80 | Rolling Stone | July 2019
Down Time
Jimenez and Grandstaff,
around 2 a.m., at a bar in
Chinatown (right). “You’re
with a group of guys all
day,” says Handley, “so
you say, ‘Let’s just go get a
bite and hang out.’ Maybe
you find yourself doing
that more often than you
need to, because you
need to decompress.”
Meals are almost always
eaten together, whether
takeout or at regular spots
like the Park Plaza diner
in Downtown Brooklyn
(above). “You get to know
the people you’re with,
because you’re with them
for so long that they kind of
become your best friends.”THE HOMICIDE SQUAD