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Bronx and Queens Casino Bids Spark Clashing Testimony

  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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Cop Car Crash Hits 8 Pedestrians

NYPD Patrol Car Mounts Sidewalk, Hits Civilians in Wild Crash

Police investigating a multi-person accident in which a police car mounted the curb and struck 8 pedestrians. -Citizens App


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 6, 2022


BRONX - A child and grandmother were among the eight people struck when a marked police car lost control and hopped the curb while responding to a 911 call.  



Cops say the case is under investigation but believe the squad car was cut off or was struck by another vehicle, which led to crash. 


Two officers were also injured in the crash. 


At around 3:15 pm, a marked police SUV was responding a 911 call of a grand larceny in progress. At some point the driver lost control and the SUV mounted the curb at Hoe and Westchester Avenues. The truck 

struck eight pedestrians before hitting a pole. Reports say a child and her grandmother were struck. 


Their condition and the condition of the other six pedestrians is unknown at this time. 


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