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The story of the girl who lived, has been untold, until now
This story won the 2024 National Headliner Award and the 2023 Distinguished Feature Writing Award for Excellence from the New York News Publishers Association. On Nodine Hill, firefighters faced a terrifying challenge and a desperate family rushed their baby from the flames. But the only signs of what happened are the things you don't see. Published: March 7, 2023 There is a hole on Nodine Hill. This gritty neighborhood in southwest Yonkers doesn’t invite strolling; you can
Peter Kramer
1 day ago16 min read


Olympic dream, an adoptee's fantasy
The boy with a name he hates stares into the swimming pool at the lane he's been assigned. Take your mark. The 6-year-old bends, clutches...
Peter Kramer
Nov 10, 202112 min read


The Man Who Turned to Stone
Sometimes the boy needed to get away, from family and the bustle of a busy house. And so he’d set out, into the sugar maples and birches...
Peter Kramer
Nov 10, 202112 min read


25 years ago: A crash, a flash, a missile in the night
Those who survived it recall a deadly I-287 propane tank blast that turned the midnight sky orange and sent a 43-foot tank hurtling into...
Peter Kramer
Jul 21, 201913 min read


How did she do it? 50 years ago, my widowed mom took her 9 kids through Europe.
As summer comes to an unofficial close with Labor Day, and beach towels and beach books give way to first-day-of-school outfits and...
Peter Kramer
Jan 29, 20193 min read


‘Our Town’ in Sing Sing
Seventy-five years ago, Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” first spun its simple spell on Broadway. Three generations later, the story of daily...
Peter Kramer
Jan 21, 201913 min read
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