“The floating pool will remain at Barretto Point Park for at least another four years, the Parks Department announced Friday.” The Hunts Point Express has more here.
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Capturing the Beauty of Everyday Life in the Bronx
Posted on 23 September 2018.
“For two decades, students of the International Center of Photography at the Point have learned analog photography and documented their community.” Journalist David Gonzalez, a local from the Bronx, reports in The New York Times.
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Morris Park, Bronx: Where Congeniality Flourishes
Posted on 23 September 2018.
“The area has welcomed waves of newcomers, but still looks much as it did when the boxer Jake LaMotta and the TV host Regis Philbin lived there.” The New York Times has more here.
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New York state’s Teacher of the Year hails from the Bronx
Posted on 19 September 2018.
It’s the first time in more than two decades the honor is being awarded to a New York City Teacher. Alhassan Susso is an immigrant from West Africa himself, and teaches social studies to immigrants at Mott Haven’s International Community High School. Chalkbeat has more on the honor here.
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Police found Parkchester woman stabbed to death at home, Sept. 5
Posted on 06 September 2018.
Parkchester woman stabbed to death in domestic violence incident, Sept. 5
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Off-duty Cop Commits Suicide in Bronx Home
Posted on 15 October 2016.
A 29 year old off duty cop committed suicide using her service weapon in her Throggs Neck condominium. NYDaily News has more details here.
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An Insanity Plea in Severed Head Selfie Murder Case
Posted on 15 October 2016.
The lawyer of the Bronx man who cut off his mother’s head and took a selfie with it told Bronx Supreme Court Thursday that her client is mentally ill and incapable of distinguishing right from wrong. Bahsid McLean, 26, is charged with murdering his mother Tanya Byrd in their apartment in February 2013. McLean’s lawyer […]
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Claremont Village Infant’s Death Declared Homicide One Year On
Posted on 15 October 2016.
Medical examiners have declared that the death of an eight month old Bronx boy almost a year ago was a homicide, after analyzing latest test results. Mason Simms was found unresponsive in the apartment of his mother, Shivon Simms, on October 24th 2015. Simms blames her then boyfriend, Edward Flowers, for the death, although police are yet […]
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