Obituaries

Kingsbridge Heights Fire in Multiple Dwelling Building Kills One Woman & Injures Two Others

By SÍLE MOLONEY & DAVID GREENE
Video courtesy of Citizen A 57-year-old woman has died following a fire which broke out in a multiple dwelling in Kingsbridge Heights on Monday.   Police said they responded on Monday, Dec. 20, at approximately 10.34 a.m., to a 911 call regarding a fire at 2835 Webb Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights, located in the 50th precinct.   Upon arrival, police encountered FDNY personnel taking measures to put out the blaze. Once the fire had been extinguished at around 11.56 a.m., FDNY personnel discovered an unconscious and unresponsive 57-year-old woman inside Apartment 2B. EMS were at the scene and pronounced the


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Funeral Details Announced for Former Salesian High School Student and Coach, Paul Sousa

By SÍLE MOLONEY
  Norwood News has been informed by officials of New Rochelle’s Salesian High School of the death of former student and coach, Paul Sousa.   “The Salesian Family is deeply saddened to announce the loss of the Salesian baseball star and former coach, Paul Sousa (’72),” the notice read. “Paul was an incredible athlete, coach and friend.” Officials at the school, located at 148 East Main Street in New Rochelle, NY said Sousa’s two sons, Paul Sousa Jr. (’98) and Scott Sousa (’03), also attended Salesian High School.   The following notice has been posted to the Pelham Funeral Home


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Family & Friends Mourn the Passing of Kathleen A. Benjamin, Mother of Ex-Assemblyman Michael Benjamin

By MICHAEL BENJAMIN
Former Bronx assemblyman, Michael Benjamin, announced that his mother, Kathleen A. Benjamin, née Conton, passed away at Calvary Hospital (Morris Park) on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, at the age of 86. A native of Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Kathleen came to the Bronx in 1956 and later married husband, Ray Benjamin, in October 1957. She resided at Tracey Towers in the Jerome Park section of the borough, on the border with Norwood.   After three children and ten years as a “stay-at-home,” mother, Kathleen became a para-professional at the school her boys attended, P.S. 130X, on Prospect Avenue


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Lehman College and iMentor Launch Program in Honor of English Faculty Member Alice Griffin 

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Lehman College is partnering with the national mentoring organization iMentor to launch a new program that will provide 260 freshmen and transfer students, who are already enrolled in one of the organization’s high school programs, with one-on-one mentoring and support to help them excel academically and graduate college in four years.   The Alice Griffin Scholars Program is named in honor of Alice V. Griffin, Ph.D., who taught at Lehman for 42 years until her retirement in 1991. Griffin was instrumental in founding Lehman’s graduate English program and served as its director. She was also the mother of iMentor founder,


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CCRB Recommends Discipline for 65 Officers Accused of Misconduct during BLM Protests

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), released new data on Monday, Oct. 18, on the 313 complaints from the Black Lives Matter protests. So far, CCRB officials said they have completed 127 full investigations resulting in 42 substantiated complaints of misconduct containing 91 allegations against 65 officers.   The agency recommended charges and specifications, the highest level of discipline for the most serious allegations of misconduct, against 37 officers. Each of these officers will face an administrative trial run by the CCRB’s Administrative Prosecution Unit (APU), and if found guilty, could face loss of vacation days, suspension,


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Statement from Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark on Gen. Colin Powell

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D Clark released the following statement following the announcement of the death of Gen. Colin Powell on Monday, Oct. 18. “Today we lost an extraordinary American to COVID-19, a person who dedicated his life to the national security of this great country. Colin Powell was a son of the South Bronx, who studied at Morris High School, attended a CUNY college, joined the U.S. Army and went on to become the first Black U.S. National Security Adviser, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State,” she said.   “Even after achieving so much,


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UPDATE Bronxites Honor Victims of Sept. 11th Attacks, 20 Years Later

By DAVID GREENE
On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Bronxites gathered at various memorial events across the borough to honor the memories of those lost during the September 11th attacks in 2001. They joined family members, friends, and strangers across the City to pause and remember the 2,977 people killed when two hijacked jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan twenty years ago, as well as those who subsequently died as a result of the events of that day.   On Saturday, Sept. 11, Bronxites gathered at the 9/11 memorial monument, erected on the grounds of Jacobi Hospital on Pelham


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Bronx Serviceman, Killed During the Korean War, Accounted for 70 Years Later

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The U.S. Defense Prisoner of War (POW) / Missing in Action (MIA) Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Monday, Sept. 20, that U.S. Army 1st Lt. Anthony R. Mazzulla, 26, of The Bronx, New York, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for on May 28, 2020.   Though Mazzulla was accounted for in May of last year, DPAA said his family only recently received a full briefing on his identification, which is why details of his status are only being released to the public now.   In late 1950, Mazzulla was a member of Company B, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th


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