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dinsdag 13 augustus 2024
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Dear New Yorkers,
Alexis Aponte’s last stop was inside a Bronx subway terminal at Norwood-205th Street.
That’s where the 29-year-old Queens man was found dead aboard a D train on New Year’s Day 2021, officials said, after fatally ingesting fentanyl.
Aponte’s death was one of 41 fatal overdoses in 2021 within the New York City subway system, according to data obtained by THE CITY through a Freedom of Information Law request.
And that number nearly doubled the next year, the numbers from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reveal, when 79 people fatally overdosed in stations or on trains.
The 93% surge in deadly overdoses in the subway system in 2022 far outpaced the number of such deaths elsewhere across the city, which increased 12% over that same timeframe.
Those on the front lines say they are seeing the stark reality of the increase.
“We get these calls into the stations every day, multiple times a day,” FDNY EMS Lt. Anthony Almojera, vice president of the Uniformed EMS Officers Union, told THE CITY. “And I am getting more calls than I am used to.”
Read more here about fatal overdoses in the subway system.
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Despite multiple accusations of misconduct spanning his 17-year NYPD career, Officer Omar Habib was charged in a criminal court for the first time on Thursday over a 2023 incident where he allegedly choked a “drunk and disorderly” man to unconsciousness. He became the first cop in The Bronx to be charged under a new law banning chokeholds, which makes it a misdemeanor for police to compress a person’s windpipe, carotid arteries or diaphragm in the course of making an arrest. Habib has a history with the potentially deadly tactic: he was allowed to keep his job after putting a bystander in a chokehold in 2017.
A city of nearly nine million people means countless stories of forgotten phones, lost engagement rings, favorite jackets left behind and cash-filled wallets misplaced. Many are never seen again — but, surprisingly, many are! And New Yorkers may be happy to learn the city has a vast network made for returning lost items to their rightful owners. Here is THE CITY’s guide to finding all your lost stuff.
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Wednesday, Aug. 14: A Chalk Day event for kids and families, featuring music, chalk art and more. Free from 3 to 5 p.m. in the play area of Matthews Muliner Playground in The Bronx.
Wednesday, Aug. 14: A Japanese Yosakoi dance class, which is part of the Queensboro Dance Festival’s “Dancing Around the World’s Boro” series. Free from 6 to 7 p.m. at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens.
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