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Extra, Extra: Reporter Chased By Screaming Maskless Men In Borough Park
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Extra, Extra: Reporter Chased By Screaming Maskless Men In Borough Park


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John Del Signore

Published Sep 28, 2020


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A woman wearing a surgical mask walks past a street food vendor on a darkened NYC sidewalk.
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Published Sep 28, 2020


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  • British public television has obtained "a huge Trump campaign data leak" which shows how the campaign listed "3.5 million Black Americans as ‘Deterrence’ - to try to stop them voting in 2016."
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  • A NY Post reporter who tried to document social distancing scofflaws in Borough Park's ultra-Orthodox community says he was chased to his car by several men without masks, "with one spitting on his driver’s window."
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.

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