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In Spite of the Devil: Spuyten Duyvil and the Lost World of Marble Hill

Written by C.J. Sullivan on December 5, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

In the Dutch of the area’s eventual settlers, that portion of the Harlem River became known as Spuyten Duyvil, variously translated as "the devil’s spout" or "in spite of the devil"–the former on account of the gushing fresh waters that poured into the creek from a fountain near the shore, the latter after a local
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A Brooklyn Teacher Who Keeps Track of Vampires

Written by C.J. Sullivan on November 28, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

I recently talked with Held, 50, who, with his training as a speech teacher, speaks in a painstakingly refined voice that almost sounds as if there were something Eastern European about it. I asked him how an apparently mild-mannered teacher ever got involved with vampires. "It started when I began teaching at Samuel J. Tilden
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Grand Concourse Solitaire: Adrift at the Andrew Freedman Home for Older Adults

Written by C.J. Sullivan on November 21, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

One of the Bronx’s most majestic buildings is the blocklong mansion known as the Andrew Freedman Home for Older Adults. Set back from the Grand Concourse between 166th St. and McClellan St., the place was opened in 1924, with an endowment from the estate of the deceased capitalist Andrew Freedman. Freedman’s will stipulated that the
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Tales of Beekman Ave.

Written by C.J. Sullivan on November 7, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Cypress Ave. is the heart of the South Bronx. Hillary Clinton will never come here–and if you don’t live here, or have business here, you, too, are advised to stay away. You’ve entered New York City’s Appalachia, or its Trenchtown: even given the crime reduction in this part of the Bronx, it’s still a district
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Terror in Woodside, Queens

Written by C.J. Sullivan on October 17, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Then, on Aug. 22, without much fanfare or media attention, 19-year-old Jamie Oliveira of Queens was arrested for rape, kidnapping and sexual assault in connection with two separate incidents in Woodside, on July 9 and Aug. 6, for which the police had suspected Vicuna. It is believed that Oliveira–like Vicuna–was using a dark four-door sedan
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Big Pun’s Mural

Written by C.J. Sullivan on October 10, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

A sad story, but one that would never have been told had Rios not been the 700-lb. Latino rapper known as Big Punisher–Big Pun to you. When word got out that the corpulent spitter was no more, the South Bronx mourned. Here was the first double-platinum Latino rapper, and now, at 28, he was with
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The Place Rudy Forgot

Written by C.J. Sullivan on September 5, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

And no one ever will care about the Bronx unless Fernando Ferrer, that borough’s Great Hispanic Hope, is elected mayor in 2001. I like Ferrer because I graduated a decade after he did from the same Bronx high school–Cardinal Spellman. I’ll vote for the man and I’ll back a loser, and the Bronx will probably
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A West Side Dognapping

Written by C.J. Sullivan on August 22, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

But I was too intrigued by the announcement to let that get in the way, so I called the number, and luckily the missing dog’s owner answered. She was an apparently emotionally healthy woman with a legitimate concern that her family pet had been nabbed. Here is what she told me. At about 10 p.m.
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The Name-Change Game

Written by C.J. Sullivan on August 1, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Now, this should have been an easy case. No one had any objections. Normally, name changes aren’t considered very important in busy courthouses. If you follow a few simple procedures, you’ll get it done. Unfortunately, Francis and his family ran into a judge who was looking to make a name for himself (the judge will
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One Cop Talking

Written by C.J. Sullivan on July 11, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

James, a cop of a certain age, paused for effect. Now, you can dismiss this as the ranting of a racist, or you can give him more of a listen, to see where he’s going with it. I listened. "The real deal with that Puerto Rican Day parade is that white officers were given assigned
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