Some 80 protesters lit candles and erected “No Cop Zone” posters at a makeshift shrine on the corner of Hoe Ave. and Aldus St. on Friday evening, June 8, where Abduel Garcia, 24, was shot and killed early last week. On Monday, June 4, around 6:45 p.m., Garcia was found [...]
A spate of shootings It was a grisly spring in Hunts Point and Longwood, with seven shootings between the middle of May and the first week in June. Around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, June 6, police responded to an anonymous tip at the corner of Tiffany and 167 Street. There [...]
In a breakthrough for Hunts Point residents who have fought to see an end to the proliferation of strip clubs on the peninsula, the state’s Liquor Authority ruled not to grant an alcohol permit to a club owner who recently re-applied. The agency on April 24th voted down an application [...]
Representatives of Community Board 2 are furious that state authorities have agreed to grant a liquor license to the owner of Platinum Pleasures, a topless bar set to open soon on Lafayette Ave., despite fierce opposition from board members, community residents and businesses.
By Daniel Bejarano Three murals painted by Hunts Point artist Sharon De La Cruz on The Point’s river campus on Edgewater Road, encourage passersby to document their interactions with police. The murals, inspired in the message “Know Your Rights,” as one of them says in pink, yellow and purple cartoon-like [...]
By Shanae Simmons and Joe Hirsch Chanting “Turn off the heat,” some 50 protesters rallied in front of the Hunts Point strip bar Club Heat on March 2nd, to pressure the club to leave the neighborhood. Community Board 2 members organized the rally, angry that the club and other nudie [...]
In the wake of a series of violent incidents, a judge ordered a controversial strip club in Hunts Point closed. But the club is slated to reopen after its owner agreed to pay a $5,000 fine, setting the stage for a protest residents have called against for in front of the club at 405 Hunts Point Ave. on Friday, March 2nd at 3 p.m.
At 17, Francois Blood received a wake-up call when he was sentenced to 10 to 20 years behind bars. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Blood moved to New York in 1998 and had been in the city for less than two months when he was swept up on charges of armed [...]
Isaac Rivera, 44, learned about the Green Career Center, a workforce development program run by the Osborne Association, while serving time for a drug charge at Rikers Island. When he was transferred to an alternative-to-incarceration facility where inmates are free to leave the premises during the day, as long as [...]