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The gritty true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that transformed Fear City into the safest big city in America
NEW YORKS FINEST is the story of a citys transformation through the tireless efforts of Detective Steven McDonald Nurse Justiniano Jack Maple and a host of hero copsincluding the great niece of Jazz Age great Josephine Bakerthe finest of The Finest
The son and grandson of cops Officer McDonald was shot and paralyzed from the neck down while on patrol in 1986 The doctors said that if he did survive he would be better off dead It was then he came under the care of one Nurse Nina Justiniano Where the teenage gunman was produced by the worst of Harlems social ills she personified its many graces rescuing Steven from despair and urging him to transcend hate and bitterness
McDonald was then promoted to detective at the urging of NYPD Deputy Commissioner Jack Maple a postal workers son who sported a bow tie Homburg hat and twotone shoes as he implemented transformative crimefighting strategies to deter violent subway robberies Coming up in the force Maple had been routinely mocked for imagining the impossible that Times Square would one day be a destination for families and tourists
Now resentments and tensions are mounting in the same neighborhoods that most benefited from the careful consideration of officers like McDonald and Maple But as NEW YORKS FINEST illustrates theirlegacies and those of people like Nurse Justiniano may well rescue New York City from its present state of unrest and struggle in the wake of protests and the pandemic
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