Bruce Bennett is a writer whose work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the erstwhile New York Sun, among other publications; a guitar player who has performed and recorded with the A-Bones, Hasil Adkins, Action Swingers, Yo La Tengo, and Andre Williams, to name a few; and the writer and director of two award-winning short films, both aired on the Independent Film Channel. A Manhattan native and resident of the Lower East Side for twenty years—including the period covered in Alphaville—he now lives and works in Brooklyn.
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A raw, gritty memoir—part true-life cop thriller, part unputdownable history of a storied time and place—that will grip you by the throat until the explosive end In 1988, Alphabet City burned with heroin, radicalism, and antipolice sentimen... SEE MORE