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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Bronx Cell Phone Bandit Targets Young Women
Posted on 17 September 2012.
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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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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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Australian Artist Designs ‘Creature Choir’ with Faces, Voices of Bronx Residents
Posted on 14 September 2012.
An artist from Sydney, Mark Bolotin, 32, will present a 12-headed ‘creature’ at the Casita Maria youth center in Longwood on Saturday, designed from videos and sounds of Bronx residents, DNAinfo reports. 30 artists, senior citizens and children contributed to the artist’s new project with the help of Casita Maria. They were filmed and recorded while singing, sharing […]
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Fordham Manor Fire Injures Nine Residents, Two Firefighters
Posted on 13 September 2012.
A fire broke out inside a second-floor apartment building near the rear of University Ave. in Fordham Manor at about 11:30 p.m. The fire caused a total of 11 injuries, nine residents and two firefighters, the New York Daily News reports. According to FDNY Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, the smoke filled the six-story building’s upper […]
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New Pelham Parkway South sidewalk narrows service road, residents rally and sue
Posted on 12 September 2012.
The city is being sued by Bronx residents over a new sidewalk that narrows their service road, the New York Daily News reports. The new sidewalk runs along the median that separates Pelham Parkway South from its service road. The sidewalk reduces the service road to 26 feet wide — 12 feet with cars parked on both […]
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State primary election campaign intensifies in South Bronx
Posted on 11 September 2012.
Two days before New York state legislative primaries, the race in the Bronx’s 84th Assembly District is intensifying between incumbent Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo — favored to maintain her seat — and her Democratic opponent Maximino Rivera, the New York Daily News reports. Arroyo, the first Hispanic woman ever elected to the New York State Assembly, […]
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Bronx bodega robbery victim’s family calls for grand jury investigation
Posted on 10 September 2012.
In a meeting with Bronx district attorney Robert T. Johnson, the family of Reynaldo Cuevas, who was killed by a police officer after the bodega he worked at was robbed early Friday morning, said they wanted a grand jury to investigate the shooting, according to the New York Times. After watching surveillance video of the […]
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