Andy newman new york times biography
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Andy newman new york times biography
Q&A: Andy Newman on the death of Jordan Neely and covering homelessness in New York City
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Just after 2pm on Monday, May 1, Jordan Neely, a thirty-year-old who was experiencing homelessness and known for his subway dancing and impersonations of Michael Jackson, stepped onto an F train at the Second Avenue station in Manhattan.
He was heard complaining that he was hungry, thirsty, and fed up. Neely shouted that he did not care if he went to jail or died, and threw a sweater on the floor. As the train shuttled northward, Daniel Penny, a fellow passenger and twenty-four-year-old former Marine, grabbed Neely in a choke hold, killing him.
Two days later, New York City’s medical examiner said that Neely was “choked to death” and ruled the incident a homicide.
By then the killing had already become a flash point in a national reckoning over how society treats those experiencing homelessness, dividing people—often along politi