Politics

UPDATE Bronx Det. Didarul Islam Returned Home to Parkchester & Hochul Calls for National Ban on Assault Rifles

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY
Following the dignified transfer on Monday night, July 28, of slain Det. First Grade Didarul Islam [posthumously promoted from police officer] from Midtown Manhattan, where he was killed by an active shooter earlier that day, several hundred NYPD police officers, detectives, and top-ranking police officials, including Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, joined Bronx residents on Tuesday, July 29, in a guard of honor as his body was transferred into his local mosque at 1203 Virginia Avenue in Parkchester.

Governor Issues State of Emergency re Flood Watch as B/D/M/F Trains Disrupted Due to Outage

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a flood watch for Thursday, July 31, starting at 2:14 a.m. until Friday,  Aug. 1, at 8 a.m., with officials saying flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible in sections of southern Connecticut, northeast New Jersey, and southeast New York, including across the five boroughs, as well as in northern Nassau, northern Westchester, Rockland, Southern Nassau, and Southern Westchester counties.

UPDATE Bronx PO Shot Dead with Four Others, One Critical, Crowdfunding Page Launched for Family

By SÍLE MOLONEY
A young police officer from Parkchester assigned to The Bronx’s 47th Precinct in the north of the borough was fatally shot, along with five other people including the gunman, during an active shooter incident that unfolded in Midtown Manhattan on Monday evening, July 28, at around 6.30 p.m. the NYPD said. Four other people died during the incident, including the gunman, who reportedly shot himself, and one remains in critical but stable condition in hospital, they added.

The Late Sandra Pabon Honored on Home Turf

By SÍLE MOLONEY
On a glorious summer’s day, in an atmosphere infused with joy and laughter, family, friends, elected officials, and numerous colleagues of the late Sandra Pabon, a former NYPD chaplain and Democratic state committeewoman for A.D. 80, gathered together on her birthday, Saturday, July 19, for a street co-naming ceremony in her memory at the corner of East 204th Street and Hull Avenue in Norwood, close to her former home. As reported, Pabon died on June 2, 2023.