BARTENDER RUBS $7 MILLION PRIZE Woodlawn Man Wins NYS Lottery Scratch-Off
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May 19-25, 2017 Your Neighborhood — Your News® 75 cents SERVING THROGGS NECK, PELHAM BAY, COUNTRY CLUB, CITY ISLAND, WESTCHESTER SQUARE, MORRIS PARK, VAN NEST, PELHAM PARKWAY, CASTLE HILL BARTENDER RUBS $7 MILLION PRIZE Woodlawn man wins NYS Lottery scratch-off BY ARTHUR CUSANO worked as a bartender for next door when he bought the If you’re looking for a lucky years across the New York ticket. place to buy a lottery ticket, City area for the past 40 years, He said he had been playing a street lined with four-leaf will take home $4.3 million af- the scratch off every other day clovers seems like as good a ter taxes by taking the lump or so since Christmas when he choice as any. sum prize up front. started giving the cards out as The Bronx’ famed Irish He was joined by the long- Christmas gifts. neighborhood was certainly time face of the New York State “I just wanted to scratch lucky for 56-year-old Bronx Lottery, Yolanda Vega, at the one ticket because I was al- native Michael Moriarty, who convenience store on Tuesday, ready running late with my purchased a lottery ticket in May 22 where he shared with daughter,” he said. “When I Woodlawn Gift Shop on Ka- the media his fateful decision saw a bunch of zeros, I was tonah Avenue on Wednesday, to play the state lottery game hoping for $10,000, that’s all I April 12 that netted him a $7 ‘Cash Blowout.’ wanted.” million prize. Moriarty was dropping off Moriarty, who said he has his laundry at the laundromat Continued on Page 76 Heller takes the reins as CB 8 DM BY ARTHUR CUSANO northwest Bronx. prominent transportation en- Community Board 8 has a Early in his career he served gineering fi rm Sam Schwartz. Mommy & Me Fashion Show new district manager with a fa- as a community liaison for the “Over the years, I’ve worked miliar face. NYC Transit Authority in sev- very closely with district man- Bronx Fashion Week’s very own Caridad ‘La Bruja’ De La Luz host- Michael Heller, 61, assumed eral boroughs, and later held agers and community boards in ed the Mommy & Me Fashion Show on Saturday, May 13 at the Mall control of the board Monday, community affairs manage- areas all over the city,” he said. at Bay Plaza. Celebrating the signifi cant role motherhood signi- May 15 after the board voted to ment positions at Jacobi Medi- “The way our city government fi ed in everyday life, the fashion showcase displayed some of the instate him at its April meet- cal Center, Albert Einstein is set up, the community boards most beautiful and powerful women in every Bronx-based indus- ing. College of Medicine and later are a critical link between the try. PEEKAPOSE Productions model Dira Ve (r) with her fashionista A former CB 8 board mem- Montefi ore when they acquired needs of local residents and lo- niece, Ariela. See more photos in next week’s edition. ber and lifelong Riverdale res- the college. cal organizations and the agen- Photo by Miriam Quin ident, Heller is no stranger His most recent employment to the inner workings of the was as a community liaison for Continued on Page 76 A CNG Publication • Vol. 37 No. 20 www.bxtimes.com UP CLEARANCE SALE TO % GATEWAY SUPERSTORE 550 GATEWAY DR, GATEWAY CENTER 60 OFF GoFor To More Our Blog Information To See Our Weekly Visit Specials!Us At VistVisit Our Our New www.bronxdentistny.comNEW Web-ite: Web-Site: www.reliablebronxdentist.com www.reliablebronxdentist.com GOT IMPLANTS DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT COME SEE US (718) 547-5280 2 BRONX TIMES REPORTER, MAY 19-25, 2017 BTR We are Board Certified Plastic Surgeons this is our area of specialty. We our devoted to the education and practice of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery. 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A group home has been are from; so, all of their family As things now stand, Heck- proposed for a long-vacant members are from the Bronx man said he sometimes has to house on a very narrow one- (and) they would have easy ac- back out of the block because way street. cess to the individuals.” he cannot pass if there is a Unique People Services She said that a detached large truck, bus or van on the sent notices to elected offi cials house was chosen because of street. and Community Board 10 this potential minor behavioral is- “Parking on the block is week announcing its inten- sues that some of the individu- at a premium now, and the tion to open a group home for als have displayed, caused by last thing we need is (a group six developmentally disabled Down syndrome and autism. home) staff who need to use young women at 2717 Gifford The goal, said Andre, would parking spaces,” he said, after Avenue, near Bruckner Bou- be to integrate the women into learning it will be monitored levard. the community. 24-hours a day. Martin Prince, CB 10 “I aim to add value to the Neighbor Elix Madera- chairman, said that the board community,” she said. Fliegelman, said she was not is now in the process of sched- Mary Jane Musano, Wa- concerned, but could see how uling a hearing within 40 days terbury-LaSalle Community some of her neighbors might and notifying the community, Association board member, have traffi c concerns. per all applicable rules. said she has heard the claim “I don’t have a problem with The Woodlawn-based or- that the incoming group home (the group home residents) be- ganization’s executive direc- would serve local people be- cause they are just like you or tor, Yvette Andre, said that fore. She’s waiting to learn Unique People Services confi rmed it is planning a group home for devel- I,” she said of the women, add- the two-family house would more about the facility. opmentally disabled young women at 2717 Gifford Avenue. ing that the street is narrow include bedrooms for each of “All in all, we have more Community News Group / Patrick Rocchio and the house doesn’t have a the young women, all of whom than our share and I don’t driveway. have been going to school out- think it is fair,” she said, add- The property was the site of-state but are coming back ing that she hopes the com- not in favor of the group home “This is a small street,” he of a fi re in 2010, according to a home after reaching adult- munity would look into UPS’ proposal based on what he has said. “We don’t have any space published report. hood. other operations, which in- heard. for an ambulette to pull over The 3,168 square foot resi- “This is a home for indi- clude housing for people with He believes that the en- and pick up or drop off.” dence was put on the market viduals with developmen- HIV/AIDS and mental ill- tire community should be Any vehicle serving the for $699,000, according to real tal disabilities who are from nesses. formerly notifi ed and should proposed group home would estate listings. the Bronx,” said Andre, add- Kevin Heckman, who lives have a chance to comment, in- choke off the street’s entire UPS is not yet in contract, ing “We try to develop group on Gifford Avenue, said he was cluding on traffi c issues. traffi c fl ow if it doesn’t fi nd a said Andre. 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