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Fordham Manor/University Heights: Turning Trailer Destroys Street Sign in Bollard Crash

By DAVID GREENE
As the year draws to a close, we are continuing to publish some of the stories we couldn’t get to earlier this year [due to staff shortages].    An 18-wheel tractor-trailer knocked over a street sign on the border of Fordham Manor and University Heights after its rear wheels got caught on a relatively new pair of street bollards, two-foot-high plastic barricades designed to protect pedestrians on a traffic island and slow down city traffic. The NYPD reported the incident was the second such crash to have occurred at that particular location in less than 8 hours.   An unnamed


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Van Nest: 29-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot

By SÍLE MOLONEY
A 29-year-old man has died following a fatal shooting in the Van Nest section of The Bronx, police said.   An NYPD spokesperson said that on Monday, Dec. 26, at 9.08 p.m., officers responded to a 911 call regarding a man who had been shot at Van Nest Avenue and Melville Street.   “Upon arrival, police discovered a 29-year-old male shot in the chest,” the spokesperson said. “EMS transported the victim to New York Health and Hospitals/Jacobi where he was pronounced deceased.”   Police said there are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.   On Dec. 27, the Bureau


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