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GJONAJ CO-HOSTED ZONING TOWN HALL MEETING
Councilman Mark Gjonaj and NYC Council Land Use Division co-hosted a Development
and Zoning Town Hall on Monday, February 25 at 1200 Waters Place. They discussed
when and how community board and community approval is needed and how different
development projects are approved and zoning changes.
(Above) Councilman Gjonaj (c) gave an insightful presentation.
Photo courtesy of Councilman Mark Gjonaj’s Offi ce
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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 #JusticeFor-
Junior 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 conaming
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’
gang-violence 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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