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Community Of Murdered Teen Looks For Ways To End Gang Violence

CBS Sports 03 Jul 2018

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The vicious stabbing death of 15-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz has his community searching desperately for an end to gang violence. “We have a crisis of disconnected youth,” City Councilman Ritchie Torres claims ... They need all that stuff to show them that violence ain’t like that,” Melvin James of East Tremont told CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez....

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Ansonia erases more blight with graffiti removal

New Haven Register 02 Jul 2018

... utility poles and walls on Main, North Main, East Main , North State , Holbrook , Tremont , Liberty and Fourth streets, according to Martin....

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Cools Pools NYC pilot program goes to Mapes Pool

Bronx Times 02 Jul 2018

By Sarah Valenzuela. All nine public pools in the borough have opened for the summer. As children, parents and other Bronxites alike lined up to be the first in the water on Wednesday, June 27, the patrons of the Mapes Pool in East Tremont were treated to some new sights ... “I love the colors, it’s so creative,” said 7-year-old David Rivera before he jumped back in the pool ... E-mail her at svalenzuela@cnglocal.com. ....

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Fair @ The Square Brings Summer Fun

Bronx Times 29 Jun 2018

By Robert Wirsing. Bronxites enjoyed some early summertime fun at the tenth annual Fair @ The Square on Saturday, June 16 along East Tremont and Lanes avenues. The free event presented by Westchester Square Business Improvement District and Image Marketing featured live musical performances, vendors, food and carnival games ... ....

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NYC pools upgraded to be 'more inviting' with colorful paint, lounge chairs

AM New York 26 Jun 2018

Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver is scheduled to kick off the outdoor pool season Tuesday with a visit to East Elmhurst’s Fisher Pool. The pilot’s four other sites include the Mapes Pool in East Tremont, Sheltering Arms Pool in Harlem, West Brighton Pool in Staten Island and the Douglas and DeGraw Pool in Gowanus ... Eat it. Drink it. Do it ... .......

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Be one of the cool kids at NYC's official (and free!) Cool Pools

Metro USA 26 Jun 2018

In addition to the existing programs, which include learning to swim, adaptive swim and senior lessons, Cool Pools will offer additional classes all summer ... Douglas and DeGraw Pool in Gowanus, Brooklyn Fisher Pool in East Elmhurst, Queens Mapes Pool in East Tremont, Bronx Sheltering Arms Pool in Harlem, Manhattan West Brighton Pool on Staten Island Alas, the usual rules apply even to cool kids ... We know what you’re thinking ... ....

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Family calls for boycott of bodega where Bronx teen was fatally stabbed

Democratic Underground 24 Jun 2018

Witnesses told police there had been a fight in front of a bodega at East 183rd and Bathgate Avenue in Tremont that resulted in Lesandro ......

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Bronx teen dies after being attacked with machete

Metro USA 24 Jun 2018

A 15-year-old Bronx boy is dead after being slashed in the neck by a machete in front of a neighborhood bodega. Lesandro Guzman-Feliz was reportedly attacked on Wednesday, June 20 around 11.40 p.m. outside of the store located at East 183rd and Bathgate Avenue in the Tremont section. Witnesses at the scene told police that a fight broke out in front of the store after the Bronx teen was dragged outside ... Barnabas Hospital ... ....

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Art to quell graffiti outside three local high schools

Bronx Times 23 Jun 2018

By Sarah Valenzuela. Addressing the graffiti problem could be as easy as painting something more attractive. In efforts to prevent unsolicited graffiti, Councilman Mark Gjonaj has forwarded a different solution ... bare walls ... Those sites include the blank wall of the overpass across the street from the Lehman Educational Campus on East Tremont Avenue and the bare wall that borders the Christopher Columbus Campus on Bronxdale Avenue ... ....

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TN merchants rally behind BID: heads for CB10 approval

Bronx Times 20 Jun 2018

By Sarah Valenzuela ... In Throggs Neck, the main boundaries of the BID would run from East Tremont Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard, south to Miles and Tremont avenues, plus a handful of businesses north of Bruckner Boulevard as well ... “If you look up and down Tremont Avenue, there are a lot of empty store fronts,” said Gerri Colon, another member of the TNMA ... E-mail her at svalenzuela@cnglocal.com. ....

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NYPD to monitor troublesome E. Bronx intersections

Bronx Times 09 Jun 2018

By Alex Mitchell. Some areas in the east Bronx will be receiving an NYPD security surveillance upgrade. Seven locations have been selected in Morris Park, Pelham Parkway and Throggs Neck for NYPD security camera installations at intersections that have been of concern to residents and police alike. The intersections are ... Peters avenues, East Tremont and Randall avenues, Cruger and Lydig avenues, and the City Island Bridge ... ....

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Fair @ The Square set for Saturday, June 16th

Bronx Times 09 Jun 2018

By Robert Wirsing. This year’s Fair @ The Square will commemorate an important milestone. The tenth annual Fair @ The Square is set for Saturday, June 16 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., rain or shine, along East Tremont and Lane avenues between Westchester Avenue and Silver Street ... Last year’s ‘Passport to the Past’ returns to emphasize two planned 2018 historical trolley tours through Westchester Square ... ....

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2018 Memorial Day events

Akron Beacon Journal 27 May 2018

parade from Linden Avenue and East Main Street to Alliance City Cemetery on West Vine Street; ceremony at 11 a.m ... starts at Eighth Street Northeast and Lincoln Way East, then left onto Erie Street, left onto Tremont, ending at Veterans Memorial Park on First Street Southeast ... starts at Eighth Street Northeast and Lincoln Way East, then left onto Erie Street, left onto Tremont, ending at Veterans Memorial Park on First Street SE....

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