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Man Shot on West 104th Street
PUBLISHED JANUARY 11, 2008
Police responding to reports of a male shot found a body that had been gunned down in front of 133 W. 104th St. shortly after midnight Thursday.
Kreembly Rivera, a 29-year-old Hispanic male from the north Bronx, was pronounced dead upon arrival at St. Luke’s Hospital, police said. Rivera had been shot numerous times in front of the Fredrick Douglass housing projects between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues.
Rivera had served three years in state prison for criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and an three additional years for criminal possession of a weapon. Rivera had been scheduled to appear for a trial Wednesday on misdemeanor charges from August 2005 of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree with intent to use.
The investigation is ongoing and has not yet yielded any arrests, police said.
Daniel Amzallag can be reached at news@columbiaspectator.com
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i dont want yall to take over the neighborhood. for what? so we can be sent to another housing project? that will not help the problem. the problem is the currupt system, the police and the gov. stop ignoring the screams of the inner city youth. this man had children and was desperatly tryin to get it together. this is the neighborhood i grew up in and he protected the neighborhood better than any police could. God Have mercy on your soul Kreem, you will be missed. Your mother is a beautiful lady and very warm hearted. you live through us. i am deeply saddend by this event. To the youth: the GAME is one we (the minority) should leave alone. lets get our learning on, let us get educated.
I don't want you to go to another housing project either.
I'd like you to move someplace where you can afford the cost of living so I don't have to pay your rent through my taxes.
It's not that I have anything against you; I don't want to pay anyone else's rent whatsoever.
I would like you to move someplace where you can afford to live by yourself or with only wealthy people. I don't like living in a "society" (and I use that term loosely for the usa)where, for lack of education, people don't understand and refuse to commit to what it takes to build it and keep it strong.
I don't have anything against you, but for the least-taxed people in the western world to scream about taxes, taxes, taxes, taxes means that the social "fabric" is a joke here, if not missing altogether.
Well.. I was looking for one of those areas with only wealthy people.
I thought - ah, Manhattan - extremely desirable location with astronomical property values so rent is expensive, buying is expensive. Good pick.
Unfortunately, I discovered that someone had conspired to fill Manhattan with people who couldn't possibly afford to live here, and then make me pay their rents.
Now, I would understand if most people in public housing were there for only a year or so, and it helped them get back on their feet. I'm fine with a nice little social safety net. But I don't see people trying to get back on their feet in these places for the most part - I see people who demand their 'right' to live wherever they want, funded by me, forever.
Hey, are you assuming you have the "right" to make these people - who were here before you - move where you want them to?
Manhattan has always had poor people. Now they are undesirable to you?
Do you desire what they have, but not them?
You should move! Greenwich Connecticut is more like it.
That 'right' isn't necessary. It is plainly ridiculous to think that someone might have the right to make me pay their rent so they can live in an area they cannot afford. People who cannot afford Manhattan housing simply don't have a claim to live here in the first place.
This falls out of very basic realities about property ownership upon which our society is founded. If you want the right to stay where you are, then buy. You have a right to what you own.
But we're not talking about owners here. If you aren't an owner, you have no claim to the place where you happen to live. Manhattan doesn't belong to the people we are talking about. They are guests in the city - they are guests in the buildings they occupy. Guests cannot claim a 'right' to stay.
"Rights" are not determined by economic status, but by laws. For example, our tax code is based on obligation of the better off to pay more than the poor- yes - to help the poor!
No country can call itself a nation where those with wealth and property have more rights than others.
That is an arostocracy, the kind of system we are NOT supposed to be. The government is making the rich help the poor. Without it, we would still have slavery.
Your rant about wealthy people having 'more rights' is entirely irrelevant to anything that has been discussed here.
You are in fact the one suggesting that certain people should be given more rights than other people - you think that your favored group of people should have the right to live in homes they do not own without even having to pay for most or all of their rent.
But why your favored group? There are poor people all over the country - others are not granted the "right" to live in extremely expensive homes in desirable areas with the taxpayers footing the bill. If you were concerned at all about fairness, you would have to suggest some sort of national lottery for this housing - instead you want it to go to groups of people you have some special interest in.
This is motivation from greed and laziness. People want what others have - life in highly desirable areas - but they don't want to work for it like everyone else.
Dude. In america, all people have the same rights. There are no favored groups.
You want what others have. Check yourself out.
No favored groups?
Does this mean that you're going to start paying my rent in the near future?
Yes, if you are truly needy.
Does it count if I just decide not to earn an income because I'd prefer that other people pay for my costs of living?
You won't be the first or last.
Is it just me or is this shit just becoming a weekly event?
Clearly we need to raise taxes in order to pull these poor innoncent people out of the criminal lifestyle that whites have created. 80% federal income tax and 20% state income tax should suffice.
Who is the "we" that you refer to .... the over-taxed hedge fund managers?
Hells yeah!
Aww come on, can't we just get rid of public housing and rent control so Columbia students can take over the neighborhood? We don't shoot one another too often.
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