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Last Minute Valentine Sale!

NEW YORK, Feb. 11- Last chance to get your Valentine a last minute gift that looks like something more than a 99 Cents store rose.

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Cars, accessories for sale

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NEW YORK, Feb 10- Sale on remote car starters.

PLUS sales on scores of cars

and accessories.

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Deal of the Day

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Clearance Sale!

NEW YORK, Feb 10- Save $100 and more on women's tops and coats.

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Women's outerwear SALE

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NEW YORK, Feb. 9- Deals on women's outerwear. Some items cut in half.

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Car Sale

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:47:30 PST

Presidents Sale

NEW YORK, Feb. 9- Get a car for only $89 - $99/ month.

Deals on Nissans, Fords, Hyundai, Toyotas.

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Deal of the Day

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Great deals for mommy and baby

NEW YORK, Feb. 9- Get Baby Tees only $3. Get deals on cookware

and boots for mom.

$20 Instant rebate on cookware.

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Deal of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:08:31 PST

Presidents’ Day Car Sale

NEW YORK, Feb. 7- Great deals on new and used cars AND accessories.

50% off rims

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Baychester News: Community comes together to discuss cop shooting

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:15:42 PST

Baychester News: Community comes together to discuss cop shooting: COMMUNITY BOARD NEWS N’ VIEWS by Father Richard F. Gorman Chairman Community Board #12 (The Bronx) The Carriage House at our T...

Community comes together to discuss cop shooting

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:15:18 PST

COMMUNITY BOARD

NEWS N’ VIEWS

by

Father Richard F. Gorman

Chairman

Community Board #12 (The Bronx)

The Carriage House at our Town Hall Headquarters of Community Board #12 (The Bronx) sees any number of gatherings and activities each and every week. This Saturday morning past, 4 February 2012 at 10:00 a.m.., one of the saddest meetings ever called was convened.

At the behest of our Assembly Member, The Honorable Carl E. Heastie, Community Board #12 (The Bronx) opened our Town Hall Carriage House to him, Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz, State Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson, Council Member Larry B. Seabrook, Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson, Commanding Officer of Patrol Borough Bronx Assistant Chief Carlos M. Gomez, a number of leaders of our local community-based organizations (C.B.O.’s), and members of the public in order to discuss the tragic shooting of Ramarly Graham a few days prior and a mere stone’s throw down East 229TH Street from Town Hall itself. I was proud to note the presence of nearly one-third of my Community Board colleagues along with our District Manager, Carmen L. Rosa.

Palpably, and most understandably, emotions ran high and across the gamut from grief, compassion, anger, disappointment, and fear to doubt and anxiety. The brief appearance towards the conclusion of the meeting by the parents of Ramarly Graham aroused particular feelings of loss and sympathy. Nonetheless, discussion was civil, insightful, informative, and sometimes appropriately and brutally honest. It was a productive meeting despite the many still unanswered questions about this most unfortunate occurrence. The fact that, at the suggestion of one of most eminent local leaders, Alonzo I. deCastro, we conclude our gathering with a prayer, says a great deal about who and what we are as a decent and hope-filled people in Bronx Community District #12.

While it would take many pages to recount the scores of astute and perceptive comments offered on Saturday morning, I respectfully suggest a few thoughts to guide us in the trying times that lie ahead in our neighborhood. First, the reservoir of good will that, by and large, the residents of Community Board #12 (The Bronx) have for the New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) in general -- and for our own Forty-seventh Precinct in particular -- must be fostered and deepened. The people in our District know only too well that we have a genuinely obvious and longtime problem with illicit drugs and with gun violence in our area. We earnestly require the services and the resources of the N.Y.P.D. in order to confront these scourges and to banish them from our midst. More than the present-day quality of life in our locality, the very future of it is at stake.

Correspondingly, the Police Department must re-affirm in real terms its professed policy that it is committed to partnering with the community in the war against crime. Long gone are the days of Community Policing and of Precinct Management Teams (P.M.T.’s) in which Police Officers and members of the public had face-to-face interaction. Many of us remember the names and the faces of our Forty-seventh Precinct Police Officers who walked beats on which they got to know us and to understand how they might be of benefit. Perhaps, such approaches to policing might be branded as luxuries or as fancifully non-essential in the age of guarding against terrorism and maintaining the City of New York as the allegedly safest municipality in America. Nonetheless, they did have their value and they did produce tangible results.

Community Policing has given way to the era of COMP-STAT, wherein statistics and supposedly non-existent, but well-known, Headquarters-imposed performance quotas prevail. Has this metamorphosis in policing strategy and tactics possibly led us to a point at which those in charge at City Hall and One Police Plaza should critically re-evaluate them? Do the statistics tell us the whole story that we should know or a story that interested parties in power want us to know? Do we want or need more numbers and documentation to tell us that we are safe or do we require and desire more numbers of Police Officers whose actual presence really makes us safe? I totally believe Assistant Chief Gomez when he says that the N.Y.P.D. is determined to conduct a full and impartial airing of all of the facts. If I may be so bold as to suggest a further point . . . . . . maybe the Police Department’s examination of this heartbreaking situation should include a questioning of its understanding of the myriad communities that it protects throughout the five (5) Boroughs and of its daily interaction with the residents of each of them. Moreover, the N.Y.P.D., along with all agencies of Municipal Government, must re-discover the four so-called “outer” Boroughs and guarantee that their service to and of New Yorkers is the same outside of Manhattan as it is on the Island for the tourists coming to visit our home town.

The people have a right to have their voices heard. They should and must be able to express their points of view and emotions. How this is done, though, is the crux of the issue. Violence is completely out of the question. Unmitigated anger directed indiscriminately is not either as it and the dissemination of misinformation, either unintentionally in a haphazard fashion or deliberately, will not help matters. I echo and applaud the plea of Forty-seventh Precinct Council President Elizabeth Gill, who at our Saturday morning meeting poignantly implored that parties extrinsic to our neighborhood with interests and values not necessarily in alignment with ours not be allowed to seize this moment and this misfortune for their own purposes and agenda. Such will not heal the loss to the family and the friends of Ramarly Graham. Such will not assist NEW YORK’S FINEST to be finer still in their already exemplary service to protect us. Such will not pilot the people of Community Board #12 (The Bronx) is honestly assessing how we might work together to keep our children out of activities and associations that place them squarely in harm’s way. The last several days have given us our fill of grief, disillusionment, and frustration. We deserve better and so we must reject those who would have us focus on our angst and anguish in order to exploit them in favor of our better instincts that impel us to the conviction that together we can make certain that crime and incidents such as the untimely death of Ramarly Graham do not afflict any resident or family in Bronx Community District #12 ever again.

Please keep the family of Ramarly Graham in your prayers. Do likewise for our New York City Police Officers who bravely lay their life on the line every day for the great people of a great Borough and a great City. May God bless us all!

Until next time, that is it for this time!

Deal of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:16:29 PST

Electronics sale

NEW YORK, Feb. 6- $40 for a digital camera. $100 for a digital tablet.

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Superbowl Champs gear

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:23:03 PST

NEW YORK, Feb. 6- Celebrate the Giants' Super win over the Patriots with Giants gear.

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Deal of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:03:07 PST

NEW YORK, Feb. 4- Get everything you need for your Valentine.

Deals on jewelry, clothes and even perfumes.

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Deal of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:06:13 PST

NEW YORK, Feb. 3- Save 60 to 70% on women’s

clothing clearance.

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Clothing sale

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:29:22 PST

NEW YORK, Feb. 2- Half off Dollhouse brand puffer coats and boots.

Take 20% off your first order.

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Deal of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:05:21 PST

NEW YORK, Feb. 2- Save up to $400 off on clearance TVs.

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No Vote, NO VOICE!

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:03:30 PST

COMMUNITY BOARD

NEWS N’ VIEWS

Father Richard F. Gorman

Chairman

Community Board #12 (The Bronx)

Penning this column on the evening prior to the Florida Republican

Presidential Primary, two sad thoughts rummage through my head. First,

I miss Tim Russert, who died unexpectedly of coronary artery disease

on 13 June 2008. Mr. Russert, as I am certain all recall, was the

longest serving anchor for N.B.C.’s MEET THE PRESS on Sunday morning.

A pre-eminent journalist and renowned political commentator, Tim

Russert was a Senior Vice-President of N.B.C. NEWS and the Chief of

its Washington Bureau. He likewise hosted a weekend interview program

bearing his name on C.N.B.C. and M.S.N.B.C. and was a frequent guest

on N.B.C.-T.V.’s long-running morning program, THE TODAY SHOW. TIME

MAGAZINE hailed him as one of the most influential people in the world

the year in which he died. Prior to his outstanding career in the

media, Mr. Russert was initially a Special Counsel and subsequently

Chief of Staff to the late, great Daniel Patrick Moynihan, United

States Senator from New York and later on became Counsel to The

Honorable Mario M. Cuomo, father of our present-day Governor of the

State of New York, when the senior Cuomo occupied the Governor’s

Mansion in Albany.

Who can ever forget Tim Russert betraying the his Catholic education

heritage by using a chalkboard on Election Day 2000 in order to

explain to us the possible scenarios for the Presidential Election

drama unfolding that night? Mr. Russert was a staple for Election Day

commentary and I cannot bear not having him on the air again this

year, the very first Presidential Election in a very long time that

will be absent his astute political insight, his entertaining Irish

Catholic humor, and his uplifting optimism firmly rooted in his deeply

patriotic love of America and of Americans. I am sorely going to miss

Timothy John Russert.

The other sad thought that simultaneously came to mind is that far too

many of my fellow citizens in the Borough of The Bronx, throughout the

City of New York, and, indeed, nationwide are going to miss out on

Election Day this year as well -- not only due to the loss of Tim

Russert -- but altogether because they cannot or are unable to vote!

It is astounding that, in a world where so many are denied the right

to vote for one reason or another, far too many of us Americans

blithely take for granted this great privilege and exercise of our

sovereign prerogative. Overseas, countless people have struggled to

have the choice to select their leaders and to determine their

destiny. Multitudes have sacrificed their life in order to secure this

birthright of their human dignity. Scores have braved terrorist

threats and physical attacks in order to journey to polling sites, not

counting the cost of energy, effort, time, or even loss of income in

order to cast a ballot. Oh, that we Americans would only rediscover

that enthusiasm, that determination to participate and to be heard

when it comes to elections!

Admittedly, there is much about our political process that

understandably and correctly gives rise to cynicism, skepticism,

distrust, and even disgust. No doubt many of our fellow citizens are

casting a ballot on the viability, reliability, and trustworthiness of

our electoral system by voting with their feet. It is my intention in

this column neither to criticize nor to defend this ill-fated and

regrettable state of affairs. Rather, it is my hope to energize and to

encourage folks to jump again into the waters of political debates,

candidate campaigns, and elections by making one’s voice heard and

one’s presence felt. There are many ways in which to do so, the most

important and potent of which is by exercising the franchise --

i.e., by getting out to vote.

If registered to vote, then plan now to make the time to mark your

ballot on Tuesday, 6 November 2012 between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and

9:00 p.m. If not, NOW is the time to register to vote. To register to

vote in the City of New York, one must by

be a U.S. citizen; be a resident of the City of New York for at least 30 days;

be 18 years of age by the end of the year, but 18 years of age on

Election Day per se in order to vote; not be incarcerated or on parole

for a felony conviction; not be adjudged mentally incompetent by a

court; and not claim the right to vote elsewhere -- i.e., outside

the City of New York.

For assistance in registering to vote -- or on how to cast one’s

vote or where to vote -- one can dial the New York City Voter

Hotline at 212 - VOTE - NYC (212 - 868 - 3692) or contact the Bronx

Office of the Board of Elections in the City of New York at

1780 Grand Concourse

Fifth Floor

The Bronx, New York 10457

Telephone: 718 - 299 - 9017

One can access information about absentee balloting from these same

sources as well.

Want to be heard? FIND YOUR VOICE! VOTE!

Until next time, that is it for this time!

Deal of the Day

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GAME ON

NEW YORK, Feb. 2- Save $50 on X Box 360. Save $150 on 46 inch Samsung LED HDTV.

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Deal of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:10:23 PST

TV savings kickoff

NEW YORK, Jan 31- Last chance football fans to score big savings on big TVs for the big game. Get a 40 inch HDTV LCD TV for only $299. Save $100. Or a Samsung for only $429.99.

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Spellman Basketball Standout Receives Full Scholarship

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:07:04 PST

BRONX, NEW YORK, Jan. 30- Onia Webb, a senior at Cardinal Spellman High School, has signed a National Letter of Intent to attend Northeastern University in Boston in the fall on a full scholarship.

Onia graduated from Holy Rosary Elementary School, and has played basketball all four years at Spellman. Starting for the varsity for the past two years as a small forward, she achieved a triple double in a game against Preston High School last year. Onia also serves on the school's Student Government Executive Committee, and is Sergeant of Arms of Student Government. She played volleyball during her freshmen and sophomore years.

In addition to continuing her basketball career in college, Onia is planning to study Physical Therapy. Meanwhile, her sister, Shana, now in 8th grade, will attend Spellman in September.

Deal of the Day

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NEW YORK, Jan. 30- Valentine gear for your toddler under $10.

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Deal of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:49:07 PST

NEW YORK, Jan. 28 - Women’s jackets from Akademiks cut to $41

from $120.

Men’s shirts, fleeces all on sale.

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Deal of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:20:01 PST

NEW YORK, Jan. 27 - Take 20% off your first order at Akademiks.

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Deal of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:01:53 PST

NEW YORK, Jan. 26- Get a microwave for

under $70 bucks.

BBQ grill

prices slashed.

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Deal of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:16:30 PST

NEW YORK, Jan. 25- Get a car you can afford.

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$0 money down!

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Deal of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Got a tip?) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:40:37 PST

NEW YORK, Jan. 23- Layaway for the big game. Get a super TV for the big game and pay for it over time. FREE shipping on TVs.

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