Those hoping for a dramatic battle between a corporation and a Bronx art collective will have to wait, according to the New York Post. Just two days after The New York Times reported on a copyright infringement incident between car company Fiat and South Bronx graffiti group TATS Cru, the two parties already settled. “We […]
Archive | November, 2011
Graffiti Crew and Fiat settle copyright complaint — New York Post
Posted on 30 November 2011.
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Taking Advil to schools
Posted on 30 November 2011.
As schools nationwide watch budgets dwindle, for-profit companies have stepped in. However, critics see gifts from these companies not as goodwill, but as a way of marketing to children.
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Jennifer Lopez commerical draws ire of South Bronx graffiti group — The New York Times
Posted on 29 November 2011.
J-Lo cannot catch a break. Media outlets already reported about Jennifer Lopez’s Fiat car commercial that shows her driving through the Bronx without her actually being there. Now, a graffiti collective from the South Bronx, TATS Cru, demanded payment for copyright trouble from Fiat–the owners of Chrysler–and their ad agency. The car company’s commercial featured […]
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Power outage kills woman at Pelham Gardens nursing home — New York Daily News
Posted on 29 November 2011.
A woman relying on a ventilator died in the Pelham Gardens nursing home meant to keep patients like her alive. The Daily News reported that during a power outage in the area on Sunday, an emergency generator failed to activate at the Eastchester Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, according to officials. The ventilator that kept […]
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Albanians celebrate together in the Bronx
Posted on 28 November 2011.
Albanian-Americans celebrated their heritage at an annual gala dinner
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Bronx policeman arrests drunk flight passenger, NY Post
Posted on 28 November 2011.
A 18-year NYPD veteran arrested a 22 year-old man on a flight back from Puerto Rico. The 22 year-old identified as Antonio Ynoa, allegedly punched four times a female flight attendant in the face. Ynoa seems to have started the fight after the attendant refused to bring him more soda to mix with the duty-free bottle of rum […]
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City falls short to punish worst slumlords, NY Daily News
Posted on 28 November 2011.
Despite spending $33 million on a program which goal was to crack down on slumlord owners, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development has failed to improve the living conditions of thousands of tenants. In 2007 for instance, housing officials named 935 Kelly St. in the Bronx one of New York’s “worst of the worst” and […]
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Power failure at nursing home leaves Bronx woman dead, NY Daily News
Posted on 27 November 2011.
A 49 year-old patient relying on ventilator died after a power outage at the Eastchester Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Pelham Gardens. Emergency Medical Services had to transport 37 other patients to nearby hospitals to avoid such incidents. Ari Donowitz, an administrator at the 200-bed nursing home admitted the the generator might not have been functioning well. “We did […]
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