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Cuomo Details How He’d Ditch $16 Billion Borough Jail Project and Rebuild Rikers Instead

  An architect’s renderings of “humane” new detention facilities for the island intrigued a Chinatown audience opposed to a planned new jail tower in their neighborhood.  This article originally appeared in The City. By Claudia Irizarry Aponte Bronx Voice October 16, 2025   Follow @x NEW YORK - Standing near the Chinatown site of a proposed 16-story new detention center, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday detailed his proposal to scrap a planned shutdown of the Rikers Island jail complex if he is elected mayor. “My plan is to rebuild Rikers,” said Cuomo at the New York Chinese Community Center on Mott Street. “The island is fine. The island did nothing wrong.” By law, Rikers must stop functioning as an incarceration site by 2027. Four borough jails with capacity for about more than 4,100 people are either under construction or soon scheduled to be near courthouses in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx, under a long-in-the works project whose price tag has ...
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Gunman Sought in Scooter Shooting - NYCHA Worker Gunned Down in Bronx

VIDEO - Gunman Fires From Back of Moped

Police are looking for the gunman who opened fire from the back of a moving moped in the Bronx. The gunman killed a NYCHA maintenance worker.


By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

October 18, 2022 


BRONX - Police are still looking for the gunman who opened fire from a moving moped and sprayed part of a Bronx NYCHA development with bullets. A maintenance worker was gunned down in the shooting.




The NYPD released video of a man opening fire from the back of a moving moped on August 19. At around 4 pm the moped drove past the rear of 700 East 156th Street. Cops say 49-year-old Nelson Mattocks was on his lunch break in the park area behind St. Mary’s Park Houses when the man on the moped opened fire. 






Mattocks was shot in the face. The victim was rushed to Lincoln Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. It is unclear if Mattocks was the intended target. 


Police already arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with the shooting. The suspect’s name was not released due to his age. 


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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