Bronx Weekly: January 12, 2013
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CF:8C :C8JJ@=@<;J @EJ@;< January 13, 2013 Your Neighborhood — Your News® Uproar over unexpected MIXED REPORT neighbors BY DAVID CRUZ Elected officials and groups ON BORO CRIME say they were blindsided by the recent move of several people di- agnosed with mental illlness from Brooklyn and Queens into a Pel- ham Bay apartment complex. Murders, shootings down in 2012 They met Dec. 28 at Commu- nity Board 10 offices to meet with BY BOB KAPPSTATTER police and federal agencies taking Services for the UnderServed, a re- There’s good news and bad down a number of local violent drug spected state-backed nonprofit tem- news for crime in the Bronx. gangs. porarily housing 65 clients in the Despite last year’s dramatic But obviously, high profile long-vacant Pelham Grand. headlines of shootings and mur- murders and shootings, such as the The tenants are former mental ders, both took a downward turn, death of 4-year-old Lloyd Morgan care services patients who are deal- while other stubborn violent crimes and wounding of other innocents ing with their illness and working inched up. by stray bullets drew big headlines or attending school, said the non- The numbers, locally and city- and community outrage. profit’s chief operating officer, Dr. wide have raised concern that crime And Police Commissioner Yves Ades. He’s promised walking reduction has finally bottomed out, Raymond Kelly’s controversial tours to anyone interested. going as low as it can go. stop-and-frisk (seemingly always Officials with Community But in all cases. the actual missing the “question” part in the Board 10, Senator Jeff Klein, Coun- numbers were the lowest the bor- middle) is still hotly debated as a cilman Jimmy Vacca and Ben ough has seen in decades. significant crime deterrent or a Randazzo, Chief of Staff to Assem- Murders were down 24.3%, community relations disaster. blyman Mike Benedetto attended, with 112 killings, compared to 148 If hard numbers are any help though they say the meeting wasn’t in 2011, while shooting victims in judging the worth of the pro- publicly announced simply because dropped from 535 in 2011 to 494 last gram, while gun seizures were they were invited guests. year - a 7.7% decrease. down 4.7% citywide, they were up Rape, robberies and felony as- 13.3% in the borough, from 757 in They discovered the transient Photo by Josiane Bauke tenants had already moved into saults were up 6.6%, 3% and 7.7% 2011 to 858 weapons taken off Bronx 1870 Pelham Parkway South a day Police Officer Jason Campbell (lef) and Police Officer Steven Edwards stroll out of respectively. streets last year. before the information meeting. Throggs Neck’s 45th Precinct, where crime has fallen for the second straight year Police attribute the drop in Borough President Ruben Diaz State law says no open meet- in a row. Find out how the 45th and 49th precincts did on page 6. murders and shootings in part to Continued on Page 6 ing is required when setting up a supportive housing facility within a neighborhood since it doesn’t have to go through the NYS Site Se- Assemblywoman Gibson in City Council run lection Law process, a move CB10 chairman John Marano opposes. BY BOB KAPPSTATTER there. Claremont Village and the Forrest Still, Marano understood this EXCLUSIVE – Bronx state As- Sources said that Gibson will Houses. was an emergency situation. He semblywoman Vanessa Gibson will announce her candidacy Feb. 1 at a Gibson could possibly face insists the meeting was not “secret” announce shortly that she’s run- location yet to be determined. a crowded field of challengers in as others have characterized it. ning for the City Council seat from She is serving her second full the Sept. 10 Democratic primary, “For all those naysayers that Highbridge. two-year term in the Assembly though she is expected to have the say it’s a secret meeting is sad,” he The seat, which also covers after having won the seat in a spe- party’s backing for the council seat, said. parts of Melrose and Morrisania, cial election when Aurelia Greene which pays $112,000 annually com- The public will still have a is being vacated by term-limited stepped down to become deputy pared to $79,000 in the Assembly. chance to air their concerns at the Councilwoman Helen Foster, whose borough president. The 77th A.D. Foster’s 16th Council District next CB10 general board meeting father Wendell held the seat for sev- also covers the heavy voting base is likely to shrink once the city Dis- Continued on Page 4 eral terms before her three terms of Concourse Village, as well as Continued on Page 4 ASSEMBLYWOMAN VANESSA GIBSON A CNG Publication • Vol. 672 No. No. 2 5 • Vol. 67 No. 5 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BXTIMES.COM SECURITY DRUGS 0(!2-!#9352')#!,3500,)%3s$25'3s#/3-%4)#3s&2!'2!.#%3s6)4!-).3s(%!,4("%!549 Surgical Supplies $OCTORSCANCALL FAX Wheel Chairs % 2X OREMAILUS #ANESs7ALKERS NEWPRESCRIPTIONSAT 6)3)4/52.%7,/#!4)/.3 [email protected] "ATH2AILS .ICKS$RUG3TORE #OMMODEs"ED0ANS 7EAREPROUDTOOFFER Pharmacy/Surgucal (OSPITAL"EDS s#OUNSELINGONPRESCRIPTIONS Supplies "LOOD0RESSURE-ACHINE sMINUTEPRESCRIPTIONFILLING $IABETIC3UPPLIES s&REEBLOODSUGAREXAMINATION RD!VENUE s9EARLYCUSTOMERPRESCRIPTIONHISTORY "RONX .9 Money Gram s!UTOMATICREFILLREMINDER s#OMPOUND2X -ONEY/RDERS #UREWELL$RUGS EX0ROGESTERONE3UPPOSITORY ,OTTO)NSTANT4ICKET "ROADWAY -ETRO#ARDS 7EACCEPT .EW9ORK .9 Phone Cards s-EDICAID 7IC#HECKS s-EDICARE0ART"AND$ s-OSTTHIRDPARTYINSURANCE CENTCOPIES s#63#AREMAK , &AX3ERVICETO!NYWHERE s%XPRESS3CRIPTS s!LL-EDICAID(-/ 6 ,9 h)NMYTWENTYYEARS ASAPHARMACIST )M HAPPYTOWORKFOR 3ECURITY$RUGSWHERE THEYTAKECAREOFTHEIR CUSTOMERSv !CCURATE&AST&RIENDLY3ERVICE Natu “Nick” Gevaria, BS Rph Pharmacist Photo courtesy of Montefiore Medical Center "OSTON2OAD#ORNEROF&ISH!VE s"RONX .9 (Right) First baby of 2013 in the Bronx, Emerald Adrianne Jordyn Givans, is held by mom, Andrea White. She is surrounded by proud sister, Jewel Gordon (left), and nurses (l-r): Gina McManus, RN, Helen Ayeo, 0( s&AX WWWSECURITYDRUGScom RN, and Terri Malichek, RN. WWW.BXTIMES.COM BRONX WEEKLY january 13, 2013 2 january WEEKLY BRONX WWW.BXTIMES.COM www.NYParenting.com First Bronxite born Where every family matters and where New York parents fi nd help, info and support. in 2013 at Montefi ore t Great Articles t Ticket Give-A-Ways: BY KIRSTEN SANCHEZ said baby Givans was not to set the record straight, t A Happening Calendar Everyone’s a winner. Happy Newborn! due until February 14, she that Emerald was the first Baby girl Emerald was pleased about her early baby born in the Bronx in t Informative Directories Log-in, enter & fi nd out. Adrianne Jordyn Givans arrival. 2013. arrived at 2:02 a.m. on New “For me, it doesn’t mat- “When she grows up Year’s Day making her ter if it was New Years or I want to say Emerald, the first baby born in the any other day. I’m elated,” girl, you came into this SCAN Bronx in 2013. White said. “But I am glad world like a celebrity,” he The tiny four pound, she came on New Years. It said. “You were the first 12.9 ounce baby was born is a fantastic way to start baby born in the Bronx for HERE to mom, Andrea White, the New Year.” 2013.” and dad, Vincent Givans at White said she actu- Emerald is White’s Montefiore Medical Center. ally expected the baby to fourth child. She also has Emerald beat the New be born around Christ- two 18-year-old daughters Year’s clock ahead of Joel mas, because that is when and a 10-year-old son. Javier Sanchez, born at she started to feel contrac- “I am proud to have a Lincoln Hospital at 3:17 tions. New Year’s baby,” White a.m. and weighing in at five “But she never came,” said. pounds, seven ounces. White said. “She waited un- The overall city prin- Just to cover another til New Years.” cess for arriving New Year’s local hospital, Isabella Cap- White, a home health was Kaylee Sayuri Merino, pello came into the world aide, said she began hav- who arrived in the world - well into New Year’s Day, ing severe labor pains at and New York City exactly born at 4:02 p.m. at Jacobi 10:30 p.m. on Monday. at midnight on New Year’s Medical Center and weigh- Dad Vincent said al- Day at Elmhurst General NYParenting Media/CNG ing in at six pounds, three though there have been Hospital in Queens, weigh- ounces. some conflicting reports, ing a healthy six pounds, 11 /:1BSFOUJOH!DOHMPDBMDPNt Although White, 46, he is ecstatic and would like ounces. Lehman High School to be ‘phased-out’ 13, 2013 WWW.BXTIMES.COM january WEEKLY 3 BRONX Several Bronx high schools get ax; Dewitt Clinton saved BY PATRICK ROCCHIO class in September, and prehensive support services “[The DOE’s] whole ed- DeWitt Clinton High gradually decreasing en- to these schools based on ucational model is...a whole School escaped the ax this rollment with each gradu- their needs. Ultimately, we bunch of small high schools week, but Lehman High ating class, with the school know we can better serve with a more personal touch,” School wasn’t as lucky in the shuttered for good in three our students and families said Benedetto. latest round of city school years. with the new options and a While there is merit to phase-outs and closures. Also facing phase-out new start.” that approach, he believes Despite improvement in the Bronx are Jonathan Pols React Lehman is suffering be- on Lehman’s progress re- Levin High School in Mount Local elected officials cause of the DOE’s own bad port for the 2011-12 school Eden, M.S.