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Capt. Emilio Melendez gets ready to lead a meeting with neighborhood coordination officers at the 50th Precinct as the new commanding officer, succeeding Deputy Inspector Terence O’Toole. Melendez previously served as executive officer in various higher-crime precincts, as well as in the U.S. Air Force.
Shakeup at the top brings ‘fresh blood’ to 5-0
There is a new top cop at the 50th Precinct. more
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Window burglar wrangles cat
Even big city criminals probably find themselves lonesome now and again, longing for a feline friend. more
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Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, center, and members of his staff gather and carry boxes of packaged food to several cars as part of its annual holiday canned food drive for Thanksgiving, intended for the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center and the Saint Francis of Rome Food Pantry. A woman police identified as Tamika West, 44, was arrested Dec. 4 after allegedly sneaking into the Assemblyman’s Kingsbridge district office through a ground-floor window.
Homeless burglar penetrates politico’s window, nabbed
A reputedly crafty, if brazen, homeless woman targeted Kingsbridge Tuesday morning, allegedly slipping in through the window of a neighborhood Santa — and a stalwart of the local Democratic establishment — to get to his holiday gift-giving stash. more
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Electric bikes offer an efficient mode of transportation, according to riders and some proponents like city council transportation committee chair Ydanis Rodriguez, who’s pushing a package of bills to legalize them. But that could spark a City Hall brawl, where Mayor Bill de Blasio has decried them as dangerous and insists state law bans electric bicycles that operate with a throttle.
Councilmen push e-bike legalization after crackdown
Joseph Bohm claims there’s no better way to zip through Kingsbridge and Riverdale than on his electric bicycle. more
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Fredy Loeser adjusts his cap in his eponymously named eatery on West 231st Street. Loeser’s daughter, Pamela Halpern, has mounted a long-running — but now seemingly stalled — campaign to rename West 231st Street after her father’s beloved eatery.
A street named for Loeser’s Deli? It’s now up to CB8
The topic has simmered for some time, kicked around from one committee to another, popping up at one meeting, resurfacing sometime later elsewhere. more
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Kingsbridge woman's death becomes community's sixth homicide this year
Details are still sketchy, but a Kingsbridge woman's death  Nov. 18 has become the community's sixth homicide of the year. more
Woman, 89, killed while crossing Riverdale Avenue
An elderly woman died just outside her home near the College of Mount Saint Vincent Saturday, after she was hit by a car. more
Franca Martino-Starvaggi checks up on a patient at the Schervier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Martino-Starvaggi works as the director of social work. She has helped others for more than three decades.
Celebrating the caregivers who make long lives better
Caregivers are part of the many things that help the community go round. more
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William Clyde, executive vice president and provost of Manhattan College, responds to a student’s question about commencement ceremonies during a meeting of the school’s senate. Students were initially concerned not only about where commencement will be held, but also the reduction of available tickets from three per student to two.
No room at gym for graduates?
When members of Manhattan College’s Class of 2019 first stepped onto the Riverdale campus as freshmen, they knew they were part of the largest graduating class the 165-year-old school had ever seen. more
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Amber Charter aims for Lin-Manuel film
The Amber Charter School invites the neighborhood on a movie date Dec. 16 with Mary Poppins while at the same time raising money for the school. more
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