Posted on 25 September 2011. Tags: construction, department of buildings, Hurricane Irene, spuyten deuyvil, villa charlotte bronte
The Villa Charlotte Bronte, the castle in Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx, was hit hard by Hurricane Irene a month ago, and residents in five of the 17 apartments inside still can’t go home, reports the New York Times. Engineers haven’t been able to determine the safety of the buildings’ foundation. Construction will be not only […]
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Posted on 25 September 2011. Tags: cedar avenue, john vasquez, Lincoln Hospital, Morris Heights, sedgwick avenue, shooting
Police responded to a 911 call just before 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning in Morris Heights, finding 20-year-old John Vasquez and a 56-year-old with gunshot wounds, reports NY1. Vasquez was pronounced dead. The 56-year-old, as yet unidentified, is in stable condition at Lincoln Hospital. The shooting occurred at the intersection of Cedar and Sedgwick Avenues. Police are investigating. […]
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Posted on 24 September 2011. Tags: bronx lab high school, camping, delaware water gap national recreation area, sierra club, youth opportunities program
Freshmen at the Bronx Lab High School are getting ready for a one-night camping trip at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, reports the New York Daily News. The trip is possible thanks to the last bit of funding that the Sierra Club’s Building Bridges to the Outdoors Program had left after it closed due […]
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Posted on 24 September 2011. Tags: Education, progress, school
New York’s elementary and middle schools received twice as many D’s and F’s this year from last year under the city’s grading system from the Department of Education, reports SchoolBook, a joint education journalism venture between the New York Times and WNYC radio. Last year, the Department enacted a rule that schools couldn’t drop more […]
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Posted on 24 September 2011. Tags: indictment, NYPD, scandal, tickets
Seventeen New York police officers were indicted by a grand jury in the Bronx yesterday, reported the New York Daily News. The investigation, which included a number of union delegates, had gone on for two years, focusing mainly on the largest police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. Though the probe involved more than 500 officers, […]
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Posted on 23 September 2011. Tags: Crime, mount eden, slasher, subway
Police have released identification details of a woman accused of slashing two other 4-train passengers, both young women, in the face two separate times, reports NBC New York. There doesn’t appear to be a motive to the crimes, which is worrying other young women riding the train, they report. Both times, the alleged slasher was […]
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Posted on 23 September 2011. Tags: culinary concepts, emerald isle immigration center, meals on wheels, Seniors, Woodlawn
Kathleen Brick, a 79-year-old Woodlawn woman, has been having a hard time getting around since her double knee surgery, so she’s taking advantage of the new Meals-On-Wheels delivery in the area, New York Daily News. The nationwide program started in Woodlawn about six weeks ago, coordinated out of the Emerald Isle Immigration Center, reports the Daily […]
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Posted on 23 September 2011. Tags: cornelia dykshoorn, Fire, johnson avenue, marinus dykshoorn
An 87-year-old Bronx woman was killed and her 91-year-old husband critically injured Thursday afternoon after their apartment on Johnson Avenue caught fire, New York Times. Police identified the woman as Cornelia Dykshoorn and her husband as Marinus Dykshoorn. Both were transported to New York Presbyterian Hospital where Cornelia Dykshoorn was pronounced dead.
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