Friday, December 21, 2012
Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Shapiro, others question shopping-center project
Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Shapiro, others question shopping-center project: By Michael Horowitz BRONX, NEW YORK, December 21- Riverbay board member Al Shapiro and a number of Co-op City shareholders, commenting du...
Shapiro, others question shopping-center project
By Michael Horowitz
BRONX, NEW YORK, December 21- Riverbay board member Al Shapiro and a number of Co-op City shareholders, commenting during last Wednesday night's Riverbay board meeting, expressed reservations about plans to modernize and expand Co-op City's three shopping centers.
Shapiro expressed concerns that the involvement of a developer in the upgrading of the three shopping centers would wind up “pricing out” current merchants who have served the community's shareholders for years.
A spokesman for Cushman & Wakefield, which has been overseeing plans for the development of the three shopping centers, gave assurances that no current merchant would involuntarily be “price out” of a business in the Dreiser Loop, Einstein Loop, and Einstein Loop shopping center.
Commenting Shapiro said that he had an open mind on plans to modernize the three shopping centers --- plans that could create a new revenue stream for the Riverbay Corporation.
In other comments at last Wednesday night's board meeting, board members and shareholders in the audience indicated that they didn't like the idea of a developer profiting from the development of commercial space that the Riverbay Corporation owns.
Cushman & Wakefield's plans for Co-op City's three shopping centers call for a developer to pay for major upgrades of commercial space in the three shopping centers and to share in the income derived from this development, on a 50-50 basis, with the Riverbay Corporation.
Among Riverbay board members, Leah Graham seemed to be most favorably inclined toward Cushman & Wakefield's plans, indicating that she saw no problem with the developer benefiting as long as Co-op City did, too.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Bronx News (Bxnews.net): DNA Solves 20-Year-Old Murder Cold Case
Bronx News (Bxnews.net): DNA Solves 20-Year-Old Murder Cold Case: BRONX, NEW YORK, December19- District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced that a murder charge has been filed against a 60-year-o...
DNA Solves 20-Year-Old Murder Cold Case
BRONX, NEW YORK, December19- District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced that a murder charge has been filed against a 60-year-old defendant in connection with the brutal stabbing of a woman in Riverdale 19 years ago on October 20, 1993.
Lucius Crawford, of Beekman Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York, was indicted by the grand jury on one count of murder in the second degree. The indictment alleges that Crawford acted “with intent” in causing the death of 38-year-old Nella West by “blunt force trauma and sharp injuries to the head, face, and abdomen.” The deceased was stabbed multiple times and had sustained multiple fractures to her skull and numerous blunt force injuries and lacerations to her face.
Crawford, who was arrested last month in Mount Vernon, was arraigned before State Supreme Court Justice Richard Lee Price in Part T-16. The judge ordered that Crawford be held without bail.
The homicide remained unsolved until March of this year when the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner developed a full DNA profile of a suspect as a result of advances in DNA technology that was not available when the homicide occurred. Investigators were able to develop a profile from forensic evidence retrieved from vaginal swabs taken from the deceased.
(No sex crime could be charged in this case because the Statute of Limitations for sexual offenses has expired.) The profile was uploaded to the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) and was found to be a match to Crawford, who was paroled in 2008 after serving ten years on a conviction in Westchester County.
The investigation was re-opened by the NYPD 50th Precinct Detective Squad and the Bronx District Attorney’s Office as a result of a grant to test DNA forensic evidence in “cold cases”. Court records indicate that upon his apprehension the defendant admitted to causing West’s death.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Rachel Singer, Director of DNA Prosecutions.
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