Rather than pasting my recently published work here, I've started an Authory portfolio page to collect articles as they appear on the web. You'll also find collections of my favorite interviews and investigative pieces as well as a [very limited] sampling of client work intended for public distribution.
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Originally published September 25, 2018, in West Side Rag Neil Harris, Jr. in a 2010 family photo Back in April of 2017, I wrote about a young homeless man who was found dead under the West Side Highway near 71st Street in Riverside Park. Many community members mourned the quiet man in the maroon hoodie, a park fixture known to some as “Stephen.” A memorial plaque soon appeared on “Stephen’s bench” near 75th and Riverside. But his identity remained a mystery, a John Doe, buried months later on Hart Island