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Bronx News Roundup: Shakeups In NYPD Higher-Ups

by David Cruz 

The Bronx News Roundup is back from its one-week hiatus, loaded with some interesting tidbits happening in the world of Bronx news.

First up, our pal Kappy at The Bronx Times Reporter serves up some gossip on police shakeups happening across the borough. It’s all positive stuff, as the Bronx men in blue have been bumped to better positions, most notably Borough Borough Commander Carlos Gomez, earning a third star as chief of the housing bureau.

The Daily News reports on a narco bust involving an elaborate drug-buyback scheme, alleged to have operated at the 184th Street Pharmacy. The owners and its druggist have been placed under arrest.

Hundreds of drivers are bemoaning the city Transportation Department’s bus lane camera at Fordham Road and Sedgwick Avenue, slapped with tickets for edging too close into a bus lane, News 12 the Bronx reports.

The New York Times lowlights residents delayed access to Jerome Park Reservoir, which at one point served as a scenic jogging route. That was before the decade-long Croton Filtration Plant project that forced the city Department of Environmental Protection from sectioning it off, citing terrorism concerns. Activists dispute the charge.

And finally another interesting piece from the Times, this one focusing on hip hop artists interested in building the borough’s first-ever hip hop museum.

That’s all for this edition of the Bronx News Roundup. Another update’s in the works for next week (we promise!).

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