Bronx News Roundup for Aug. 31

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.