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Plumbers Propose Emergency Inspection of All NYCHA Boilers Post-Explosion   After THE CITY revealed the heating plant that blew up in a public housing building last month had not been inspected in years, the Plumbing Foundation says licensed professionals need to step in. This article originally appeared in The City. By Greg B. Smith Bronx Voice  November 21, 2025 BRONX LOCAL NEWS - In response to the recent boiler explosion and chimney collapse at a Bronx public housing development, an association representing licensed plumbers is calling for an emergency inspection sweep of all New York City Housing Authority boilers to be conducted by its members. NYCHA's boilers are supposed to be inspected annually by the Department of Buildings (DOB), the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and NYCHA boiler unit staff who've received training. The Plumbing Foundation City of New York says the authority's 1,000 boilers are not routinely examined by licensed plu...
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Cross Bronx Fiery Crash Victim Identified

A fiery crash on the Cross Bronx Expressway took the life of a New Jersey woman. -Photo courtesy of Citizens App


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

November 29, 2022


BRONX - Police have identified the driver who died in the fiery crash on the Cross Bronx Expressway which was dramatically captured by Citizens App. After rear ending a tractor trailer, the driver waited in her SUV. Then  a second big rig slammed into her car, causing the fatal fireball, while she waited in her car following what could have been a minor accident.


Police have identified the driver who perished in the accident as 49-year-old Shelly Vilsaint of Bayonne, New Jersey. 


At around midnight today, police responded to a report of an accident on the westbound side of the Cross Bronx Expressway at University Avenue. Officers arrived to find three vehicles, two tractor trailers and a Land Rover SUV, engulfed in flames in the center lane of the expressway. 




Vilsaint, who drove the 2019 Land Rover, was pronounced dead at the scene. 


-Photo courtesy of Citizens App




An investigation by the NYPD Highway District's Collision Investigation Squad, determined that the Land Rover slammed into the back of a 2013 tractor trailer. Both Vilsaint and the driver of the tractor trailer stayed in the center lane following the accident. 


Then another tractor trailer slammed into the back of the SUV causing the Land Rover the be pushed into the back of the first tractor trailer and overturn the SUV in the process. The impact caused a fire that soon engulfed all three vehicles. 





The two tractor trailer drivers were not injured and remained at the scene. No arrests have been made and the case is still being investigated. 

 

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