January 5-11, 2018 Your Neighborhood — Your News® SERVING PARKCHESTER, HUNTS POINT, FORDHAM SOUTH, GRAND CONCOURSE, FORDHAM NORTH, BRONX NORTH, CO-OP CITY GUNFIRE ENDS TEEN’S PARTY 1 dead, 1 injured at Sweet 16 celebration BY ROBERT WIRSING EMS transported the Harry Thursday morning and after- Police are seeking help in S. Truman High School sopho- noon. solving a fatal drive-by double more to Jacobi Hospital where According to published re- shooting that occurred out- he was pronounced deceased. ports, a Sweet 16 party had side a Bronx catering hall. The second victim, an un- just concluded at the catering According to a NYPD identifi ed 17-year-old, suffered hall when a fi ght broke out just spokesman, 49th Precinct po- a gunshot wound to his left prior to the drive-by shooting. lice offi cers responded to a arm and was transported to Police did not confi rm what call of a male shot on Thurs- Jacobi Hospital in stable con- started the argument or if Wil- day, December 28 at 12:30 a.m. dition. liams and the 17-year-old vic- at Bronxdale Avenue and Kin- As of press time, no arrests tim were the intended targets. sella Street. have been made and no sus- “Maestro’s Caterers is a Upon arrival, police dis- pects were identifi ed in this family owned business which covered two teenage males ongoing investigation. has been a part of the Bronx with gunshot wounds on the Police could not say at this community for many years sidewalk in front of Maestro’s time whether the victims were and has hosted many Sweet Caterers at 1703 Bronxdale Av- guests or party crashers, or 16 parties and nothing of this enue. were just by-standers. nature has ever occurred,” The fi rst victim, Sincear Emergency Service Unit stated a Maestro’s Caterers Williams, a 16-year-old Clason and 49th Precinct police of- spokesman. Point resident, sustained a fi cers were investigating the “Our condolences go out to gunshot wound to his neck and scene in front at Bronxdale the families of those involved was found unconscious and Avenue between Van Nest in that night’s horrifi c act of unresponsive at the scene. and Morris Park avenues on First Bronx Baby Born Continued on Page 54 Lincoln Hospital’s fi rst baby of the New Year was also the fi rst born in the Bronx, the second baby born in NYC and the fi rst born in all of the 11 NYC Health + Hospitals citywide. Baby boy Brysen Fires kill 12, injures dozens Durate Rivera was born on Monday, January 1 at 12:23 a.m. to mother Brooklyn Rivera. He weighed in at 3 pounds 7.2 ounces BY SARAH VALENZUELA homes, lost everything,” said The toddler, who had a his- and is doing well in the hospital’s Neotnatal ICU. In less than a week, two cat- FDNY Commissioner Daniel tory of playing with the stove, Photo courtesy of Lincoln Hospital astrophic fi res ripped through Nigro of the multiple-alarm alerted his mother to the fi re Tremont and Stratton Park. fi re. he started with a scream and On Thursday, December 28, “Our members bravely en- when she realized when hap- TOP BRONX NEWS STORIES a little before 7 p.m. police and tered the building and did ev- pened she left her apartment HOOD fi refi ghters responded to a 911 erything they could and did with the 3-year-old and her BOR - YO The Bronx Times IGH UR call about a fi re in an apart- save a number of residents, other 2-year-old child and left E N On-Line $-"44*'*&%4'035)&#30/9 N E R W ment building at 2363 Pros- this loss is unprecedented.” the door open, according to U O S Your world is pect Avenue. The accident has been Commissioner Nigro. Y ® 24/7... NOW Though emergency crews called the deadliest fi re in The fi re spread quickly arrived about three minutes New York City since the Happy through the doorway and up so are we. after receiving the call, the Lands fi re in 1990. the staircase, trapping some blaze claimed the lives of 12 After investigation, fi re tenants in thick smoke and ÜÜÜ°LÝÌiðV people including four chil- marshals discovered the blaze fi re while others were able to dren, a teenager and a recently was caused by a 3-year-old boy reach the fi re escape in noth- 5)&-"5&45#30/94103544$03&4 enlisted Army recruit. playing with the burners on ing more but the clothes on “We have people who have the stove of a fi rst fl oor apart- '00%t)&"-5)t5&$)/0-0(: lost their lives, lost their ment. 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Crowley said in a state- Community leaders are “We cannot just keep build- ment that the proposal would meeting and advocating for ing and building and not have do “much to improve our decking over the Bruckner appropriate parking and infra- communities and neighbor- Expressway from between Lo- structure,” said Marano. “Yes hoods.” gan/Crosby avenues and East it will cost money, but will it “This is a state issue and Tremont Avenue. Revere and cost less money now than ten I’ve contacted the NYS De- Hollywood avenues are also or 15 years from now.” partment of Transportation being considered. The push to get the decking to push for a study to examine The decking proposal has project started when Marano the feasibility of funding this been before Community Board was CB 10 chairman. project,” stated Crowley. 10 in recent years and is pres- The reasons for supporting Andrew Chirico, WLCA ently being championed by the decking idea include the board member, said that the the Waterbury-LaSalle Com- revival of the Bruckner Boule- The proposal of local community leaders would see part of Bruckner Ex- decking would facilitate move- munity Association, which vard commercial strip, safety ment of fi re trucks in and out recently joined CB 10 board and the movement of traf- pressway near of East Tremont, Logan and Crosby avenues, and possibly of Engine 89/Ladder 50, which members at a meeting with fi c near an expanding P.S.