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Friday, June 18, 2010

Bronx News Roundup, June 18

Bronx teens Rashawn Birthwright, 17, and Javon Maldonado, 17, were stabbed to death yesterday in two unrelated incidents. Maldonado died on the doorstep of the NYPD's 41st Precinct station house in Hunts Point hours after Birthwright was stabbed on Gunther Avenue and died at Jacobi Medical Center. The Daily News has the story.

12-year-old Bronx twins Jason and Corey Grant have started a Facebook-page campaign to persuade LeBron James to play for the New York Knicks. In four days, the site has tracked one million votes in support of LeBron's switch.

After giving birth three times with the help of Bronx midwives, New York state assemblywoman Amy Paulin is seeking to pass a bill that will afford other women a similar, though safer, experience. The bill would repeal the requirement that midwives have a “written practice agreement” with a doctor or hospital, thus allowing them to travel and still have access to doctors and medical facilities.

"Reflections of a Heart," a play about black soldiers who fought in World War II, depicts Isaac Woodard Jr.'s experience in the post-war Bronx. Read the full review here.

The Parks Department and the Bronx River Alliance is inviting New Yorkers to paddle down the Bronx River with their dads this Sunday during the Father's Day Paddle. Participants will canoe through Bronx River Forest, the Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo. Find out more here. [The event appears to be sold out, but you can sign up for the waiting list.]

Former boxing champ Juan La Porte will bring fighters from his Bronx gym to an amateur boxing card hosted by Billy Costello. Now battling lung cancer, Costello continues to spotlight NYC fighters and host matches on NYC turf.

Obama has chosen Rev. Susan Johnson Cook, the senior pastor of Bronx Christian Fellowship Baptist Church in New York and executive director of the Multi-Ethnic Center Inc., for the position of ambassador for international religious freedom. The Catholic Review has the full story.

Bronx resident Edda Lopez-Lennards was featured in the Daily News this morning for her housing struggle involving the Bank of America. Read Norwood News' coverage here.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the premiere episode of Comedy Central's 'Portable Lounge,' a roaming online talk show featuring rising comedians, will take place in the Bronx. Here's more on this show.

2 comments:

  1. Why do people refuse to acknowledge that Edda Lopez made out like a bandit in 2006 and walked away from her refi with a cool $100,000 in her pocket? What happened to that dough? I guess it doesn't fit so neatly into the narrative of big bad lenders swindling a poor disabled widow. Ms. Lopez seems shrewd enough to the play the hell out of the media on this one.

    Re: Edda Lopez

    Why would anyone think her payments would go down when she walked away from a refi with $100,000 in her pocket?

    And if her employer terminated her due to her illness (as the Daily News indicates)[http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2009/02/28/2009-02-28_hope_lifts_bronx_woman_besieged_by_crise.html] why didn't she sue them for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act?

    http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/03/04/2009-03-04_accrediteds_formula_for_loan_payoff_on_m-3.html

    What's the ultimate goal here? How can one unemployed, disabled woman afford this house on $2,000/month disability? Wouldn't it make more sense for her to downsize if it is just she and her son? How much does the son make?

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  2. Ignorant comments like the above come from a lot of misinformation. I DID NOT walk away with $100,000. I WAS NOT terminated for disability but as a matter of safety, or so they alleged. I worked at a law firm, they knew what to do so as not to be liable.

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