Police blotter
Pair shot in Chelsea
and East Harlem
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
Bullets fl ew once again on the streets
of Manhattan between Friday night
and Saturday morning, leaving three
wounded as gun violence ramps up again,
police reported.
Two young men were shot and injured
at the corner of West 25th Street and 9th
Avenue in Chelsea at aout 11:15 p.m. on
Oct. 23, authorities reported.
According to the 10th Precinct, the
victims told detectives that they had heard
the shots and then felt pain. It’s not clear,
at this point, who fi red at them.
Law enforcement sources said one victim,
a 24-year-old man, took a bullet to his
right foot, while the other, a 16-year-old
boy, suffered gunshot wounds to his arm
and right leg.
EMS units removed both victims to Bellevue
Hospital; they are expected to recover.
Another dispute led to bullets as a
41-year-old man was shot three times at
the Johnson Houses, a NYCHA housing
complex at 1809 Lexington Ave. in East
Harlem, at about 2 a.m. on Oct. 24.
Members of the 23rd Precinct responded
to the location and found the victim shot in
PHOTO BY LLOYD MITCHELL
Cops seek two who were involved in
shooting that injured a man in Manhattan
BY EMILY
DAVENPORT
Cops are looking for
a man and woman
who are behind a
shooting that left a man
injured in Manhattan last
month.
According to police, at
12:10 p.m. on Sept. 15 a
19-year-old man was in
front of 108 Avenue D
when he was approached
by an unknown man who
was accompanied by an
unknown woman. The man
then shot the 19-year-old in
his right leg before both the
shooter and woman fl ed on
foot to parts unknown.
The victim was taken to
Bellevue Hospital in stable
condition. There were no
other injuries reported as a
result of this incident.
The NYPD released
the left and right legs; he also had a graze
wound to his torso. Paramedics rushed him
to Harlem Hospital for treatment of injuries
not considered life-threatening.
Detectives learned that the victim had
been involved in a dispute with the gunman,
who’s described as a Black man in his 20s.
No further information was made available.
Anyone with information regarding any
of the shootings is urged to call Crime
Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish,
dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit
tips online at nypdcrimestoppers.com, or
on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls and messages
are kept confi dential.
photos and video of the
suspects taken prior to the
incident.
The shooter is described
as a dark-skinned adult
man with a thin build. He
was last seen wearing a
black long-sleeve shirt with
white lettering in front of it,
black sweat pants with red
stripes on the sides, black
sneakers, white Du-rag on
his head, sunglasses on
top of his head and a black
face mask.
The woman who was
with the shooter is described
as a light-skinned
adult with a medium build
and pink hair in a ponytail.
She was last wearing
a black tan-top, dark pink
sweater, light pink sweat
pants with black stripes on
the sides, black sneakers.
Anyone with information
in regard to this
incident is asked to call the
NYPD’s Crime Stoppers
Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS
(8477) or for Spanish,
1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
The public can also submit
their tips by logging
onto the Crime Stoppers
website, nypdcrimestoppers.
com, or on Twitter @
NYPDTips. All calls are
strictly confi dential.
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One of the most crucial ways that CUNY
has committed to its mission in recent years
has been to respond to the evolving needs of
our students after graduation. And the central
strategy of that focus has been to vigorously
pursue partnerships with employers
who share our vision of creating professional
opportunities for students from underserved
communities. It’s an approach
with payoffs for both our students and the
local economy.
Now, of course, there is a new urgency to
this priority: The pandemic confronts New
York with economic challenges we couldn’t
have imagined a year ago, and CUNY is determined
to support its students when they
need it most and to take a leading role in the
city and state’s recovery.
Prior to the coronavirus, we had put together
a team in our workforce programs
office to help CUNY and its colleges forge
connections with private-industry partners
in the city’s largest and most thriving economic
sectors with the goal of creating career
pathways for our students. The result
has been remarkable: Tens of thousands
of professional opportunities in the health
care, finance, tech, real estate, architecture
and cultural sectors. Now we are doubling
down on these efforts, making good on our
mission to propel students up the socioeconomic
ladder at a time when the pandemic
has eliminated thousands of internship and
job opportunities.
One of our newest and most exciting
partnerships is with the New York Jobs
CEO Council, a coalition led by 27 chief executives
of some of the largest employers
in New York including JPMorgan Chase,
Amazon and Microsoft. It’s a collaboration
that will create job opportunities for 25,000
CUNY students with a focus on low-income
and Black, Latinx and Asian communities.
The Jobs CEO Council has a direct impact
on the economy and our partnership will
create a robust pipeline of skilled CUNY
workers into the growing workforce.
This fall we’re also launching our Federal
Work-Study Experimental Site, a program
that will allow both companies and
non-profit organizations to hire some 9,000
CUNY students for paid internships. This
unique opportunity will allow students to
work off campus with private companies at
a time when the pandemic has halted many
on-campus activities, including work-study
employment that so many students depend
on. And with many businesses struggling
and in need of financial support to hire and
retain staff, this initiative allows employers
to hire CUNY workers because costs are
shared with the federal government.
And then there is the CUNY 90-day Upskilling
Challenge, which is providing free
virtual skills training and includes partnerships
with Google and IBM to connect
students to employers that are hiring during
COVID-19.
Meanwhile, the continuing pandemic
keeps us focused on the need to engage
our students with the career opportunities
available to them in the healthcare field —
and to provide them with the training and
experience that will give them the skills and
credentials they’ll need to walk into wellpaying
jobs.
Our ongoing relationship with Montefiore
Health System is a prime example.
All three of our colleges in the Bronx have
partnerships with Montefiore that help prepare
their students for jobs in health care.
At Lehman College, Montefiore is a partneremployer
of the Braven Accelerator Course,
a professional readiness program that was
launched in the spring and helps students
build skills in the health service field.
Montefiore and Hostos Community College
have worked closely to develop and deliver
health care training for students. H.E.R.O.
High School, which opened in 2013 in the
Bronx as a collaboration between CUNY,
Montefiore and the city Department of Education,
provides an integrated six-year program
in which students gain healthcare
workplace experience while they earn a Regents
diploma and an associate’s degree in
nursing or community health from Hostos.
Montefiore also serves as an industry adviser
in the development of a new associate
degree in health sciences at Bronx Community
College.
The list goes on: CUNY partnerships
with financial firms like Centerbridge Partners
and Deerfield Management, trade associations
like the Real Estate Board of New
York, economic development companies
like the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development
Corporation and nonprofits like the Urban
Land Institute are helping us weather the
pandemic and keep our students on track to
be part of the recovery. With support from
the Mellon Foundation, we are expanding
the CUNY Cultural Corps, our provensuccessful
program to expose students to
sustainable career paths in the city’s arts
and cultural sectors. Break Through Tech,
which grew out of the successful Women in
Tech (WiTNY) program and was launched in
partnership with Cornell Tech and industry
allies, promises to move many more young
women into tech-focused fields in which
they have been long underrepresented.
Two recent economic impact studies
noted that CUNY and its colleges pump
billions of dollars a year into the regional
economy and our growing list of private
sector partnerships is no small part of that.
CUNY’s first priority is always to our students—
to graduate them into good jobs and
careers and to put them on paths to fulfilling
lives. This year more than any other we
expect New York City to be the beneficiary
of their success.
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