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The Parks Department
held a ribbon cutting ceremony
May 22 for the $12.5
million renovation to Mapes
Ballfi eld.
In attendance at the event
were Parks Commissioner
Mitchell Silver, Deputy Borough
President Marricka
Scott-McFadden, Congressman
Ritchie Torres, Council
Member Oswald Feliz,
Community Board 6 District
Manager John Sanchez, The
Mary Mitchell Family and
Youth Center Board President
Ana Jacobo, family
members of the late Heidi
Hynes and Astin Jacobo and
community members.
As part of the Community
Parks Initiative, Mapes Ballfi
eld has been completely redesigned
and reconstructed.
The park now includes a completely
reconstructed Jacobo
Ballfi eld, a new playground,
new fi tness equipment and
a new sitting area, two new
entrances to the park and a
new picnic and lawn area. A
new garden, the Heidi Hynes
Meditation Garden, will be
created at the site of a parcel
which was donated to Parks
by the Mary Mitchell Family
and Youth Center as part of
this project.
“I am so proud of the
work we have accomplished
through the Community
Parks Initiative, and this
renovation at Mapes Ballfi
The ribbon cutting for the renovation of Mapes Ballfi eld Photos courtesy of NYC Parks
eld is the latest example of
our work to revitalize greenspaces
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in traditionally underserved
communities,” Silver
said. “I would like to thank
Mayor Bill de Blasio for his
commitment to building equity
through this initiative.
This $12.5 million renovation
at Mapes Ballfi eld will benefi
t the Crotona community for
decades to come.”
Welcome!
Parks cuts the ribbon
on $12.5 M renovation
of Mapes Ballfi eld
BX man among four people charged in bank fraud
BY BRONX TIMES
A Bronx man along with three co-defendants, allegedly deposited nearly $1
million in fraudulent checks between New York and California and face up to
30 years in prison.
On Thursday, they were charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud,
bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, in connection with a scheme to order
bank checks in the names of multiple victims and then fraudulently deposit
those checks drawn from the victims’ accounts into accounts that the defendants
controlled.
According to the investigation, between at least September 2018 and November
2018, Deibi Sanchez, 48, and his co- defendants executed schemes to
defraud fi nancial institutions of more than $890,000. They did so by depositing
false and fraudulent checks drawn from the accounts of at least three different
New York victims into banks located in New York and California.
“These defendants allegedly orchestrated a nationwide cyber scheme to
stalk victims and steal their money,” said Police Commissioner Dermot Shea.
“But the United States Secret Service and the United States Postal Service,
together with our NYPD detectives and the prosecutors of the United States
Attorney’s Offi ce in the Southern District of New York, meticulously tracked
their digital moves to piece together this important case and ensure justice
will be served.”