Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Home Run Derby

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Home runs continue as Yankees come home and beat Indians

By Rich Mancuso

BRONX, NEW YORK, June 26- Already with a Major League leading 112 home runs, the New York Yankees returned to the Bronx Monday night where they will play 13 of their next 20 games at Yankee Stadium. That’s good news for New York because a majority of those home runs have been hit in the Bronx.

That is not to say that the Yankees don’t hit the long ball on the road. That was seen over the past three days when they hit five at Citi Field against the cross town Mets as they took two of three.

With Hiroki Kuroda on the mound, and in command, the Yankees home run ball continued Monday night. Robinson Cano hit his 17^th, Nick Swisher got his 12^th, and Dewayne Wise hit his first, getting the start in center, as New York won the  opening of a three-game series over the Cleveland Indians 7-1.

“You can hold him down for a while, but he’s going to get hot,” said Yankees manager Joe Girardi about Cano who has hit six of the 17 home runs in the last eight games.

Cano drove in three runs. Kuroda (7-7) took a shutout into the eighth inning and won for the fourth time in his last six starts.

The continued home run domination of the Yankees has the opposition looking. During the series with the Mets, manager Terry Collins said they hit home runs everywhere.

With three more home runs Monday night, the Yankees have now hit 14 home runs combined over their last five games. They have hit two home runs in five straight games for the first time since August 21-26 of last season.

“It feels good, everything is connecting,” commented Cano who has increased his batting average to .302 after a slow start. Earlier in the day, Cano also took the lead in voting to start at second base for the American League in the all-star game that will take place in Kansas City July 10^th.

The win was the first of seven games on this home stand that will see the Yankees host the top two teams in the American League Central. The White Sox come to the Bronx, a four game series that begins Thursday evening.

Wise got the start and Curtis Granderson was inserted as the designated hitter. Alex Rodriguez was given a night off.

Phil Hughes (7-6) gets the start for New York as the series continues Tuesday night in the Bronx.

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Business Booming for Bronx Bank Robbers

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Business Booming for Bronx Bank Robbers: By David Greene BRONX, NEW YORK, June 25- With unemployment in the borough once again at record levels, a handful of individual...

Business Booming for Bronx Bank Robbers

By David Greene

BRONX, NEW YORK, June 25- With unemployment in the borough once again at record levels, a handful of individuals have been robbing banks at an alarming rate--keeping themselves and cops extremely busy with no less than 21 robberies or attempts since January.

In the latest incident a gunman entered the Capital One Bank at 725 Co-op City Boulevard at Just before 10 a.m., on June 16. The suspect fled with an unknown amount of cash. The NYPD has not released any information pertaining to this case.

In the other recent cases, it was just after 10 a.m. on June 14, when a man entered the Bank of America branch located at 2198 White Plains Road. The suspect passed the teller a note, demanding cash before fleeing.

Police described that suspect as a male Black, 5 foot 8, with a medium build. The perpetrator was reported to be wearing army-style shorts and hat.

Less than an hour earlier a man entered the HSBC Bank located at 3478 Boston Road. The suspect passed the teller a note demanded cash, but apparently fled empty handed.

That suspect was described as a male Black wearing a fishing hat.

On Wednesday, June 13, police were called to the Banco Popular at 752 E. Tremont Avenue, after a man held up the bank at gunpoint.

A source close to the investigation stated at the time that the suspect was possibly wanted for another recent robbery at the same bank. That suspect was described as a male Black in his 20's, 6-feet tall, wearing a black pea-coat, black hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.

On June 12, a man robbed the Capital One Bank at 19 E. Mt. Eden Avenue. That suspect was described as a heavy-set male Black, weighing 220 pounds, wearing a purple shirt and hat.

Back on June 8, a man entered the Chase Bank, located at 360 E. 149 Street, passed the teller a note and fled with an unknown amount of cash. This suspect was described as a Black male, 5' 5'' with a slim build.

A Baychester CitiBank was robbed on June 7. Police were called to 3955 Baychester Avenue at 9:30 a.m., that suspect was only described as a male Black, dressed in black.

On May 30, police once again were called to Capital One on Co-op City Boulevard, when two suspects, only described as male Black's, stole $3000 in US currency.

On May 18, police were again called to the Banco Popular on E. Tremont Avenue, after a hold-up. The gunman fled with an undetermined amount of cash.

On May 16, a robbery was reported at the Emigrant Savings Bank at 101 E. 170 Street. The perpetrator was described as a male Hispanic wearing a black shirt.

On May 14 a man robbed the HSBC Bank on W. 235 Street in Riverdale of $3,228. Police would later release a surveillance photo of the suspect, described as a Black man in his 20's, wearing a fake beard and a black baseball cap.

The same suspect is also wanted for two similar hold-ups in Brooklyn.

On May 5, an incident at the Chase Bank at 5 E. Burnside Avenue was reported, but it is not known if the suspect fled with any money.

The Chase Bank at 784 Castle Hill Avenue reported a robbery by a Black male on April 21.

On March 31, a hold-up was reported at the Chase Bank at 3775 Riverdale Avenue. Police were reportedly looking for a white male, who apparently fled empty-handed after the teller hit a silent alarm.

On January 18, an attempt was made at the Capital One Bank located at 2159 White Plains Road. Determined to make a withdrawal, sources say the suspect then walked over to the Chase Bank at 2126 White Plains Road and robbed that location.

The CitiBank at 1265 Castle Hill Avenue was held-up at gunpoint on January 17. Despite the handgun, this male suspect fled empty handed.

Leaving no bank behind, on January 14, the Chase Bank at 1489 Metropolitan Avenue in Parkchester was robbed of an unknown amount of cash.

On January 10, a woman entered the Chase Bank at 1308 E. Gun Hill Road. Witnesses say the woman claimed she had a bomb, but fled empty handed. The determined woman would return to the same bank on January 12, but once again fled empty-handed.

The year began with an attempted robbery on January 3, at the Chase Bank at 3514 White Plains Road.

Two hours later the Apple Bank at 44 E. 162 Street was robbed by a male suspect, who fled with an undetermined amount of cash.

Meanwhile, two Bronx men were charged on Thursday, June 15, with an October robbery of a Yonkers bank-- with a pellet gun.

Cops say Michael Johnson, 36, of Walton Avenue and his cousin Andre Johnson, 29, of Co-op City, were charged in connection with an October 7 hold-up of the Key Bank, located at 2500 Central Park Avenue.

The suspects in that case fled with an estimated $100,000.

The Johnson cousins are suspected in a half dozen other bank robberies in Yonkers, Nyack and surrounding areas. The pair were being held without bond in White Plains.

Andre Johnson is reportedly cooperating with the FBI, who is assisting local police in the investigation.

Anyone with any information on the Bronx cases are asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stopper's hot line at 1 (800) 577-TIPS, all calls remain confidential.   

Croton Water Filtration Plant Update

Riverdale Report

By Robert Press

BRONX, NEW YORK, June 25– The Croton Water Filtration Plant that is being constructed in Van Cortlandt Park is slowly coming to a finish. Now budgeted at over $3,000,000,000.00 (that is right over THREE BILLION DOLLARS) it should be on line early in 2013. This federal mandated project to filter the Croton Water originally was budgeted for $600,000.00 in the early 1990s under then Mayor David Dinkins. The proposed site was the Jerome Park Reservoir, and through the land use process was defeated by the local communities that banded together. So how did this wind up in Van Cortlandt Park two mayors later?

The federal Government under its mandate said that the city would be fined $25,000.00 per day each day that the Croton Water System was not being filtered. By the way filtration of the Croton System is needed was said, as the Croton water was not meeting new federal standards for clean drinking water. You should also know that the Croton Water System is used mainly in times of droughts, and less than 10 percent of the NYC water supply comes from the Croton Water System that has been off line for the past two years. This was not a matter of importance until Mike Bloomberg was elected mayor. Bloomberg decided that it is better to build a filtration plant than get fined every day, but where could this be built?

After coming up with a figure of $200,000,000.00 as part of the water filtration plant price that was offered to the Bronx state legislatures for improvements to borough wide Bronx Parks for their approval of the project the deal was done. Learning from the previous mayor's mistake of involving the community Mayor Bloomberg (as we have seen in several other city projects) wanted no opposition to this project, and had as small a monitoring committee as he could. One representative from each of the three community boards (the chair or their representative) that border VCP, one each from the borough president and local councilman, a parks department and a DEP representative and that was it. The chairmanship of this committee would shift every year so that each of the three community board chairs would chair the committee. We are not going to get into the community board chairs and how they are supposedly running the meetings, but we do miss Father Richard Gorman of CB 12 as the chair of the committee that was rotated recently.

The big issues now are a pedestrian bridge over the Deegan Highway that seems to have been part of the deal to build in VCP, and the $45,000,000.00 estimate of the restoration of the golf clubhouse on which the plant sits. Also the DEP wants to go to meetings every three months rather than monthly meetings as they say the plant is almost finished. The next meeting is scheduled for September and both Councilman G. Oliver Koppell and the representative from the borough Presidents office have said that they agree with the three community board chairs that there should be monthly meetings, and will speak to the commissioner of DEP on it.

On another note the six-month old Kingsbridge Road Merchants Association held its first “Unity in the Community Festival” event this past Saturday. This was a good was to see and meet the exhibitors that were there, and take in the entertainment that was provided. We hope to see the 2^nd Annual “Unity in the Community Festival” next year. You can go to my blog at www.100percentbronx.blogspot.com to read more and see photos of the event.

If you have any comments about this column or would like to have an event listed or covered in this column or on my blog you can e-mail us at 100percentbronxnews@gmail.com or call 718-644-4199 Mr. Robert Press.

Hope Army will Camp Out at Muller ARC

Wakefield Area News

By Mary V. Lauro

BRONX, NEW YORK, June 25– With rags on their backs, no shoes, starving, my friends, in freezing weather, even so, George Washington kept his men together. Valley Forge was hell on ice. Who would have thought that from that tattered band would arise the strongest army in the 21^st century? And that today, we remember all that suffering with hot dogs and barbecues and fireworks?

Well, that army has contacted our Borough President in regard to the Muller Army Reserve Center at 555 Nereid Avenue, which our Mayor would like to turn into a homeless shelter for 200 single men. We've written enough about it and readers may recall that we recently sent a letter to the Mayor correcting his false assertion that he originally wanted the ARC to house the National Guard stationed in a decrepit annex of the Kingsbridge Armory, but that we somehow dropped the ball so that he had no alternative but to turn it into a homeless shelter. (Incredible how politics destroys truth and honor).

Well, it ain't over yet. The fat lady has not sung. It seems that the Department of the Army (DOA) must investigate the impact environmental issues might have on the end use of the facility.

Those following the issue will recall that in the two studies commissioned by the city the best end use was identified as a “similar use.” What could be a more similar use than turning the facility over to the National Guard? Nonetheless, the last report sponsored by the Mayor does not even mention the National Guard as a possibility. Now, the Army has reversed that. It is definitely considering moving the National Guard into the facility.

We must, however make a case for the National Guard by pointing out the environmental issues that would impact on using it as a homeless shelter. The Army itself recognizes that leakage from the tanks at the Hess Station on the corner opposite the Muller ARC has polluted a stream of the underground water which it calls a "plume." The plume carries in it varying amounts of carcinogenic and teratogenic material. Other environmental possible pollutants given the age of the structure include asbestos, lead paint, radioactive residues and the poly chloride by-phenyls (PCBs) in some plastics.

A response to the Army must be made by July 3 which the League will do. However, the Mayor is not taking this lying down.

His Honor is so intent on a Homeless Shelter that his Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is reviewing/negotiating the terms of agreement between the City and The Doe Fund for the provision of homeless services at the ARC. This means that the city might very well recommend to the Army that the ARC be turned into a homeless shelter. If this should happen, we expect our Borough president to take the City to court as he promised.

While we are pleased that there is still hope, we cannot refrain from complaining. We received the Army's letter on our FAX on Wednesday, June 20, from an anonymous sender who said it was top secret. We called the BP's office for an update on Thursday, June 21 and were sent the Army's letter and accompanying important information. We know CB 12 had all this information for some time. The information was received at the BP's office on June 4! We did more than two weeks elapse before The League and Woodlawn, the two communities that would be most impacted by the fate of the Muller ARC, were notified?

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