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BRONX TIMES R 6 EPORTER, MARCH 8-14, 2019 BTR
Junior’s parents Leandra (2nd from l) and Lisandro (c) were presented ceremonial street
signs. Photo by Aracelis Batista
Justice for Junior: Street
renamed for Guzman-Feliz
BY ALEX MITCHELL
The 15-year-old boy whose tragic
murder touched hearts across America
has been immortalized.
The corner of Bathgate Avenue
and East 183rd Street is now offi cially
Lesandro Junior Guzman-Feliz Way
as of Wednesday, February 27.
Borough President Ruben Diaz,
Jr. joined Councilman Ritchie Torres
and Junior’s parents Leandra
and Lisandro along with many other
Bronxites at the cursed corner to celebrate
the life of the innocent teenager
who is gone too soon.
The co-naming actually happened
on Leandra’s birthday, which had left
the mother almost speechless.
She did smile when a mariachi
band performed its rendition of happy
birthday, though.
It’s been a challenging year for Leandra
and her family since Junior’s
passing on Wednesday, June 20.
She spends almost every day visiting
his gravesite at St. Raymond’s
Cemetery.
“The legacy that Junior Guzman
leaves behind summed up in #Justice-
ForJunior has been an awakening for
all of us and has become a national rallying
cry against gang violence in our
streets. The images of Junior’s death
have become to our time what the images
of Emmet Till was to his own
time. Junior’s death has awakened all
of us, and has confronted us with a crisis
that we cannot afford to ignore,”
Torres said when he fi rst proposed the
street’s co-naming some months ago.
In wake of Junior’s tragedy, Torres
also allocated one million dollars
to seven police precincts in the Bronx
to combat the dangerous rise of gang
violence in the borough, those being:
the 40th, 42nd, 44th, 46th, 47th, 48th
(Junior’s home precinct) and 52nd precincts.
“I pushed for $1 million to be included
in the recently adopted city
budget and it will go directly to the
48th Precinct for ‘Cure Violence’ gangviolence
prevention initiative. This
will take a holistic approach that will
connect former gang members and
violence interrupters with youth who
may be at risk of joining gangs, and
link them to social services, confl ict
resolution specialists and legal services
as needed,” said Torres.
Junior also joined the NYPD explorers
program in his youth. Stationed
out of the 45th Precinct, he spent his
adolescence staying on the right side
of the law.
He was about to wrap up his junior
year of high school at Dr. Richard Izquierdo
Health & Science Charter
School during that June month.
His English teacher Brianna
Schaar commended the young man for
being one of her most improved students.
As of Wednesday, January 23, the
bodega that Junior was carried out of
by armed gang members had offi cially
become the fi rst ‘safe haven bodega,’
equipped with safety and panicequipment
to prevent there being another
incident like Junior’s.
That’s something that Junior’s
mother had advocated for since August
of last year.
During Diaz’s State of the Borough
address on Thursday, February 21 he
announced the opening of ‘Camp Junior’
at Harriman State Park in Rockland
County.
It’s going to be a no fee, two-week,
sleep-away camp for any child from
the Bronx, formally opening this summer,
operated by the Fresh Air fund in
honor and memory of Lesandro Junior
Guzman-Feliz.
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