Archive for 'Crime'
Six Bronx photographers get overdue homecoming
Posted on 15. May, 2012 by By Flonia Telegrafi.
Photo exhibit will feature insiders’ view of ’70s and ’80s South Bronx A chance meeting at a photo exhibit at Hunter College’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies in 2010 led six South Bronx photographers who have shared a common vision of life in the neighborhood for over thirty years to join forces for the first [...]
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Police beat
Posted on 24. Apr, 2012 by Joe Hirsch.
Strip club violence Police from the 40th Precinct are keeping close watch on Sin City. The strip club on Park Ave., tucked between a taxi garage on one side and Metro North tracks and a sprawling community garden on the other, has been the site of multiple incidents of violence and theft in recent months. [...]
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Street renamed for Naiesha Pearson
Posted on 02. Apr, 2012 by Joe Hirsch.
Residents and officials commemorate slain child The corner of E. 139th St. and Brook Avenue in Mott Haven was renamed Naiesha Pearson Place on March 31st, in memory of the ten-year-old girl whose death shook the community when she was struck by a stray bullet in September 2005. Some 100 family, friends, residents and elected officials [...]
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Mott Haven street to be renamed for Naiesha Pearson
Posted on 28. Mar, 2012 by cunyjschool.
Brook Ave. and 139th St. in Mott Haven will be renamed for Naiesha Pearson, the 10-year-old girl who was killed by a stray bullet in September 2005 while attending a family barbecue at the Saw Mill Playground. The renaming ceremony is scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 31, at noon.
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Cop killed in ’05 remembered at 40th Precinct
Posted on 06. Mar, 2012 by cunyjschool.
A plaque was unveiled at the 40th Precinct in Mott Haven on March 6thto honor Officer Daniel Enchautegui, who was killed trying to stop a burglary near his Pelham Bay home in December 2005. Enchautegui, who was 28 at the time, called 911 after returning home and hearing breaking glass from a nearby house, then [...]
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Change comes to the 40th precinct
Posted on 30. Sep, 2011 by By Chloé Rouveyrolles.
Update: Advocates react to change in command Just three weeks ago, Deputy Police Inspector Elias Nikas, commander of the 40th Precinct in Mott Haven, showed up at the precinct’s monthly Community Council meeting with his shoes polished and a big smile on his face. “I’ll meet with anybody anytime, let’s have a great year!” Nikas said.” [...]
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Commander leaves Mott Haven precinct
Posted on 29. Sep, 2011 by Joe Hirsch.
Deputy Inspector Elias Nikas has been replaced as commanding officer of the 40th precinct in Mott Haven. The change comes a day after widespread reports that a Bronx grand jury had begun voting indictments in the ticket fixing scandal that has implicated officers and their union delegates, who allegedly made traffic tickets go away for [...]
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Feds collar seven in Melrose mega-bust
Posted on 28. Sep, 2011 by Joe Hirsch.
Eight alleged members of a violent Melrose-based gang called the Courtlandt Avenue Crew have been indicted on murder and federal racketeering and drug trafficking charges, that could result in the death penalty for two of the defendants, if convicted. Five of the defendants were arrested in a massive raid involving nearly 100 officers from three [...]
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Cops, residents seek to thaw icy relations
Posted on 24. Aug, 2011 by Kathy Conkwright.
Advocates and police partner at Night Out Against Crime By Kathy Conkwright conkwright@motthavenherald.com The first time Angel Irizarry and Danny Barber met one another six years ago, they butted heads. ”I didn’t really like Danny,” said Irizarry, the community affairs officer for PSA-7, the NYPD branch assigned to patrol public housing complexes in Melrose. “I’m [...]
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Tenants look to cameras for safety
Posted on 02. Aug, 2011 by Matthew J. Perlman.
Public housing tenants around the city are feeling nervous about their safety, surveys show, and two new initiatives being pioneered in the South Bronx are aimed at helping them feel safer. But while both initiatives call for security cameras inside NYCHA buildings to help protect residents, housing officials support one, while rejecting a method tenant [...]
