Update: NYPD Equal Employment Opportunities Inspector Reassigned Over Alleged Racist Remarks

Diaz Sr. Favors Keeping Rikers Island Open, Will Vote Against Neighborhood Jail Plan

By SÍLE MOLONEY

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, and Oversight and Investigations Committee Chair Ritchie Torres released a Council Oversight and Investigations report on Nov. 6, containing substantial evidence pointing to the identity of an anonymous online persona responsible for “numerous and repeated unacceptable and disgusting online posts.” In the report, they said the evidence reveals that the anonymous poster, who went by the name “Clouseau” on what was described as a vitriolic public online message board known as “Law Enforcement Rant,” appears to be Deputy Inspector James Francis Kobel. They also said Kobel was the commanding officer of the NYPD’s

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The following is an overview of some of the more pertinent, local election results released so far in the Northwest Bronx general election races (as well as a few others) held on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020. Bronx Judicial Election Updates Wanda Negron won with 54.5 percent of the vote in the general election for New York City Civil Court Bronx 2nd Municipal Court District. There was no incumbent. She previously defeated Linda Poust Lopez in the primary.The count for other Bronx judicial races, including three seats in the Supreme Court 12th Judicial District race has not yet been finalized.

By JOSÉ A. GIRALT

A typical work schedule for Emelia Dokyi Negron consists of leaving her home in Fordham Heights for three weeks and working as a caregiver in Hamden, CT. She returns to her home in the Bronx for a week before starting the cycle again. That was before the pandemic and travel restrictions were implemented. Now, Negron, 52, has spent months working in Hamden with only a single four-day break in August to visit her family in the Bronx. For her work as a live-in caregiver during the pandemic, that has been described as “above and beyond” the call of

By DAWN CLANCY

Norwood’s residents braved the first chill of fall on Tuesday, Nov. 3, to cast their votes on Election Day 2020. Despite the convenience afforded by early voting this year, there was a clear driving force behind a solid local Election Day turnout that saw long lines meandering through parking lots, and pouring out onto nearby streets. That driver? The pandemic. “COVID has leaped over all my other voting issues,” said Jan Vanlier, 55, an executive assistant. “My mental and physical health can’t take another four years of this.” It’s a sentiment that has spread aggressively throughout the Bronx, as

By SÍLE MOLONEY

On Thursday, Nov. 5, at around 9.45 a.m., police responded to a 911 call regarding a man who had been shot in the area opposite 1365 Cromwell Avenue in the Mount Eden section of the Bronx, in the 44th precinct. Upon arrival, officers observed a 20-year-old man, sitting in the front driver side seat of a black Acura, unconscious and unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso. EMS responded and transported the man to NYC Health & Hospitals/Bronx Care, where he was later pronounced deceased. There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing. Later on

By DAVID GREENE

This week, we asked readers their thoughts on early voting and the 2020 presidential election. “I think that the process was very effective, I’m hoping. I watched the press conference of Governor [Andrew] Cuomo, that he’s going forward with this in the future, so I think this was a very effective and efficient way of having this opportunity of early voting. The line was about sixty feet, and I was able to get in and out in twenty minutes. It only took me ten minutes to vote. I think the most critical issue is bringing people together. The divisiveness we’re

By SÍLE MOLONEY

It was reported to police that on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at around 10 a.m., inside Woodlawn subway station on the number 4 subway line, a 58-year-old man was riding the southbound number 4 subway when an unknown male assailant attempted to snatch the victim’s phone from his hands as the doors opened, causing the victim to fall to the ground. The suspect was unable to remove the phone from the victim and subsequently fled the scene on foot, exiting the station to parts unknown. No property was stolen as a result of the incident, but the victim suffered pain

By ELIOT SCHIAPARELLI

Norwood News, in partnership with WFUV radio and BronxNet Television, presents a five-part series on national issues affecting voters during the 2020 presidential election, seen through the local lens of Bronx neighborhood communities. Part five looks at housing and education. It’s no secret that the Bronx has challenges, that its richer neighbors to the North and South do not. It ranks last among New York counties in terms of health outcomes, has some of the poorest school districts, and some of the highest air pollution rates, but it also has people who care fiercely about it, people who want

By AURÉOLE RIBES

Mia Payne, a 16-year-old Bronx student from Talent Unlimited HS, became interested in criminal justice after watching the Ava DuVernay’s documentary “13th,” which outlines the history of the carceral system in the United States, and its correlation with slavery. Being a young Black woman, criminal and racial justice launched her interest in social justice issues, which is how she ended up joining a six-week criminal justice course at YVote. “It was really just crazy to me how you’re being affected, and you don’t even really know,” Payne said. Founded in 2017, YVote is a NY-based, non-profit organization that