Innocent plea in gal pal murder
A 21-YEAR-OLD man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murdering his girlfriend, a mother of two, inside her Harlem apartment during an argument.
Malachi Colon was arraigned on murder and weapons charges in Manhattan Criminal Court.
Colon was indicted in the death of 24-year-old Natalie MARIAN JAVITS, the widow of New York Sen. Jacob Javits and a longtime champion of public arts, has died. She was 92.
A home health aide found Javits unconscious in bed in her Manhattan apartment about 8 a.m. Tuesday, cop sources said Wednesday.
Javits’ daughter Carla said her mother was in declining health. THAT’S NOT how you get downtown!
A woman jumped onto the tracks at a Brooklyn subway station Wednesday morning and started walking toward Manhattan, but was taken into custody minutes later, police said.
The woman, who appeared to be in her 20s, was (Glo) Vasquez during a heated exchange on Dec. 9.
He allegedly shot her in the head after her roommate went outside for a cigarette.
Another man was in the apartment when Vasquez was killed, and Colon blamed him for the crime.
Investigators didn’t buy it, and Colon was arrested on Jan. 31.
“She was a very vibrant person, socially active and interested in political life and community affairs,” added Carla Javits, CEO of REDF, a San Francisco-based nonprofit.
Javits was an actress before marrying her liberal Republican husband in 1947 in his first year in Congress. taken to Woodhull Medical Center, where she was expected to undergo psychiatric observation.
The drama unfolded just before 8:55 a.m. at the Myrtle Ave./Broadway station on the J line. A video showed straphangers imploring her to get off the tracks. EACH OF the city’s neighborhoods should expect to house shelters for the homeless people from that area, Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday.
“I don’t know how a community can say, ‘Here are our own neighbors who ended up homeless - someone else should take care of them,’” de Blasio said one day after he announced plans to open 90 new shelters around the city. “That makes no sense. I think it’s fair to say to every community, do your fair share.”
Every one of the 59 community boards in the city should have the capacity to shelter the people from that board, he said, adding there may be more in areas that pump more people into homeless system.