David Gauvey Herbert
David Gauvey Herbert writes about crime, subcultures, and general weirdness for New York Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, and The New Yorker. He is also a two-time grant winner from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. He lives in Brooklyn.
Bad Dojo: Tiger Schulmann Didn’t Get to Be America’s No. 1 Karate Kingpin Without Busting a Few Faces
Former senseis and business partners accuse Schulmann of building his $35-million-a-year martial-arts empire with Mafia tactics. What, you expect him to apologize?
The Cult Leader of Staten Island
When he was 19 Jeff Gross fell under the sway of the charismatic, fifty-one-year-old Mildred Gordon and spent more than half his life in an "intentional community" they built together. It turned out to be much, much more than that.
Inside Youth Baseball's Most Notorious Dad-On-Dad Rivalry
On the Long Island Inferno, two fathers, both with complicated pasts, took it all too far. Neither man was ever the same.
The Ballad of Ron and Dorinda
In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.