‘How ya doin?’

With these four syllables, delivered within an unmistakably authentic NY accent, Steve Osborne has riveted a large number of people through the legendary storytelling outfit The Moth (and more than a million times on their website) along with his hilarious, profane, and touching tales from his two decades served as an NYPD street cop. Steve Osborne may be the genuine deal, people, the hard streetwise NY cop of your dreams, one with a big big heart. Kojak? NYPD Blue? Regulation & about The Job: True Stories from the Life of a fresh York Town Cop Order? Fuggedaboutem! THE WORK blows them out of the drinking water with this unputdownable reserve.

Steve Osborne has seen a thing or two in his twenty years in the NYPD-some harmless things, some not at all. In ‘Stakeout,’ Steve and his partner mistake a Manhattan dentist for an equipped robbery believe and decrease the man right down to a puddle of snot and tears when questioning him. In ‘Mug Shot,’ the mom of the suspected legal makes a strange request and provides a sobering reminder of the humanity on the line in his occupation. And in ‘House,’ the picture of his family members supplies the adrenaline he needs to fight for his life when assaulted by two equipped and violent crackheads. From his times as a rookie cop to the time spent patrolling in the Anti-Crime Unit-and his visceral, harrowing recollections of working during 9/11-Steve Osborne’s tales capture both absurdity of police work and the bravery of these who get it done. His tales will speak to those nostalgic for the brand new York Town of the 1980s and ’90s, a bygone period of when the town was a crazier, more threatening (and possibly even more interesting) place.

Includes two live stories from The Moth-Hot Canines and Dentist

Stories through the Moth thanks to The Moth.