In an apparent case of mistaken identity, an unarmed Bronx bodega worker was shot dead by the NYPD early Friday morning as he was fleeing a robbery at his uncle’s store, the New York Daily News reported. Police officers were responding to a three-man masked robbery at Aneurys Deli Grocery on Franklin Ave. in Morrisania […]
Archive | September, 2012
Unarmed Bronx bodega worker shot dead by NYPD in case of mistaken identity
Posted on 07 September 2012.
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Hunts Point Produce Market will stay, for now
Posted on 07 September 2012.
The Hunts Point Produce Market will stay in the community, according to The New York Times. The Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market, which employs over 3,500 people, threatened to move to New Jersey. But with the approval of new funds from the Bloomberg Administration, they are “…committed as ever to keeping the Hunts Point Terminal […]
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Rapping with Poe
Posted on 06 September 2012.
Poe’s poems stuffed with “murder, lust and madness” set to Afro-Cuban music styles at the Bronx Documentary Center this Saturday night.
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An Urban Cowboy in Pelham Bay Park
Posted on 06 September 2012.
Pelham Bay’s own horse wrangler, musician, and homespun philosopher.
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Critical reviews from the Bronx on stop and frisk
Posted on 06 September 2012.
According to a New York Times public opinion poll, a significant majority of New Yorkers believe the New York Police Department’s stop and frisk policy disproportionally targets blacks and Hispanics. The policy allows police officers to stop and search people they consider suspicious as part of a larger effort to reduce crime. In the Bronx, […]
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