Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to imagine Nushawn Williams, 21, as the sort of young man in possession of a facility with the opposite sex. However, in the desolate housing projects of Brooklyn's Crown Heights section and the depressed pockets of rural Chautauqua County in western New York, the crack dealer collected female admirers with displays of bravado, promises of jewelry, a willingness to steal a coat if a girl found herself too cold. "It don't take much, you know. These girls don't have much," explains Lakeesha Moore, a former New York City neighbor of Williams'. "He had money...
...serene, Jamestown is a small, beaten-down city where for years drugs and homelessness have made their mark. Authorities say Williams moved to the community in 1995 to see family and allegedly to sell narcotics. A self-proclaimed member of the Bloods street gang and widely disliked by his Brooklyn neighbors, Williams has eight arrests and three convictions behind him. In Jamestown he seems to have used his urban of-the-street credibility to impress the disaffected girls he picked up in local parks. Chautauqua investigators believe in some cases Williams may have bartered drugs for sex. (Williams' grandmother Eleanor...
...more honest characters in Jacobs' conflation of fact and fiction. In effect, the legendary showman leads a kind of geek chorus of real and imagined religious zealots, yellow journalists, gangsters and robber barons. The Wall Street rogue Jay Gould actually sells someone a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge. A Jewish peddler leaves the fold to become a dowser for parched anti-Semites. Hull changes the name of a new cigar from Pickaninny to Uncle Tom after hearing that black smokers might be offended...
When he was 13, Barry Manilow got a new stepfather, an Irish-American truck driver who brought with him a stack of Broadway albums. The Brooklyn teenager listened over and over again to musicals like The King and I and Kismet, and since he couldn't afford a Broadway ticket, he dreamed up his own narratives to go with the songs. Says Manilow: "I think my story was better than the Fiddler on the Roof I eventually...
...When Italians get hungry, they complain, and they were loud and obnoxious in their heavy Brooklyn accents," she says...