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A Tough Town's Soft Side Revealed

Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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He died after being crushed in a city garbage truck's jaws

late in November.

It was 3 a.m. on Meeker Street in Greenpoint, and he was wrapped in dirty

blankets and plastic bags as he slept under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. He

awoke moments before he was crushed to death.

By now he would have been buried in Potter's Field on Hart Island, a final

stop for...

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