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On October 29, 1984, Eleanor Bumpurs was shot and killed by the New York City Police Department (NYPD). The police were present to enforce a city-ordered eviction of Bumpurs, an elderly and disabled African American woman, from her New York Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing unit at 1551 University Avenue (Sedgwick Houses) in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx.
Rubble Kings is a 2015 documentary film directed by Shan Nicholson that depicts gang violence in The Bronx in the 1970s, specifically the events leading up to and following the Hoe Avenue peace meeting. The film premiered at the DOC NYC film festival in New York City on November 16, 2014. [1]
Sex, Money, Murder (also known as Sex Money Murda, S.M.M., or $.M.M.) is a "set" of the Bloods street gang operating on the East Coast of the United States. The gang was formed in the Soundview section of The Bronx in the Soundview Houses, a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) development.
Authorities say the women, who live six city blocks from each other in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx, were racing one another, each driving in excess of 90 mph in a 50 mph zone ...
Between 2011 and 2021, the share of South Bronx households below the federal poverty line declined from about 39.7% to 36.3%, according to a New York State Comptroller report on the South Bronx ...
The Police Tapes was an important source for Fort Apache, The Bronx, a 1981 film with Paul Newman and Ed Asner. [13] It influenced the deliberately ragged visual style of the 1980s television police drama Hill Street Blues, which used handheld cameras to provide a sense of realism and immediacy—particularly during the morning roll call in each episode, which was based on a similar scene in ...
“I like taking my hair out like this,” Lopez, 54, states as she ruffles her waves in the 13-second clip.“It reminds me like, when I was 16 in The Bronx running up and down the block ...
Rosalie Garcia (born c. 1953), also known as Shorty, is an American former drug dealer.She headed a deadly heroin ring in the Bronx in New York City in the 1990s. [1] Garcia made $70,000 per week as part of the Hoe Avenue Crew. [2]