the idea for Guides Gone Wild started knocking around in my pandemic brain. I found the contrast between her amazing thru-hiking resume and the accessible, beginner-friendly hikes and backpacking trips that predominate on the Girl Gotta Hike adventure schedule totally intriguing, and I knew I had to have her on the podcast. I kept trying to set up times to meet or talk, and Melissa kept swiping left, but as you’ve probably figured out by now, I can be a little persistent in my fangirl stalking...If you're up for fangirling too, check out Girl Gotta Hike on the web, Instagram, and of course, don't forget to subscribe to Girl Gotta Hike, The Podcast (and make sure to listen to my recent favorite episode). I'd be remiss if I didn't also recommend that you check out Melissa's gorgeous photography on her '9-to-5' site, MelissaGoodwinPhotography.com.Other links from our chat:The Gunks (New Palz, NY)Minnewaska State ParkGirl Gotta Hike, The Podcast - Episode 4 with Christi HolmesGuides Gone Wild Podcast - Christi Holmes (Episode 12)Catskills 3500 ClubJohn Muir Trail - Tuolumne MeadowsHarriman State ParkNY/NJ Trail ConferenceDirty Girl GaitersFinally - time to plan those summer adventures! Check out Evans Notch Lodge, on the banks of the Wild River on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest, for your Maine group getaway!

Simona Sacrifizi oramai la conoscete bene, è stata ospite della prima stagione del podcast ben due volte, raccontandoci nell'episodio n. 2 itinerari meno conosciuti degli Stati Uniti, e nell'episodio n. 10 il suo viaggio in Colombia (se non li avete ascoltati vi consiglio assolutamente di recuperarli). Simona è una travel writer, non perdetevi il suo blog simonasacri.com, e una grandissima esperta di Stati Uniti, Paese che ha visitato in lungo e in largo decine e decine di volte. Come decine di volte è stata a New York, e così, come ci aveva promesso nell'episodio n. 2 è tornata a parlarci della Grande Mela. Con emozione ecco a voi un nuovo episodio di racconti di Viaggio, il primo dopo un'assenza di di diversi mesi, il primo della seconda stagione de podcast e il primo del 2021L'episodio numero 26 vi porta, grazie a Simona Sacrifizi, negli Stati Uniti alla scoperta dei 4 distretti, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island, che insieme a Manhattan, costituiscono New York City.Blog di Simona www.simonasacri.com Articoli dedicato ai borough di NYC: • Brooklyn https://www.simonasacri.com/tag/brooklyn• Queens https://www.simonasacri.com/tag/queens• The Bronx https://www.simonasacri.com/tag/bronx• Staten Island https://www.simonasacri.com/america/stati-uniti/new-york/cosa-vedere-astaten-island-itinerario.php• Lower Manhattan https://www.simonasacri.com/tag/lower-manhattan• New York City https://www.simonasacri.com/category/america/stati-uniti/new-york

Living In New York Isn't Free And It Damn Sure Isn't Easy , Take This Journey With Bully As He Shares Some Of His Experiences Of Living In The Concrete Jungle. FOLLOW ME ON Instagram @BullyTalkPodcast AND ON Twitter @PodcastBully ARE YOU APART OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH COMMITTEE ? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bearded-bully/message

This week we had Becca Stevens on the podcast! Becca is a vocalist/musician based in NYC (Brooklyn). We had a great episode and talked about the benefits of collaborating with other musicians, teaching songwriting, and much more. We hope you enjoy this episode and thanks for listening! Links to follow us: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mixedreviewspod/ Redbubble shop: https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Mixed-Reviews-Logo-by-blakeroyal/47384533.EJUG5 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mixed-reviews/id1511590132 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5bFBmL398uAu0ZkruNE9LV Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xY2Q2ZWE5MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw Links to follow Becca: Website: https://www.beccastevens.com/ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/beccastevensbsb/ Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Sh2X6e3JerGnyEF0vDgbk?si=Kau5wR_AQzK1qj6-Zj1Z5g

Professional musician, composer, arranger, and overall upstanding citizen, Stuart Bogie (@stuartbogie), is this week's guest. Since the early 2000's Mr Bogie has been a mainstay in the Brooklyn music scene. His full discography is too lengthy to mention in full, but he's recorded or played live with everyone from Antibalas to TV On The Radio to Arcade Fire.  Most recently, he contributed to new releases by Hamilton Leithauser and Run The Jewels. We met Mr Bogie down in New Orleans as part of the Krewe Du Kanaval festivities for Mardi Gras. It was a different time and place. Dancing, drinking, hanging with new and old friends, live music. February 2020, pre-COVID.  A friendship was made that allowed for this great convo to take place. We start off with our memories from that amazing weekend and also discuss: Stu's musical education, coming up in the NYC & Brooklyn music scene of the 2000's, working at Niagara, Fela Kuti, his contributions to some of NYC's most seminal bands, post show rituals, his daily Clarinet Concerts, creativity during COVID, and how the pandemic has brought to light economic realities of being a professional musician. If you're a music nerd you're gonna love this convo!

Saving Two Buildings in Brooklyn On this week’s program we will explore efforts to gain landmark status for buildings based on culture and history, and two buildings in particular, both in Brooklyn.My guests will be Karen Karbiener, Clinical Professor at New York University and Walt Whitman Scholar, and Raul Rothblatt, Historic Preservation Advocate and co-founder of Five Boroughs to Freedom.‍ Segment 1 Jeff begins the show by introducing his guests, Karen Karbiener and Raul Rothblatt. Both guests are making efforts to preserve buildings 99 Ryerson St., a pivotal residence for illustrious American poet, Walt Whitman; and 227 Duffield St, both. in Brooklyn. Karen describes what intrigued her about Walt Whitman’s work, what set him apart from other writers, and what led her to preserving his residence. Raul talks about how he got engaged in community affairs working with a NY state senator. Following this, Karen delves into how Whitman came to live in 99 Ryerson St.  Segment 2 Karen and Raul talk about how Whitman’s sexual orientation and his activism influenced his writing. Karen then dives into the kind of influence the first publication of Leaves of Grass had in American literature at the time. They continue to discuss Whitman’s activism when the poet moved to Washington, and how his activism and poetry was a way to accept all kinds of people. Segment 3 Raul describes some of the political and cultural highlights surrounding the NYC/Brooklyn landscape around 1848, and some of the structures and institutions that arose including abolitionists and black community churches. Following, Raul talks about the supposed abolitionist activity that may have happened on 227 Duffield St. He does note, however, that Duffield St. as a whole observed abolitionist movement.  Segment 4 Karen explains why 99 Ryerson St.’s landmark status was initially turned down by the landmark preservation commission. Raul then describes why 227 Duffield St.’s landmark status application was turned down initially as well. Both guests cite architectural design, the amount of time spent in historical relevance, how the building stands currently, etc. The show ends with Karen and Raul sharing how listeners can get involved with landmark preservation and learn more about their respective organizations.

Breve guida generale sulla metropoli per eccellenza, la città che non dorme mai: New York!In questo video descriviamo le attrazioni principali dei 3 distratte: Bronx Queens e BrooklingCosa vedere in un primo viaggio a New York: tutti i consigli dell'agente di viaggio.Il punto di vista dell'agente di viaggio Gaetano, della Progetto Vacanze.Per richieste e maggiori informazioni:whatsapp: +390805042034mail: carlnino@hotmail.itSeguici sui social:Facebook: http://rdrct.cc/go/spfbYoutube: http://rdrct.cc/go/spytInstagram: http://rdrct.cc/go/spigPodcast: http://rdrct.cc/go/sppd

Two guys from NYC Brooklyn who wants to record our thoughts at the time on random subjects.

Formed in Boston in 2010. Bill had been primarily playing drums in his friends' bands for years since his art school days (School of The Museum of Fine Art, Boston) but decided to start something brand new after writing a bunch of songs, learning to play the guitar and finding his voice.He decided to perform as a solo act for a year at first to gauge the response to his material. After repeated warm and positive responses to his solo shows he kept hearing from people that he should "get a band together". So the decision was made. Bill Dwyer Band has been fortunate to have included many amazing people and musicians in it's ranks through the last several years.Current members include Cullen Corley (Drums), Charles Murphy (Bass), Joe Diaz (fill-in Bass) and Attis Jerrell Clopton (fill-in Drums). BDB is a 3 piece band with heart as its main drive. The band released it's first full-length, 15-song album "Renaissance After Sundown" (iTunes, cdbaby, Amazon, Google) in the Summer of 2015. They completed their first tour of Europe in September 2016 with 10 shows in 14 days with stops in Germany, Lille and Paris France, Amsterdam and London. The band had a BLAST as the shows were ELECTRIC and they were warmly welcomed by audiences everywhere they performed.BDB performs throughout New England, NYC/Brooklyn and the East Coast for now. Stay tuned!

Formed in Boston in 2010. Bill had been primarily playing drums in his friends' bands for years since his art school days (School of The Museum of Fine Art, Boston) but decided to start something brand new after writing a bunch of songs, learning to play the guitar and finding his voice. He decided to perform as a solo act for a year at first to gauge the response to his material. After repeated warm and positive responses to his solo shows he kept hearing from people that he should "get a band together". So the decision was made. Bill Dwyer Band has been fortunate to have included many amazing people and musicians in it's ranks through the last several years. Current members include Cullen Corley (Drums), Charles Murphy (Bass), Joe Diaz (fill-in Bass) and Attis Jerrell Clopton (fill-in Drums). BDB is a 3 piece band with heart as its main drive. The band released it's first full-length, 15-song album "Renaissance After Sundown" (iTunes, cdbaby, Amazon, Google) in the Summer of 2015. They completed their first tour of Europe in September 2016 with 10 shows in 14 days with stops in Germany, Lille and Paris France, Amsterdam and London. The band had a BLAST as the shows were ELECTRIC and they were warmly welcomed by audiences everywhere they performed. BDB performs throughout New England, NYC/Brooklyn and the East Coast for now. Stay tuned! 

We’re looking back at sessions of BTR Live Studio from 2019, so far, that have featured artists from the NYC/Brooklyn area. 00:00 - // StereoactiveNYC / BTRtoday ID // 01:06 - // Welcome // 04:50 - “Happy At Your Gate” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Erika Spring 08:26 - “6 More Weeks” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Erika Spring 11:25 - “Es Is” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Zenizen 14:12 - “Follow The Leader” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Zenizen 19:09 - “NE1” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Bedstudy 24:36 - “Ø (Arms Away)” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Bedstudy 28:37 - “West Coast” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Bel Aviv 32:27 - “Sun & Air” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Bel Aviv 36:00 - “Mike Meyers” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Van Goose 41:27 - “On My Hand” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Van Goose 48:42 - “Chamomile” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Devon Church 52:23 - “Curses” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Devon Church 56:15 - // Mic Break // 57:44 - “Too Little Too Late” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Funcrusher 62:45 - “White Ghost” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Funcrusher 64:55 - “Bitch Cannon” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Plaid Dracula 72:48 - “(I’m Not Gonna Do) Anything For You” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Shelter Dogs 76:14 - “Someday Is Starting Now” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Shelter Dogs 79:54 - “Why Don’t You Do It?” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - The Sharp Shadows 83:24 - “Push Push Push” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - The Sharp Shadows 85:20 - “Loose Ends” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Glass Slipper 87:58 - “Current Girlfriend” (BTR Live Studio, 2019) - Glass Slipper 90:11 - // Outro + Disclaimer // 91:36 - // End Transmission //

The Planes are playing songs from their album, Wax Diamond, at El Cortez on 6/27, with the lineup that played on the album. Then Kanine Records is throwing a summer party on the rooftop at Our Wicked Lady on 6/29, featuring Weeping Icon. Lina Tullgren is also playing 6/29 over at Alphaville. And Maneka is at Elsewhere’s Zone One on July 5th. Hear all those artists here, along with some local NYC/Brooklyn musicians who’ve been in for sessions of BTR Live Studio recently: Kino Kimino, Nadine, Aisha Badru, and Oracle Room. 00:00 - // StereoactiveNYC / BTRtoday ID // 00:40 - // Welcome / The Planes play ‘Wax Diamond’ // 03:14 - “Stick Around” - The Planes 05:45 - “College Crush” - The Planes 09:59 - “ATMs” - The Planes 12:48 - // Kanine Records + OWL Rooftop / Alphaville / Elsewhere // 15:02 - “germs” - Weeping Icon 18:15 - “7” - Weeping Icon 22:31 - “Asktell” - Lina Tullgren 28:25 - “Tiger Baby” (feat. Jordyn Blakely) - Maneka 30:26 - “Dracula” (feat. Katie Capri) - Maneka 34:33 - // Recent NYC-based Live Studio artists // 40:31 - “Passion” (BTR Live Studio, 2018) - Kino Kimino 43:57 - “Pews” (BTR Live Studio, 2018) - Nadine 48:29 - “Fossil Fuels” (BTR Live Studio, 2018) - Aisha Badru 50:50 - “Diamond” (BTR Live Studio, 2018) - Oracle Room 55:50 - // Outro + Disclaimer // 57:14 - // Finish.

Max Goransson is a veteran of the local NYC/Brooklyn music scene and played in numerous bands over his years in the city before moving to Massachusetts a few years back. He’ll be back in town in mid-April for a reunion of Quiet Loudly, the group he started with his old buddy Sal Garro and for which he provided much of the songwriting and sonic direction. Max stopped by for a discussion of his musical history, songwriting, and especially the band he and Sal began, which eventually included Tony Aquilino, John Weingarten, and Jonathan Pilkington Kahnt. 00:00 - // StereoactiveNYC / BTRtoday ID // 00:40 - // Welcome // 04:11 - “My Trusted Betrayer” (Serious Business, 2012) - Quiet Loudly 07:28 - // Introducing Max Goransson + Quiet Loudly // 08:53 - // Learning to play music... // 15:53 - // Max Goransson, aka Fallout Boy // 17:24 - // Emerson College // 21:56 - // Ringleader? // 22:59 - // Meeting Sal Garro / musical influences // 36:34 - // Max has a Rocket From The Crypt tattoo // 37:53 - // Max and Sal form Pinocchio Syndrome / move to Chicago // 42:21 - // Move to NYC / Quiet Loudly 1.0 / Meeting GunFight! and Tony Aquilino // 46:42 - // Burying the 1st record / working on ‘Soulgazer’ // 52:58 - “Church of Mud” - Quiet Loudly 58:07 - // About “Church of Mud” // 69:56 - // The Governors / Gabe Rothchild // 79:13 - “Small” - The Governors 85:05 - // More about The Governors // 91:07 - // 2nd Quiet Loudly album: “Go Into The Light Smiling” / meeting John Weingarten // 95:43 - // Kickstarter / Jeff Berner / Amy Everard 100:33 - “It’s Not The End Of The World (If It’s The End Of The World)” - Quiet Loudly 106:21 - // About the song / What’s different from 1st album? // 110:05 - // Touching on Clouder and Black Salad / Steve Spinella // 112:38 - // What would Quiet Loudly be like now? What is Max working on these days? // 122:40 - // JPK! / Reunion show details // 125:27 - // Outro + Disclaimer // 127:27 - // Finish.

The New Restaurants is a Brooklyn-based band led by longtime friends Beau Alessi and Doug Schrashun, two veterans of the NYC/Brooklyn music scene -- perhaps best known for their involvement in MiniBoone and Robot Princess. With a new website (as opposed to an album) available now on Bandcamp and soon at forgetabout.institute, the duo talk about their history together (which includes writing NBA All Star Jams eleven years running) as well as their unique way of writing music for this latest project. Also in the episode, we have music by c’yotes, Metz, and Deerhoof. 00:00 - // StereoactiveNYC / BTRtoday ID // 00:16 - // Welcome // 00:57 - // c’yotes // 03:41 - “Thievery” - c’yotes 05:39 - “Nothing Left” - c’yotes 08:57 - // Beau Alessi + Doug Schrashun (The New Restaurants) 14:29 - // Interview begins // 15:19 - // How did they get to know each other? // 18:00 - // NBA All Star Jams // 21:13 - // Humor in music and finding a balance // 26:51 - // The aesthetic or tone of The New Restaurants / satire? // 30:24 - // Next steps / live version of the band // 32:04 - // Facebook // 33:24 - // Writing process // 36:21 - // Doug songs vs. Beau songs / collaboration // 38:45 - // About “Celebrity Cruises" // 39:23 - “Celebrity Cruises” - The New Restaurants 42:27 - // More about writing // 44:43 - // Doug song? // 47:35 - “Tropical Contact High” - The New Restaurants 50:42 - // Translating recorded versions of songs to live versions // 53:19 - // Trying to avoid the comparison game / influences, etc. // 60:08 - // What’s next for The New Restaurants? // 63:03 - “Color Me Vegan” - The New Restaurants 65:31 - // Mic Break // 67:38 - “Get Off” (Serious Business, 2012) - Metz 69:45 - “Headache” (Serious Business, 2012) - Metz 71:46 - “I Will Spite Survive” (feat. Jenn Wasner) - Deerhoof 75:13 - // Mic Break // 77:54 - // Outro + Disclaimer // 79:16 - // Finish.

Guests discuss "emerging" markets: areas, newly populated by those leaving locations because of increased costs: leaving Manhattan-parts of NYC- Brooklyn for Bushwick, Ridgewood, Coney Island, East New York, LIC, Staten Island. New areas-new challenges.

Bringing you our second minicast! We cover this awesome annual natural hair event here in NYC (Brooklyn to be exact) Send us quizes, links, questions and more that you think would make a great minicast and there is a good chance your suggestion will make be selected.Email: wecomefromqueens@gmail.comWebsite: www.wecomefromqueens.comTwitter/IG: @WecomefromqnsHashtags: #wcfq #wecomeformqueens

Bryan Kearney LIVE @ Kearnage NYC, Brooklyn Warehouse, New York City, 24/09/16 Southside Spinners - Luvstruck (Timo Maas Remix) I.D - I.D The Noble Six - Cocoon (Luna Mix / Bryan Kearney Edit) I.D - I.D I.D - I.D I.D - I.D The Horrorist - One Night In NYC (Bryan Kearney Edit) I.D - I.D Rachael Starr - Till There Was You (Key4050 Remix) Bryan Kearney pres. Karney - Beg Your Pardon Xerox & Illumination - Battleship (Vertical Mode Remix) I.D - I.D I.D - I.D Major 7 & Oxygen - Hypnotic Robotic (Bryan Kearney Edit) I.D - I.D Paul Van Dyk - Tell Me Why (Vandit Mix) Greg Downey feat. Bo Bruce - Come To Me John O'Callaghan - The Forging Of Steel Bryan Kearney & Will Atkinson - The Game Changer (Standerwick Remix) Will Rees - Incipient I.D - I.D Rank 1 vs John O'Callaghan vs Nalin & Kane - Out Of BeachWave (Bryan Kearney's Cream Ibiza Edit) Vini Vici & Bryan Kearney - We Are The Creators (I.D Remix) Sean Tyas - Swimming In Acid (Bryan Kearney Edit) Interactive Noise - Daring MIssion (Bryan Kearney Edit) Aly & Fila feat. Rafif - Mother Nature (Bryan Kearney Remix) Adam Ellis - Agent Orange Sam Jones - Let Loose Sam Jones & Will Rees - Oversight (BA Edit) Bryan Kearney & Christina Novelli - By My Side Sean Tyas - Turbo Snatam Kaur - Earth Prayer (Interstellar vs Bryan Kearney Remix) Adam Ellis - Napalm Poet (Bryan Kearney Edit) Paul Van Dyk vs Delerium - Silence In Berlin (Bryan Kearney Edit) The Noble Six - Train Of Thought Faruk Sanbanci vs Daniel Kandi vs Above & Beyond - Good For Himalaya (Bryan Kearney Mash-Up) Stoneface & Terminal - Super Nature (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix) Will Atkinson - Numb The Pain Nu NRG - Freefall ATB - Ecstasy (Morten Granau Remix) Patrick Cassidy feat. Síbeal - Mise Éire (Bryan Kearney's Uprising Mix) Ludovico Einaudi - Two Trees (John O'Callaghan Remix) Aly & Fila vs The Thrillseekers - The Last Es Vedra (Bryan Kearney Mash-Up) Bryan Kearney - Te Amo Chicane - Saltwater (Disco Citizens vs Tomski Remix)