Your Neighborhood — Your News® June 9, 2019
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Throggs Neck ‘hit and run’ victim makes steady recovery
BY PATRICK ROCCHIO
A Throggs Neck man
who was the victim of horrifi
c hit and run is making
a remarkable recovering.
Jared D’Amico, who was
run over by a Jeep while
crossing East Tremont
Avenue near Milton Place
on Saturday, February 11,
is back home and making
steady progress towards
healing his body after extensive
inpatient treatments
at Jacobi Medical
Center and Burke Rehabilitation
in Westchester
County.
D’Amico is now able to
walk again with the aid
of a walker, and is beginning
outpatient physical
therapy, he told the Bronx
Times.
“I am gradually getting
better and gaining
strength,” said D’Amico.
D’Amico, who is
28-years-old and had been
working in construction
before he was fl ung in the
air by a speeding vehicle
while crossing East Tremont
Avenue, said that one
of his goals is to be able to
walk without assistance.
The walker is a helpful
device right now, providing
him the ability to build
up his upper body strength
if he gets tired.
He suffered two broken
legs, a cracked pelvis,
some damaged vertebrae,
fi ve broken ribs and brain
injury after the impact
with the vehicle, which he
doesn’t remember, he said.
He still hopes the driver
of the vehicle will turn
Councilman
King protests
vacant Gun Hill
Road golf range
BY ALEX MITCHELL
The northeast Bronx is sick
and tired of an abandoned golf
driving range off I-95 and the
Hutchinson River parkway being
an eyesore for much of the Baychester
community.
Councilman Andy King demonstrated
his own frustration
along with supporters outside the
massive, vacant property at 1825
E. Gun Hill Road on Wednesday,
May 29.
“It’s been abandoned for nearly
two decades,” King said outside
the lot with enough overgrown
ivy to rival Wrigley Field.
“Ever since the (abandonment)
the grass has grown,” he indicated.
The councilman continued
airing gripes with the underutilized
land, calling it an eyesore ,
while mentioning that it’s current
function is essentially as an illegal
dumping ground.
The land is currently under
the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority’s control.
King is calling on the MTA
to respond to his request for a sit
down meeting that would discuss
the property’s future.
“It is a total disrespect to think
that it is okay to let a property be
overgrown with this much garbage
and debris,” the councilman
said.
There was a plan to develop the
parcel into a 400,000 square foot
shopping center and housing complex
called Baychester Square in
early 2017, which King opposed.
He, along with Speak Up for
a Better Bronx, an organization
that also joined the recent protest,
cited additional traffi c as the
main reason King for blocking the
project.
Even though the proposal was
killed at the City Council level it
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D’Amico is now performing therapy to recover from
his injuries.
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