Friends of William Murphy believe the homeless man's death August 15th was the result of a bias attack. This memorial was erected at Epiphany Lutheran Church in Norwood, where Murphy helped maintain the garden. Police have ruled his death an accident.
Police think Billy Murphy died in an accident. But if the homeless man’s friends are right in suspecting foul play, it’d be one of an increasing number of attacks on the homeless nationwide.
We’re all a little bleary-eyed here at BxNN after a very late night of Tweeting (did you follow us?) and shuttling between candidate events. We’ll have more for you later, but for now just a couple of items/thoughts
NY1 has all the results from last night’s Democratic primary.
Within minutes of State Senator Pedro Espada, Jr. conceding defeat last night, his victorious opponent Gustavo Rivera arrived at the Monte Carlo
In last night’s primary election, Sen. Rev. Ruben Diaz, Sr. defeated his challenger, community organizer Charlie Ramos, to move on to the general election in the Senate’s 32nd District, where he’s been in office since 2003. But it wasn’t all smiles for Diaz. While he was victorious, his Senate buddy, Pedro Espada, Jr., lost his seat to challenger Gustavo Rivera. Diaz has been a staunch defender of Espada throughout this election season, endorsing and even campaigning for him. “I’m going to lose an amigo,” Diaz told reporters as poll numbers started coming in during his election party last night-a classy buffet dinner and open bar celebration at Morris Park restaurant Maestro’s.
When Pedro Espada Jr. stepped down from the podium in the back of La Luna Lounge in Tremont after giving a short, fiery and somewhat confusing concession speech into a crush of reporters, the small but raucous crowd began chanting. “ESPADA! ESPADA! ESPADA!” they bellowed.
Ace BxNN photographer Adi Talwar was on hand for Pedro Espada’s concession speech at La Luna Lounge and Gustavo Rivera’s victory party at the Monte Carlo Room. Enjoy.
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