Police believe a cop from the 52nd Precinct in Norwood undervalued a stolen piece of technology, according to the New York Daily News. They charged Officer Damian McIntosh with providing a false listing for the value of a snatched iPad by hundreds of dollars. The Quality Assurance Division of the New York City Police Department […]
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Norwood Cop faces stat-fixing charges, lawyer fires back with revenge claim — NY Daily News
Posted on 02 December 2011.
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Graffiti Crew and Fiat settle copyright complaint — New York Post
Posted on 30 November 2011.
Those hoping for a dramatic battle between a corporation and a Bronx art collective will have to wait, according to the New York Post. Just two days after The New York Times reported on a copyright infringement incident between car company Fiat and South Bronx graffiti group TATS Cru, the two parties already settled. “We […]
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Jennifer Lopez commerical draws ire of South Bronx graffiti group — The New York Times
Posted on 29 November 2011.
J-Lo cannot catch a break. Media outlets already reported about Jennifer Lopez’s Fiat car commercial that shows her driving through the Bronx without her actually being there. Now, a graffiti collective from the South Bronx, TATS Cru, demanded payment for copyright trouble from Fiat–the owners of Chrysler–and their ad agency. The car company’s commercial featured […]
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Power outage kills woman at Pelham Gardens nursing home — New York Daily News
Posted on 29 November 2011.
A woman relying on a ventilator died in the Pelham Gardens nursing home meant to keep patients like her alive. The Daily News reported that during a power outage in the area on Sunday, an emergency generator failed to activate at the Eastchester Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, according to officials. The ventilator that kept […]
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Bronx policeman arrests drunk flight passenger, NY Post
Posted on 28 November 2011.
A 18-year NYPD veteran arrested a 22 year-old man on a flight back from Puerto Rico. The 22 year-old identified as Antonio Ynoa, allegedly punched four times a female flight attendant in the face. Ynoa seems to have started the fight after the attendant refused to bring him more soda to mix with the duty-free bottle of rum […]
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City falls short to punish worst slumlords, NY Daily News
Posted on 28 November 2011.
Despite spending $33 million on a program which goal was to crack down on slumlord owners, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development has failed to improve the living conditions of thousands of tenants. In 2007 for instance, housing officials named 935 Kelly St. in the Bronx one of New York’s “worst of the worst” and […]
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Power failure at nursing home leaves Bronx woman dead, NY Daily News
Posted on 27 November 2011.
A 49 year-old patient relying on ventilator died after a power outage at the Eastchester Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Pelham Gardens. Emergency Medical Services had to transport 37 other patients to nearby hospitals to avoid such incidents. Ari Donowitz, an administrator at the 200-bed nursing home admitted the the generator might not have been functioning well. “We did […]
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All-boy Catholic High School Educator involved in child-porn scandal, NY Daily News
Posted on 26 November 2011.
Brother Lawrence Gordon, 31, was assistant principal at Mount St. Michael Academy in the Bronx. On Valentine’s Day this year he accidentally left a USB stick in one of the the school’s library computers, which was later found by another teacher. The device contained sexually explicit images of young boys. Gordon was fired. Authorities knew about the problem in March […]
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