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Co-op City Times / August 25, 2012
2nd Combing ty p Cinext Blood Co-oDrive Audition for The Wiz today Black Forum, in conjunction with the Bronx Children’s Theatre, is planning on staging a production of The Wiz starring the community’s children. The cast requires about 25 young actors and actresses between the ages of 6-18: 15 youngsters between the ages of 6-11; 5 from the age of 12-15; and 5 between 16-18 years old are needed. Auditions will be held today, Saturday, August 25, 10 a.m. sharp in Dreiser Community Center. No experience necessary. Space is limited. Please call 718-320-8035 as soon as possible to register. Each child must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
Summer Meal Program at P.S. 153 The City of New York provides free breakfast and lunch to all children up to age 18 weekdays during the summer until August 31. This program is offered at approximately 300 public schools, pools, parks and other sites. Some pools also offer meals on the weekends. Children do not need to show registration, documentation, or an ID to receive their meals. The meals consist of delicious sandwiches, tasty salads, fresh fruit and cold milk. Here in Co-op City, the nearest location for the free Summer Meal Program is P.S. 153 Helen Keller School, located at 650 Baychester Avenue, Bronx, N.Y. Breakfast is provided from 8 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. and lunch is provided 11:00 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. For more information or for additional locations, please call 3-1-1 or visit www.nyc.gov.
Farmer’s market in Co-op City until Nov. 17 The Farmer’s Market in the park beside the Firehouse at the corner of Asch Loop and Aldrich Street will be there every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. until November 17. WIC & Seniors’ Farmer’s Market coupons are accepted. This program, which offers fresh fruits and vegetables to the community, is a collaboration of the Riverbay Fund and Harvest Home. Please come out and support our local farmers.
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Co-op City author uses Sherlock Holmes’ reasoning to solve modern day crimes BY BILL STUTTIG Long-time Co-op City resident and esteemed author and police investigator Tom Walker is offering a new twist on his renowned collection of writings detailing the challenges and rewards of police work. The former NYPD commander of the famous 41st Precinct of the 1970s and also the 43rd Precinct and the subsequent author of Fort Apache, and Return to Fort Apache, recently brought to life the mind of one of the world’s great fictional detectives, Sherlock Holmes, showing the reader how the deductive reasoning techniques brought to life by Holmes’ creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle more than a century ago, has assisted him in helping investigative authorities catch some of the most heinous criminals of the 20th and 21st centuries. The 77-year-old Walker, who has been a resident of Co-op City since 1971, insists that his latest book is not a work of fiction in any way, but an actual account of his delving into six famous cases, some of which he claims to have helped solve by relying on his keen love and understanding of the reasoning applied by the Holmes character in 56 short stores and four novels written by Doyle. The book has a rather long title which Walker said he now regrets: How Sherlock Holmes Deduced “Break the Case Clues” on the BTK Killer, the Son of Sam, Unabomber and Anthrax Cases. Aside from the four major cases mentioned in the title, the book also includes
chapters on the investigation into the Mad Bomber which plagued New York City in the 1950s and the ongoing investigation into the Long Island Gilgo Beach Murders involving the remains of several women being found in the wilds of Long
Author Tom Walker
Island over the past several years, all thought to be committed by the same person or persons. Walker shares with the reader actual information and reasoning that he shared with the FBI and other investigating authorities which possibly led to identifying and apprehending the killer or culprit in many of the five famous closed cases discussed in the book.
Walker said in cases such as the BTK killer, the man responsible for a particular heinous set of murders which struck Wichita, Kansas beginning in the mid1970s, he studied letters written by the killer to media outlets and investigators at the time to find hidden clues to the man’s identity such as his occupation or his area of residence. In his chapter about the Son of Sam murders, some of which took place in the 45th Precinct right in the shadow of Coop City, he writes about missed clues in the letters David Berkowitz sent to newspapers and investigators, which if taken into serious consideration by police commanders at the time, could have led to the discovery of Berkowitz’ whereabouts months earlier, possibly saving some of the young lives that were lost in the latter stages of his infamous carnage in the summer of 1977. As a retired investigator, Walker said his natural curiosity about police matters led him to delve into both the Unabomber case and the BTK killer case based in Wichita. Walker claims both in the book and in person that the scenarios he sent to investigating authorities in both cases, including the FBI, proved to be correct when the killers were eventually caught. Two of the cases dealt with in the book, the Mad Bomber of the 1950s and the Son of Sam killings of the mid to late ‘70s where both active cases while he was still in the NYPD and in the book he revisits those cases and applies the reasoning (Continued on page 4)
Some Bay Plaza bus stops relocated due to indoor mall construction Bx12 SBS buses, bus stops and terminal have been relocated at Bay Plaza due to the long term indoor mall construction. SBS fare machinery will be relocated to the new westbound stop at Applebee’s. Bx29 and Bx38 bus stops will be relocated from Applebee’s to Raymour and Flanigan located immediately east. R oute Pa th Eastbound: Regular route to the New England Thruway Bartow Avenue exit ramp, continue straight ahead on Bay Plaza Boulevard to the end. Turn left into parking lot behind Raymour and Flanigan, then layover. Westbound Loop through parking lot from layover area, turn right
onto Bay Plaza Boulevard-continue straight on Bay Plaza Boulevard to Co-op City Boulevard and continue route as usual. Ter mina l Sta nd Layover area in designated on east end of Raymour and Flanigan parking lot. Bus Stops New SBSBx12 Eastbound On Bay Plaza Blvd., far side, Co-op City Blvd. (across from Pier 1/Daffys) On Bay Plaza Blvd., far side Co-op City Blvd. (across from Applebee’s/Raymour and Flanigan) New SBSBx12 Westbound On Bay Plaza Blvd. at Applebee’s (First Stop) Relocated Bx29 & Bx38 Stop is relocated from Applebee’s to Raymour and Flanigan.
Summer Tennis Season Ends …. Today will be the last day of the Co-op City Tennis Club’s free summer tennis program as participants head to the National Tennis Center in Flushing to take part in the annual Arthur Ashe Kids Day. Yesterday, each participant received certificates and trophies for their participation handed out by State Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson and Tennis Club Director Lorraine Alexander. Director Alexander said it was another great summer for the program as more than 300 children took part in the free program held from 9 a.m. to noon each week day. The program averaged more than 100 participants each day. Special events included three tournaments named for Senator Thompson, State Assemblyman Mike Benedetto and a memorial tournament named for the program’s beloved founder, the late Milton Alexander. At the end of the summer, Co-op City’s best players faced off against the best players from other youth tennis program throughout the city and the Co-op City team ended up coming in second. A fall program will begin on Saturday, September 1st on the Co-op City Tennis Courts behind M.S. 181. Photo by Bill Stuttig