Day: May 2, 2019

Police car lights seen through a broken window
76th Precinct

The Monster That Surrounds You: Tyjuan Hill, Ronald Williams, and the 76th Precinct

In 2005, the HarperCollins imprint William Morrow published the memoir No Lights, No Sirens: The Corruption and Redemption of an Inner City Cop by Robert Cea, a former New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer. The book chronicled Cea’s days in uniform in the stygian “Badlands” patrolled by the 76th Precinct in the 1980s and ‘90s. According to Cea, “the […]

Arts, Sunset Park, Theater

TARGET MARGIN THEATER’S ‘MARJANA AND THE FORTY THIEVES’ IS CHARMING AT ITS BEST, BUT DISJOINTED.

“Marjana and The Forty Thieves” is a modern retelling from the minds of the Target Margin Theater Company of The One Thousand and One Nights, directed by David Herskovits. Broken into three distinct acts, each with a unique style of storytelling, the play enthusiastically immerses the viewer in a tactile world of storytale. The collaborative, unbridled energy and years of […]