Taking a seat
Marine Park elementary unveils ‘buddy benches’
BY JESSICA PARKS
Marine Park community
members unveiled two
“buddy benches” at a neighborhood
elementary school on
Wednesday, commemorating
a former student — local fi refi
ghter Steven Pollard — who
fell to his death in January
while attempting to rescue car
crash victims on a Mill Basin
bridge.
Neighborhood residents
helped raise funds to install the
benches at the PS 207 schoolyard,
where “children who are
feeling lonely can go to fi nd a
friend,” said school secretary
Jessica Scarfogoliero, who saw
the benches as a fi tting tribute
to the fallen hero.
“Firefi ghter Pollard’s
bench will not only provide a
fi tting memorial for the friend
we’ve lost but will serve as
a reminder that Steven was
a friend to the PS 207 community,
where he lived and
served,” she said.
Students are urged to lookout
PS 207 unveiled a “buddy bench” for fallen FDNY fi refi ghter Steven Pollard
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– who used to attend the school. Photo by Jessica Parks
for students sitting on the
new benches, and to keep them
company — as they may be in
need of a friend, according to
Scarfogoliero.
The memorials — which
Scarfogoliero helped commission
along with the other faculty
— are inscribed with the
words “In Loving Memory of
Steven Pollard, FDNY.”
Pollard — a 30-year-old
veteran of Canarsie’s Ladder
Company 170 — fatally fell 52
feet after slipping between a
3-foot gap separating opposing
traffi c lanes while attempting
to cross to the Brooklyn-bound
side of the bridge in a heroic
rescue effort.
“Steven was everything
we want in a fi refi ghter —
strong, smart, hard-working,
dedicated, and above all else,
brave,” Fire Department Commissioner
Daniel Nigro said
the fi refi ghter’s funeral earlier
this year.
A 32-year-old man was shot to death in the middle of busy Pennsylvania
Avenue in East New York. Photo by Todd Maisel
Gunman slays man in East New York
BY TODD MAISEL
A pistol-packing fi end
gunned down a 32-year-old
man in East New York Tuesday
morning, striking a
school and a city bus in the
process.
The gunman fi red off several
rounds on Pennsylvania
Avenue near Duman Avenue
at 8:45 am, hitting the victim
in the stomach and chest, before
fl eeing as the man bled
out on the streets, according
to police.
Paramedics rushed the
victim to Brookdale University
Hospital, where he was
pronounced dead.
Several gunshots struck
the door of a short school bus
idling in front of a nearby day
care center, as well as a B20
bus traveling northbound
along Pennsylvania Avenue.
Law enforcement sources
said a 4-year-old child was
on board the school bus at
the time, but that all passengers
aboard both buses escaped
unharmed.
Police shut down Pennsylvania
Avenue for two
blocks as crime scene investigators
combed the area for
clues, and the suspect remains
on the lam, according
to police.
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