Arrest in Riis slay
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
Police have made an arrest in the
fatal stabbing on Mon., March
25, around 8:47 p.m., in front of
1115 F.D.R. Drive, near E. 11th St., at
the Jacob Riis Houses.
Responding offi cers found a 27-yearold
man with a stab wound to the stomach.
E.M.S. medics transported the victim
to Bellevue Hospital, where he was
pronounced dead.
On Wed., March 27, police released
the name of the victim, Phibeon Smalls,
27, of 710 E. Ninth St., and said that
Christopher Dixon, 26, of the same
building, had been arrested for his
murder. The victim lived on the second
fl oor and the alleged killer lives on the
fi fth fl oor at the address, less than a
block west of the Riis Houses.
A witness said the two had argued
prior to the stabbing, a police spokesperson
said, though it was not clear
how long before the incident it was.
“Apparently, they had a little bit of
an ongoing back and forth, and this is
the fi rst time it turned violent,” Captain
John L. O’Connell, the Ninth Precinct’s
commanding offi cer, told this pasper
on March 27. “There was no gang or
narcotics nexus. This was a specifi c
thing between these people. We have
no signs of retaliation.”
The East Village precinct had impressively
gone nearly two years without
a murder, he noted.
“I was hoping, but we didn’t quite
make it to two years,” he said.
According to an “Off the Grid” article
by the Greenwich Village Society
for Historic Preservation, 710 E. Ninth
St. was originally built as an “H”-style
public school in 1876 and continued
to serve as such until the 1970s. After
that, it was the home of Loisaida Inc.
for 30 years. The building then underwent
a complete renovation funded by
the city’s Department of Housing Preservation
and Development. Supportive
housing units for youth aging out of
foster care, plus a new 10,000 squarefoot
Loisaida Community Center, were
created as part of the renovation.
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