A Tough Town's Soft Side Revealed
Dennis Duggan
Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday
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...
