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  With weeks left before local boards recommend gaming sites to the state, neighbors of Ferry Point Park and Citi Field lined up to make competing cases for construction jobs and against gambling. This article originally appeared in The City. By Haidee Chu and Jonathan Custodio Bronx Voice September 11, 2025 BRONX - Community members, business owners and union representatives exchanged heated arguments for and against two controversial casino projects at public hearings in Queens and The Bronx Tuesday evening — taking their last swings at influencing local community advisory committees that will decide in less than three weeks whether casino bids in their neighborhoods advance toward potential state approval. At a nonprofit community center in Throggs Neck in The Bronx, 88 speakers signed up to share their thoughts about a $4 billion plan by Ba...
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NYPD Re-Releases Homicide Video of Gunman Firing into Parked Car

A gunman opened fire into a parked car on Beach Avenue in 2020. Cops are hoping new information can help them crack this cold case.


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 11, 2022 


BRONX - Investigators have re-released video from a fatal shooting in a two-year-old cold case in the Bronx in the hopes new tipsters will come forward. 





The NYPD released the video which shows a gunman firing point blank into a parked car on Beach Avenue in 2020. Anthony Martin, 27, was gunned down in the car.





At around 8 pm on August 15, 2020, Martin was sitting inside a sedan parked int front of 710 Beach Avenue in Soundview. Video from a nearby apartment building shows a man in a white T-shirt walking on the sidewalk. 


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When he gets to the car Martin was sitting in, the man pulls a gun out of his waistband and repeatedly fires into the car, striking Martin in the chest. The gunman then fled on foot.



Cops a say man jumped into the car and drove until he flagged down a police officer.  



Martin was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center but he was pronounced dead.





 

Anyone with information should call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls remain confidential.

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