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Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York City's Lower East Side
Michael Codella
Hardcover. Thomas Dunne Book 2010-11-09.
ISBN 9780312592486
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Publisher description
Alphabet City in 1988 burned with heroin, radicalism, and anti-police sentiment. Shining a cool light into the parallel forces, struggles, and stories that transformed the neighborhood--starting with the police work that transformed Detective Sergeant Mike Codella--ALPHAVILLE resurrects the vicious streets of the East Village, the epicenter of the New York drug scene. Codella worked as a plainclothes narcotics cop in the most high-voltage neighborhood in Manhattan, earning the nickname "Rambo" from the local dealers. With a $50, 000 bounty on his head, Codella and his partner Gio made it their mission to put away Davie Blue Eyes--a stone cold murderer and the head of Alphabet City's heroin supply chain. Codella knew that the further east you got from the relative safety of 5th Avenue, Washington Square Park and NYU, the deeper the sea of human misery, greed, addiction, violence and all the things that come with an illegal retail drug trade run wild. But through all the beatings and gunshots, the footchases and close calls, Codella and Gio both saw Alphabet City the same way: worth saving
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