Bronx News Roundup, Dec. 7

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On to the news:

A Bronx woman, Suejas Estrada, was killed in a three car crash on the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx on Friday afternoon. One of the cars in the crash was driven by former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, who was uninjured.

The Bronx has a new tourist attraction: 1157 Wheeler Avenue, the site where Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant, was killed by 41 police bullets in 1999. Tour buses frequently visit the site, which is now decorated with a mural.

A Bronx cop in the 43rd precinct was busted on Friday for stealing and transporting cocaine.

Last Thursday, Bronx BP Ruben Diaz, Jr. announced the creation of the Bronx Public Housing Advisory Council. This council, made up of 50 tenant association leaders, will work to improve the issues of Bronx residents who live in Housing Authority buildings.

The four men arrested for plotting to bomb a Bronx synagogue in Riverdale in May will be tried in federal court in June. All of the defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge.

A Bronx priest in Castle Hill designs an organic clothing line, Goods of Conscience. His clothes were recently featured in Vogue. All profits from the clothing line go to benefit victims of domestic violence in the Bronx and poor communities in Guatemala.

A teacher at Bronx Lebanon Hospital's public high school was fired after she took off 30 days to recover from a violent attack by one of her mentally ill patients. The teacher is now suing the city.

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Police are searching for a man who has targeted, attacked, and robbed at least three women in their apartment buildings in Norwood. The attacks have taken place in apartment buildings on Valentine Avenue, Strong Street, and Creston Avenue.

A public hearing on proposed MTA changes, which would eliminate the Bx 34, will be held tonight at 6 p.m. at Lehman College in the Lovinger Theater.

Firefighter Brendan Cawley, 35, survivor of the 2005 “Black Friday” fire blames the building’s tenants for the deaths of his colleagues, Lt. Curtis Meyran, 46, and Firefighter John Bellew, 37.

The family members of Amadou Diallo reflect ten years after his death. Diallo’s case became infamous after it was reported that police fired 41 times at him, even though he was unarmed at the time. Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, West Africa, and Soundview resident, was 23 years old when he was killed.

A survey by the Citizen’s Committee of New York City finds that Bronxites are the least satisfied with their borough.

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Opposition to Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan is growing, according to a Quinnipiac University poll, and it's strongest in the Bronx, where 74 percent of residents are giving it the thumbs down.

Details of a new exhibit coming to the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and featuring work from Quisqueya Henríquez, a Cuban artist, have been announced.

One of the officers involved in the 1999 Bronx shooting death of unarmed Amadou Diallo, has lost his bid to carry a gun and be reinstated as a full-status police officer, according NY1.

The Daily News has a story about a murder-suicide in Williamsbridge last night. Earlier this month, there a similar tragedy in Mount Hope when Mabelyn Arriola, 18, was stabbed to death by an ex-boyfriend who then killed himself. As the Village Voice later pointed out, Arriola's death was largely ignored by the city's media, who in the same week wrote dozens of articles about the Greenwich Village murder (again at the hands of a boyfriend) of Boitumelo McCallum, the beautiful daughter of an NYU professor. It's always interesting what makes the papers and what doesn't. In a recent (and excellent) editorial the New York Times explored another case of selective news-telling. (You'll need a TimeSelect account to read it).

Talking of what gets attention and what doesn't, feel free to link to any Bronx stories we might have missed in this news roundup, in the comments section.