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Archive | September, 2012
Goodbye to St. Augustine’s
Posted on 17 September 2012.
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A Pelham Parkway Diner Defies the Odds in a Harsh Economy
Posted on 17 September 2012.
The Liberty Diner expands in an economy that has been tough on small businesses.
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Failed Freedomland Led to Bay Plaza’s Retail Success
Posted on 17 September 2012.
Freedomland U.S.A. — the history-themed amusement park built to rival Disneyland in 1960 — didn’t survive long, filing for bankruptcy after its first four years in operation in the Baychester section of the Bronx. Nearly five decades later, the Bay Plaza shopping center, which sits today on the same plot of land where Freedomland folded, […]
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Bronx Cell Phone Bandit Targets Young Women
Posted on 17 September 2012.
Police are searching for a suspect accused of stealing from seven women in a string of robberies over the past three weeks in the Bedford section of the Bronx, ABC-7 New York News reports. In each incident, the suspect followed the women — mostly between the ages of 16 and 27 — into their apartment building, […]
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Police Charge Man for Killing of Bronx Gas Station Worker
Posted on 16 September 2012.
Police charged Freddie McGrier with murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon for the killing of a gas station attendant in the Bronx on Tuesday, Sept. 4, the New York Daily News reported. Lamin Sillah, 28, of the Bronx, was working at RC Petroleum at E. 182nd St. and Southern Blvd. in the Bronx Park South section […]
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Fordham Residents Flee Raging Fire in Hazardous Apartment Building
Posted on 15 September 2012.
Fire injured 14 in a Fordham apartment building cited for 21 hazardous violations, including inadequate fire escapes.
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Police Looking for Bronx Robber Who Uses Hypodermic Needle
Posted on 15 September 2012.
Police are pursuing a robber who has been using a hypodermic needle as a weapon in the Bronx, NBC New York reported. The suspect is described as a male about 40 years old with black hair and brown eyes who is 5-feet-6 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, […]
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Bodega Robbery Suspects Charged with Murder in Cuevas Shooting
Posted on 15 September 2012.
Family members of three Bronx bodega robbery suspects protest the additional charge of murder in the death of Reynaldo Cuevas, an unarmed clerk killed in the melee by police.
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