Here's the first of three off-beat, year-end episodes of stories about a New York minute, with a pair about the drug business told by Cliff Michel and Steve Lynn, and then a pair about gloom, glamor and gunmption told by Huge Perez and Flo Ankah.

Here's the first of three off-beat, year-end episodes of stories about a New York minute, with a pair about the drug business told by Cliff Michel and Steve Lynn, and then a pair about gloom, glamor and gunmption told by Huge Perez and Flo Ankah.