Cheating on the diet: Morris Park Avenue road plan on hold
Councilman Mark Gjonaj (c), in announcing a petition in opposition to a proposed road diet for Morris Park Avenue, speaks before an assembled
group at a rally on Monday, April 1. File Photo
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sition, the administration planned to
move forward with their ‘City Hall
knows best” approach,’ Gjonaj said.
A ‘anti road diet’ petition on
Change.org garnered over 1,088 electronic
signatures.
When not volunteering as chairman
of CB11 or president of MPCA,
D’Angelo operates a small business on
Morris Park Avenue. He and the other
‘mom and pops’ that signed onto the
lawsuit fear that the City’s plan will
hurt their livelihood and make customer
parking even more challenging
than it already is.
That’s a point Gjonaj seconded,
saying, “in this case, Vision Zero is a
shortsighted plan.”
The councilman also expressed the
belief that the area’s congestion will
be at an all time high once the Morris
Park Metro North Railroad station is
constructed in several years.
However, Kevin Daloia the head of
Transportation Alternatives Bronx
branch and avid cyclist expressed support
for the road diet.
Adding bicycle lanes to Morris Park
Avenue is a neccessity, said Daloia,
who rides the avenue fairly often.
“I believe the road diet will make
the corridor safer,” he said.
Another issue that both sides agree
on is that congestion on Morris Park
Avenue is exasperated by doubleparked
cars and trucks, which can
only be resolved through NYPD traffi c
enforcement.
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DEA nabs $2M of pills in ‘Operation
Oxy-Concourse’ drug crackdown
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over a dozen sources in and around
Brooklyn and then sold the oxycodone
to Bronx connection Wilkins Almonte,
the complaint alleges.
He also utilized several other
Bronx sources, procuring oxycodone
These arrests are signifi cant because they bring attention
to an emerging oxycodone traffi cking networks threat.
Oxycodone pills have replaced heroin glassines on the
street, and heroin traffi cking rings’ new competition are
oxycodone distribution organizations.
from Dora Sarita-Duran, Jeffrey Tavarez,
Yamzi Aquino, Raul Morales, Luis
DeJesus and others, according to the
DEA.
“These arrests are signifi cant
because they bring attention to an
emerging oxycodone traffi cking networks
threat,” said DEA Special Agent
in Charge Ray Donovan. “Oxycodone
pills have replaced heroin glassines
on the street, and heroin traffi cking
rings’ new competition are oxycodone
distribution organizations,” he had
continued.
A single 100-tablet subscription
of the drug sold had a street value of
$8,700 according to authorities.
Almonte had multiple Bronx-based
customers, but their largest buyers
were Joel and Jovany Lopez, who
would purchase the bulk oxycodone
in the Bronx and re-sell it to dozens of
end users in and around Waterbury,
CT, the DEA charges.
“This criminal motley crew had the
means to distribute nearly two million
oxycodone pills annually throughout
counties of New York and Connecticut;
but as a result of collaborative law enforcement
efforts, their operation has
been shut down and put out of business,”
Donovan said.
Ray Donovan
DEA Special Agent in Charge
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