When Dave Greenberg decided to run to be a NY State assemblyman, I took the unpaid job of being his press assistant. Writing up releases...

The brief orientation was basically, “Everyone is here to have fun, be polite, be respectful, and don’t let any trouble happen.” I was...

At Courier-Life I met two interesting subjects who would change my life. One was Dave Greenberg, aka Batman, a hero cop who helped...

So I went from being a photojournalist to a reporter who took pictures. This sometimes stood me in good stead, with a presumption that...

I applied for a freelance job with Courier-Life, a syndicate of four local newspapers: Kings Courier; Flatbush Life; Canarsie Digest; and...

My first by-lines were in the James Madison Moment, a high school newspaper in a typical public school in Brooklyn, New York. In my...

Red Diamond: Private Eye book jacket, 1983 These are the stories that my family and friends have heard, the high points and low points...