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Just one word for what you truly are: Degenerate.

https://thenewyorkmafia.com/important-button-guys-update-4-27-24/

As you are all aware, since November of last year, we have been working on reformatting and redesigning the website to include a new paywall system, and, with that, an increase to our yearly subscription rate from $48 to $58.

Over the past few months, I have been feverishly working on that redesign in preparation for the transition. This has all been taking place on a “staging site.” The new website theme with the addition of the new paywall system required me to make many changes to the format of our existing content. It is part of the reason I removed a little more than 700 of our more than 1000 articles and galleries on the current website (which you are on now) so I could format them according to the requirements needed for the relaunch.

While we thought the entire process would only take 2-3 months, it proved more complicated and time-consuming than anticipated. We are a two-person team here at Button Guys, and I’m the one responsible for design, maintenance, etc.

Unfortunately, my mother passed away unexpectedly two weeks ago. She had a heart attack literally 15 minutes after I last spoke to and saw her. She did have some serious medical issues as she got older, but this was a total shock. It was also extremely distressing as I had to perform CPR on her until the ambulance got here. If you’ve never had the unfortunate occasion of doing that, I can assure you, it is not something you ever want to experience with a loved one.

And unfortunately for me, this isn’t the first time I’ve gone through something like this as my husband also died of a heart attack unexpectedly 18 years ago. We had a five-year-old son at the time. So, it is an understatement when I say it was a traumatic experience. But my son and I survived, and he has become a very accomplished and successful adult; his father would have been very proud. And to be honest, I’m very proud of myself because I think I did a damn good job raising him by myself as a single mom. So, experience has shown that all the difficulty and stress of dealing with it all shall pass.

Having said all that, there is a lot to do in the next 2-3 months, including selling the house, relocating, settling my mom’s estate, and so forth (and as an only child, this all falls on me.) Because of this, I am not going to be able to devote the time needed to finish preparation for our planned relaunch. It will be delayed at least until next year.

However, all of the articles I have removed from the “live” site are still here. They will be restored over the next 2-3 weeks. Many of them will not have all the photos and documents they might have had on the new website, but the text is there so that you can read and enjoy.

Any updates, additions, or expansions of those articles I made on the “staging site,” I will try to incorporate into the articles I will be turning back “on” here on the live site, but that may not be possible. The BG Mugshot Gallery will also be restored, though it, too, will be in the old format.

Other galleries and certain parts of the website that have been down for a while have actually been completely removed from the live site (and transferred to the “staging site”) and will probably not be restored here within this 2-3 week timeframe. This includes the Rat’s Nest, Boys at Work (murder gallery,) headlines gallery, and others as well as some of our more involved articles.

In addition, we will not be increasing our subscription rate as announced because that was part of the entire redesign/new paywall system process. So, for now, until we complete that transition, our subscription price will remain at $48 a year.

We will also continue to post NEW weekly articles on the website, and time permitting, I will also continue creating new videos on our YouTube channel, Mob Fireside Chat. Our YouTube Community page, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter will remain active so be sure to check all that out and follow us, if you haven’t already.

I know this was long-winded, but “The Other Guy” and I want to be as transparent as possible as to what is happening with the website. We’re not going anywhere, and we will still be producing content as mentioned, but the website itself is on hold as far as the redesign and new paywall system. But those subscribers who are new to the site (and those who have been around for a while,) keep checking back to explore the over 700 articles that will be restored here in the next few weeks as well as all the new articles we will be posting as per our regular schedule.

If you have any questions, you can contact us at nymstaff@gmail.com.

Thank you for reading, for your patience and understanding, and for your patronage.

Sincerely,

Lisa Babick