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A 12-year-old girl and her 40-year-old mother were among six people wounded in a brazen shooting inside a Bronx convenience store after the parent was used as a human shield by the “cowardly ...
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 ...
Moreover, South Bronx residents were reportedly burning down vacant properties, either for scrap or to get better housing, [255] while some landlords were doing the same in order to collect the insurance money. [256] Media attention brought the Bronx, especially its southern half, into common interest nationwide.
Merchants and residents in a South Bronx neighborhood are crying foul over plans to open a massive new migrant men's shelter next month, calling the move dangerous.
The Bronx (/ b r ɒ ŋ k s / BRONKS) is the northernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New York City borough of Queens, across the East River.
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.
A 32-year-old patient suffering from a "serious brain injury" at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital was raped in the hospital on Friday, police sources told the New York Post. The patient, a female, was raped ...
On May 29, an NYPD officer shoved a 20-year-old woman to the ground at a protest near Barclays Center in Brooklyn, resulting in concussion and seizures. [90] A video of the incidents depicts the officer calling the woman a "bitch" after she asked about his order to get out of the street.