The New Yorker discovers the Gessmanns, two brothers who supply newspapers with bulletins on the latest crimes and fires. The Gessmanns maintain a network of insomniacs, who scan police radios at night, and send in reports. For some reason okay, because Manhattan has something called nightlife a disproportionate number of these insomniac scanner buffs live in Brooklyn. So much so that the Gessmanns refer to the borough as the buff capital, which must be the first time that Brooklyn has been described so flatteringly.
Calling all cars [Talk of the Town]