A four-year-old boy fell from an apartment window and died in the Concourse Village section of the Bronx on Saturday afternoon. Gabriel Estevez was on the fourth-floor apartment of a building on East 161st Street while his mother was at the Laundromat, neighbors say. People heard the boy screaming and tried heading to the building […]
Archive | September, 2012
Boy falls to his death from apartment window
Posted on 30 September 2012.
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75-Year-Old Woman Attacked Inside City Housing Project
Posted on 29 September 2012.
Two men slashed a 75-year-old woman’s throat as she entered her building in the South Bronx, reports the Daily News. The victim, Rosa Rodriguez, was left bleeding in front of her builing in the St. Mary’s Park Houses where she has lived for more than 40 years. Rodriguez is currently hospitalized. Following the incident, neighbors rallied outside the housing project […]
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Latino Voters Say No Way to Romney
Posted on 29 September 2012.
A BronxInk survey found that 90 percent of Hispanic voters were planning to vote for President Barack Obama; 0 percent for his Republican challenger
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Skepticism over East Tremont Initiative to Fight Crime with Whistles
Posted on 29 September 2012.
The program aims to distribute whistles that elderly citizens will blow if they are in danger.
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Police Identify Hypodermic Needle Robber
Posted on 29 September 2012.
The police have released the photo of Anthony Angel Cintron, 39, who allegedly threatened victims with hypodermic needle. The victims of the robberies were all male, and as young as 14, reports NBC 4 New York. Citron is accused of stealing iPads, iPods and cell phones, police said. Anyone with information in regards to these […]
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Van Nest Library Asked to Do More With Less
Posted on 28 September 2012.
Local Pelham Parkway library branches try to balance their changing roles with changing resources
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Troubled Teen Charged with Killing his Mother
Posted on 28 September 2012.
Neighbors and community members said Darwin Jackson, charged with the murder of his mother Tihesha Savage, was moody and distant.
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Bronx District Attorney Curbs Stop-and-Frisk Abuses
Posted on 28 September 2012.
Bronx prosecutors are the first in the city to require police to justify in person each stop-and-frisk trespassing arrest.
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