My Terrifying (and Oddly Funny) 25 Hours Kidnapped in New York
From What It Was Like
Published 6/13/2026
On the eve of his 38th birthday in 1998, a lawyer named Stanley Alpert was plucked off the street by three armed men. For the next 25 hours he sat blindfolded in a corner of their Brooklyn apartment, listening to their strange lives play out around him, and carefully absorbing their stories so he…
