Tag Archives: Gloria Cruz
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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Charter school to open in September
Posted on 11. Mar, 2011 by Daniel Rosenblum.
Local children will have access to a method of teaching often used by expensive private schools, but never by a New York City public school when a new charter school opens in Mott Haven this fall.
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Marchers call for end to gun violence
Posted on 17. May, 2010 by Emily Lavin.
Mott Haven residents lead effort to stop the bleeding As she sat on her aunt’s lap, tears streamed down five-year-old Maryliz Romero’s face as she thought of her uncle, whose picture she was wearing on an oversized button. “This is what we go through all the time,” said her aunt, Lesly Romero, 35, looking down [...]
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Vigil held for shooting victim
Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by Joe Hirsch.
25 year-old Taisha Santiago was killed protecting her 9 year-old son as they were caught in crossfire in front of their home in Mott Haven on September 25. 25 year-old Jason Irizarry and 16 year-old Robert Vargas were arrested for firing the shots, one of which killed Santiago. The shooting occurred at the corner of [...]
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Mott Haven march denounces gun violence
Posted on 13. Jul, 2009 by Joe Hirsch.
By Joe Hirsch news@motthavenherald.com Naisha Pearson was just 10 years old when she was gunned downed in Saw Mill Park on East 139th Street. She was playing at a Labor Day block party in 2005 when a stray bullet struck her. Soundslide by Maria Clark Her killer, a 20-year-old stranger named Rene Bonilla, was shooting [...]
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Buy-back takes an arsenal off Bronx streets
Posted on 02. Jun, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.
By Azriel James Relph azriel.james.relph@gmail.com When you subtract nearly a thousand guns from the arsenals of residents, what do you get? Safer Bronx streets, say the organizers of the Fourth Annual Mother’s Day Walk Against Gun Violence. In April, the most successful gun buy-back since the New York City Police Department and the Bronx District [...]
