Gotham City Panthers Founder Aims to Uplift Local Youth Through Basketball

By JULIAN NAZAR

51-year-old Eric King has observed that the parks near Fordham Manor aren’t as busy as they used to be. “When I was young, it was a different era,” King said. “The kids were outside playing freeze tag. People were playing basketball on the basketball courts.” Nowadays, he sees kids walking down the street, cell phone in hand, texting. “Everyone in this computer age is comatose,” King said. “They are walking, living robots. The energy is not there to the level it was back in my time.” To address this issue, in December 2020, King launched an amateur, youth

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah announced that the former superintendent of an apartment building in Yonkers was sentenced to State prison for assaulting a female tenant with an axe. Anan Badan, 59, of Yonkers, was sentenced on April 28, to three years in State prison, with three years of post-release supervision. A jury convicted Badan after trial of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, both felonies. According to the investigation, on Nov. 2, 2020, at approximately 9:45 p.m., Badan confronted the tenant at her apartment about a

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Wednesday, April 27, that a Bronx woman and her boyfriend were charged with murder and manslaughter in the context of the June 2021 death of the woman’s eight-year-old, autistic son. According to the investigation, the defendants, Sharay Barney, 30, of East 166th Street in Morrisania, who was the biological mother of the child, and Michael Ransom, 33, of the same address and who was the child’s stepfather, were the sole caretakers of Joseph Barney, 8, a child who was autistic and non-verbal. On June 1, 2021, Joseph was found

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The NYPD have made an arrest following a hit & run incident in Wakefield that left a 49-year-old man with critical injuries. It was reported to police that on Friday, April 22, at 8.15 a.m., the person arrested allegedly stole a white 2002 Mitsubishi flatbed truck that had been parked in front of a lumber yard located at 4527 White Plains Road. At 8.17 a.m., as the vehicle was traveling northbound on White Plains Road, it struck a 49-year-old man who had been standing beside his vehicle, a grey Chevy Silverado pick-up truck. The

By SILE MOLONEY

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Tuesday, April 26, that a Norwood man has been sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to criminal possession of a weapon for possessing six “ghost guns,” assault-style rifles that he built from parts, along with components to assemble two more guns. According to the investigation, on November 20, inside the Norwood home of Peter Rivera, 67, the defendant, of 300 Reservoir Place, a search warrant was executed in which investigators recovered six completed assault-style rifles, none with serial numbers, as well as firearm components capable of being assembled

By SILE MOLONEY

A 30-year-old man has been arrested following an assault on a 79-year-old bus passenger aboard the BX12 bus according to police. The NYPD had been asking for the public’s help locating the man seen in the attached photo and video who was sought in connection with the incident that occurred aboard the bus traveling in the area south of Co-op City. Police said, “On Saturday, April 16, 2022 at 15.28 hours (3.28 p.m.) aboard a BX12 MTA bus in the vicinity of Bartow Avenue and Edson Avenue, an unidentified disorderly male spat at the victim, a 79-year-old

By SILE MOLONEY

The NYPD is asking for the public’s help identifying the individuals seen in the attached video who are sought in connection to a reckless endangerment incident which occurred in transit on the number 4 subway line. It was reported to police that on Saturday, April 16, at approximately 1.50 a.m., an unidentified individual displayed a gun on a northbound number 4 subway approaching the Fordham Road subway station in the Fordham Manor section of The Bronx and discharged it multiple times. No injuries were reported. The video recording of the incident is attached. As reported by The Gothamist,

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Friday, April 22, that two men were charged with attempted murder, assault, and additional charges for the shooting of a woman with whom they had engaged in prostitution, inside the Opera House Hotel, located at 436 East 149th Street in Mott Haven. Clark said both defendants, Kadeem Thompson, 29, of Linden Boulevard, Queens, and Robert Harris, 34, of Livonia Avenue, Brooklyn, have been arraigned on a 25-count indictment. The list of charges included attempted murder in the second-degree, three counts of first-degree assault, three counts of second-degree assault, two counts

By SÍLE MOLONEY & DAVID GREENE

Police have charged a 36-year-old man in the ongoing murder investigation following an early morning fatal shooting in Norwood. On Friday, April 22, at approximately 1.28 a.m., police responded to a 911 call regarding a man who had been shot near the corner of East Gun Hill Road and Webster Avenue in Norwood. Upon arrival, officers observed a 34-year-old man, unconscious and unresponsive, with a gunshot wound to the torso. EMS responded to the location and transported the victim to Saint Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. A 36-year-old male, a person of interest, was taken