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August 25, 2013 Your Neighborhood — Your News® E. Bronx burglar on COLUMBUS the lam BY BOB KAPPSTATTER A hulking career criminal released twice without bail after HIGH SETS being arrested for an east Bronx burglary spree has gone on the lam. Police said Nestor “Frankie” Marrero failed to show up in court for a scheduled hearing on Aug. 12, with a new arrest war- rant awaiting him for yet an- FINAL SAIL other burglary. He may have fl ed to the Do- minican Republican, cops said, Soto Edwin by Photo Final school year for Columbus High School where extradition laws are lax. A neighborhood fi xture BY DAVID CRUZ available, they won’t have dated classes for high- around Morris Park and It’s already been writ- Advanced Placement needs students. This year Throggs Neck, Marrero was ar- ten off long before it’s set courses, special electives will be her toughest. rested three times in June and to close. or art classes. For instance, she no August, charged with burglar- With the famed Chris- Teaching resources at longer has an art teacher, izing local homes - twice with topher Columbus High the school have been re- despite some students still elderly or handicapped victims MAKING A SPLASH ON GLEBE! School going into its fi nal duced to a skeleton level. required to fulfi ll their inside. school year, the senior Principal Lisa Maffei- art credit to graduate. But at his two arraignments, One-year-old Laylah Lopez finds some relief from the class has already lost. Fuentes has had to resort She’ll reluctantly force judges released him without mid-August heat during Glebe Avenue’s annual block While the remaining to making something out students to take a fi ltered bail, despite Marrero being a party, held on Saturday, August 3. students will have its of nothing, getting cre- predicate felon and prosecutors state-mandated classes ative to ensure state-man- Continued on Page 4 asking for high bail. An earlier story on Marrero’s arrest incorrectly listed Acting Supreme Court Justice Efrain Alvarado as one of the judges. Benedetto warns of danger on TN Expressway Police said Marrero, 39, a hulking 6-foot-5, 350 pound for- BY PATRICK ROCCHIO Neck Bridge tolls by using the highway near the bridge tolls. mer area window company em- Motorists are looking for a exit ramp near Harding and When they get near the ploye used the repairman ruse shortcut onto the Throgs Neck Pennyfi eld avenues in Throggs bridge, they fi nd a blocked and to gain entry to the homes of Bridge to beat expressway traf- Neck. closed on-ramp and choose to elderly victims to rip them off fi c, and using an off-ramp to the “This is totally unacceptable use the exit ramp instead of dou- while they weren’t looking. service road as an on-ramp. and an outrageous and danger- bling back to a legal entrance. Detective Bobby Rogers of the An east Bronx elected offi cial ous practice,” stated Benedetto, Making a left-hand turn from a 45th Precinct detective unit said is warning about the possibility “NYPD and the TNTA need to south-bound service road lane Marrero had been fi red from a of a head-on collision at Exit 9 address this situation immedi- onto a nearby on-ramp is impos- local window company and ei- off the Throgs Neck Express- ately before someone is hurt or sible because it is closed during ther remembered some of his way because of the practice. is killed.” most times. jobs or took work slips with him Assemblyman Michael Making matters worse are The legal on-ramp was “so he had an excuse to enter the Benedetto is calling on the Tri- severe back-ups on I-295 be- closed during most times to Seen above is the wrong way to enter homes, supposedly to check on borough Bridge and Tunnel Au- cause of construction on the avoid the practice of motorists the Throgs Neck Expressway near the the windows.” thority and the NYPD to put a bridge. 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BY DAVID CRUZ Throggs Neck, Morris owner Alex Douglas, who With help from the Park and Castle Hill,” was once part of an effort borough’s Chamber of said Lenny Caro, presi- to start a merchant asso- Commerce, Boston Road dent of the Chamber. ciation years ago, though merchants in the north He met with a small interest fi zzled. Bronx are working to group of eager local busi- “It was like three or form their own improve- nessmen on Tuesday, Aug. four people doing all the ment association. 20 to discuss the plan. footwork, and we got dis- The Bronx Chamber “At this point we couraged,” said Douglas. has been awarded a grant thought it was time to “We’re hoping to rekindle to start the association move up here ino the that interest.” along a stretch of the road Bronx,” said Caro. But this time the ef- in Baychester complete He and chamber fort has received major with mom and pops and staffer Marques Payne support from Bruce Ben- big chains. joined Councilman Andy dell, co-owner of the lo- Avenue NYC, an initia- King on Aug. 16 to visit cal Toyota, Hyundai and tive sponsored through the independent hair sa- Ford dealerships running Steve Risso (Teddy Nissan), Bruce and Harold Bendell (brothers and co-founders of City World Toyota the city Small Busi- lons, auto equipment and along the thoroughfare. ness Services, provided clothing stores, working “We think we can dealership), and Bronx Chamber of Commerce president Lenny Caro embrace new effort to create the a $20,000 grant to the to convince owners to bring more traffi c to this Boston Road Merchants Association chamber to kickstart the take part in their effort. area,” said Geller. effort. “We’re trying to form Location is certainly clude tax benefi ts, mar- Chair Joseph Kelleher, around. They have one year this merchant associa- advantageous for mer- keting incentives and the speaking of establishing “They’ve been let to convince Boston Rd. tion on Boston Road with chants along the busy chance, ultimately, to be- a BID. “Property values down a couple of times businesses between 211th the hope of of enhancing strip, resembling a come a bonafi de, city-sup- are going to go up with cause other people have Street and Baychester the businesses,” has been freeway along some ported business improve- it.” picked it up and not fol- Ave. to take part in the Payne’s pitch to store stretches. ment district. Caro, ever the opti- lowed through,” said association that could be owners. Forming a merchant “The net result is you mist, is convinced area Caro. “We’re going to a boon for their business. Among those paid a association comes with attract more retailers to businesses will embrace give them a good year of “We’ve done it in visit was Lipkin Shoes various perks that in- the area,” said Chamber the initiative this time support.” Bronxites pan Palisades plan New offi ce tower will harm views: pols
BY PATRICK ROCCHIO showed up to protest. Concerned Bronx “The Palisades are a elected offi cials and ad- timeless treasure that vocates are taking a exists nowhere else in negative view an offi ce the world,” said Engel. tower plan that would “It is unheard of for a spoil Bronx views of the large city like New York pristine New Jersey Pali- to have such a dramatic sades. and beautiful view of na- An artist rendering of LG’s proposed facility in Englewood Cliffs, NJ An electronics manu- ture. LG has to be a better is seen here. courtesy of LG Electronics facturer recently won a corporate citizen and not court fi ght to put up a 143- desecrate this site with foot offi ce building north this building.” the same size - roughly Hill.” of the George Washing- Klein argued the plan 27 acres - as Wave Hill, LG spokesman John ton Bridge that would vi- Elected offi cals discuss the plan on Thursday, August 15. will set a bad precedent the borough’s botani- Taylor said that its pro- olate a height restriction courtesy of Senator Klein’s offi ce that may lead to destruc- cal garden and cultural posed complex will be preventing new buildings tion of views of the Pali- institution on the cliffs built a quarter-mile back from reaching above the sades as Bronxites know above the Hudson River, from the cliffs on private tree line. held by Bergen County Congressman Eliot them. said Bonn, noting that property, and is expected This kept pristine Superior Court, Bronx Engel, Senator Jeff Klein, “This is not just about the fi rm could easily re- to be a major driver of views of the mountains elected offi cials gathered Senator Adriano Espail- one company, or one build- confi gure the offi ce com- economic development intact for visitors to cul- Thursday, Aug. 15 at the lat, and Assemblyman ing. Erecting a building plex’s design. for the area. tural institutions like College of Mount Saint Jeff Dinowitz, Riverdale’s that will tower above the “The founding family “LG Electronics’ new Wave Hill in Riverdale, Vincent to call on LG Community Board 8 treetops will set an ir- of Wave Hill was very in- North American head- and for Bronx nature lov- Electronics Corporation chairman Robert Fanuzzi reversible course for the strumental in originally quarters is a $300 mil- ers. to build their new North and Wave Hill executive permanent destruction of protecting the Palisades lion project that will not After a zoning vari- American headquarters director Claudia Bonn, the Palisades. If we allow in the early 1900s,” said ‘harm the Palisades,’ as ance granted in Engle- horizontally, instead of along with activists from one – many will follow.” Bonn. “So it is really you are hearing from the wood Cliffs, NJ was up- vertically. both sides of the Hudson, LG has a campus about apart of the DNA of Wave opposition,” he argued.
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