Narcotics police have been bypassing County prosecutors as an act defiance since the ticket-fixing scandal, New York Daily News reports. Some officers are taking major cases to special narcotics prosecutor Bridget Brennan instead of dealing with District Attorney Robert Johnson, sources said. Nsrcotics officers are among the 530 NYPD employees caught on wire-tapped phones in […]
Archive | October, 2011
Angry Narcotics Police Bypass County Prosecutors Since Ticket-Fixing Scandal, Daily News
Posted on 04 October 2011.
Bronx synagogue welcomes Jewish New Year with a last goodbye
Posted on 03 October 2011.
Lifelong congregants of Temple Emanuel at Parkchester say other synagogues in the Bronx are also experiencing precipitous declines in membership
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Bronx Alive does the double dip
Posted on 03 October 2011.
The dip in participation at Viva Bronx comes at a time when several fairs have been discontinued across the city.
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Claremont To Get First ‘Slow Zone’ In New York, The Bronx Times
Posted on 03 October 2011.
Claremont in the Bronx is to become New York’s first traffic ‘slow zone’ to combat road deaths in the area, which are the highest of any neighborhood in the city, reports the Bronx Times. The Department of Transportation have announced they are close to finishing a system of road bumps and 20 mph speed limits […]
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Police Hunt For Robbers Who Choked Taxi Drivers, NY Daily News
Posted on 03 October 2011.
Police are searching for two men who choked and robbed livery taxi drivers in three separate incidents in September, NY Daily News reports. At 10.45 p.m. on Sept. 18, a 6ft black male choked a taxi driver near Boston Road and Allerton Avenue, escaping with an unknown amount of money. Two days later the thief […]
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Rat Island Sells For $160,000 At Auction, WSJ
Posted on 03 October 2011.
Rat Island in the Bronx sold for $160,000 at auction yesterday (Sunday), reports the Wall Street Journal. The island, which is located off the coast of City Island, used to be used as a quarantine for typhoid sufferers. Buyer Alex Schibli has not yet announced what he plans to do with it.
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Mott Haven garden offers tranquility and community spirit
Posted on 02 October 2011.
Wanacqua Garden, with its rows of beans, yams, pumpkins and papalo, still attracts gardeners and greenhorns.
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Pelham Bay landfill lawsuit set for court, The Bronx Times
Posted on 02 October 2011.
A lawsuit against the Pelham Bay Landfill by families who claim their children developed cancer because of it, got the okay to fight their case in a court, reports The Bronx Times. The landfill was shut down in 1979, however many continue to claim that contaminated air, soil and groundwater caused leukemia or Hodgkin’s disease […]