Peter Kramer

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 pass right by...

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...

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...