Archive for 'Crime'
‘Put down your guns,’ youth group pleads
Posted on 03. Jun, 2011 by Kathy Conkwright.
Mott Haven organization works to curb growing violence Danny Barber has been warned that people are out to kill him because he’s trying to keep young people from a life of crime and violence. Gang members have targeted him because he helped bring a program called LIFE Camp to the Bronx, he says. They believe [...]
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Gun buyback scheduled
Posted on 01. Jun, 2011 by Joe Hirsch.
NYPD will give bank cards to people who bring their guns to three Bronx churches on Saturday, June 4. $200 bank cards will be given in exchange for working handguns, and $20 will be given to those who turn in an operable rifle or shotgun. NYPD officials say no questions will be asked of those [...]
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Tenants challenge police policy
Posted on 10. Mar, 2011 by Kathy Conkwright.
Public housing “residents feel like they’re being targeted and harassed in their own homes,” says a tenant leader.
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Bodega owners consider armed defense
Posted on 05. Jan, 2011 by Paul Bufano.
Would guns promote safety or violence? By Paul Bufano Last August a drunken brawl broke out at Sam’s Mini Market Deli and Grocery on Willis Avenue. At one point someone pulled a gun. The bodega’s manager Amar Alseid decided he’d had enough. He wants a gun of his own. Alseid is one of a growing [...]
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No more on the down low, gay leaders vow
Posted on 31. Oct, 2010 by Carmel Delshad.
South Bronx lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community leaders are uniting to combat the rise in anti-gay crimes in their borough and beyond.
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In their own words: LGBT Bronxites react
Posted on 31. Oct, 2010 by Carmel Delshad.
The recent anti-gay crimes in Morris Heights left lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered residents in the Bronxthem unnerved. Some felt the suicides of gay children and young adults, like Tyler Clementi, could have been stopped if LGBT communities united to say it’s OK to be gay or transgendered. Others thought anti-gay crimes aren’t new issues [...]
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In the news, August 22-28
Posted on 23. Aug, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.
A gathering of evangelical Hispanic Christians in St. Mary’s Park on Labor Day will bring thousands of the faithful to Mott Haven, its organizers say. They will celebrate the 80th birthday of Rev. Yiye Avila and the 50th year of his ministry, according to state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., one of the organizers of the [...]
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In the news, August 1-7
Posted on 01. Aug, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.
The work of the renowned architect C.B.J. Snyder, best known for his work on public schools, will be discussed by researcher Jean Arrington. The free lecture is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, August 18 at p.m. at the Mott Haven Library, 321 E. 140th St. off Alexander Ave, and is sponsored by the Bronx [...]
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In the news, July 26-August 1
Posted on 26. Jul, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.
Beginning a string of three homicides in seven days, 18-year-old Troynisha Harris was killed by a man who jumped from a Lincoln Town Car and plunged a knife into her neck on July 24. Harris and a friend were sitting on a stoop on 166th Street at 3:30 a.m. when the attacker struck. When Harris’s [...]
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In the news, July 6-11
Posted on 07. Jul, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.
The farmer’s market at La Finca del Sur will open this Saturday, July 10, from 10-1. The mid-summer Farm Fest is July 31. Nineteen-year-old Mavon Chapman was gunned down on 149th Street and Morris Avenue and died of his head wound before he could be treated at Lincoln Hospital a block away. A school focused [...]
