METRO-NORTH
RR SETTLED
Gov, pols work out
Amtrak agreement
Off-duty PSA 8 offi cer killed
in Shore Road collision
BY ROBERT WIRSING
The Bronx mourns the tragic
passing of a young Police Service
Area 8 police offi cer.
According to police, off-duty
PSA 8 police offi cer Brian Kessler
was involved in a fatal headon
collision with a NYC Parks
Department garbage truck on
Wednesday, January 16 around
8:20 a.m. at 870 Shore Road.
Kessler, 28, was returning
home to New Rochelle after working
an overnight shift at 1 Police
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Plaza.
He was the vehicle’s sole occupant
when it collided with the
green sanitation truck’s front
end near the curve by Pelham
Bay/Split Rock Golf Course’s entrance.
Police offi cers from the 45th
Precinct and NYPD Emergency
Service Unit and fi refi ghters responded
to the incident.
Firefi ghters extricated an
unconscious and unresponsive
Amazon’s
‘last-mile’
delivery to
Hunts Pt.
BY PATRICK ROCCHIO
An Internet e-commerce behemoth
has decided to open its fi rst
facility in the borough.
Amazon, the colossal online
retailer and cloud-based computing
company, has leased a
120,000-square-foot warehouse facility
in Hunts Point and plans to
develop a ‘last-mile’ delivery station,
the company has confi rmed.
Such stations allow e-commerce
companies to ship packages
quickly to its customers after initial
sorting at larger facilities, often
as large a million square feet,
that contain many of the items
companies like Amazon sell, said
a source at Amazon who spoke to
the Bronx Times.
The Amazon source said it is
the company’s fi rst delivery station
in the Bronx.
“We are excited to continue our
investment in New York to speed
up delivery times for customers
and provide great job opportunities
for the talented workforce,”
read a statement from Amazon.
The facility, which will open
sometime before the end of 2019,
will occupy the complex at 1300
Viele Avenue in Hunts Point.
Amazon, a Fortune 10 company
that recently announced that its
second headquarters would site in
both New York City at Long Island
City and in Washington D.C., is
part of a growing list of ‘last-mile’
facilities that are or may lease
space in the borough.
Jet.com, an e-commerce company
owned by Walmart, leased a
200,000 square foot warehouse on
Bronx River Avenue at the former
home to ABC Carpet in 2018, as
previously reported.
Additionally, Innovo Prop-
BY PATRICK ROCCHIO
A ‘gamechanger’ transportation
option that will change the
commute from the east Bronx into
Manhattan and to points north
looks like it will come to fruition
within the next several years.
After much negotiation, Amtrak
has agreed to provide the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority with
the rail track access it needs for the
eventual operation of a new Metro-
North line that will bring four new
train stations to the eastern part of
the borough.
The agreement provides a rightof
way into Penn Station as new infrastructure
becomes functional in
the next few years for Metro North
trains, and now allows MTA to begin
designing and planning the Coop
City, Morris Park, Parkchester/
Van Nest and Hunts Point stations.
Governor Cuomo announced
the Memorandum of Understanding
between MTA, the Empire
State Development Corporation
and Amtrak to move the project forward
on Tuesday, January 22.
The deal will allow for the construction
of the new Metro-North
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Artistic World Vision
The Women’s NYC March Alliance, The Eyes of the World mural and Talitha
Cumi Urban Etiquette & Leadership Academy co-hosted an exciting after
march celebration on Saturday, January 19 at The Sanz Banquet Hall.
Nicole Hunter (c) helped Skyla Moore (l) and Tihannah La Rounde work
on the Eyes of the World mural. See spread on page 9.
. Photo by Silvio Pacifi co
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