Camp to honor slain Bx. teen

Construction has begun on an upstate summer camp to accommodate Bronx teens threatened by gang violence.

Camp Junior at Harriman State Park is named after 15-year-old Lesandro (Junior) Guzman-Feliz, who was murdered by gang members in the Bronx last summer. Camp Junior will aim to show teens their lives don’t have to be ruled by street gangs.

“The grisly murder of ‘Junior’ Guzman-Feliz was a senseless tragedy that shook the New York family to its core, and a reminder that we need to do more to address the causes and conditions that produce violence,” Gov. Cuomo said in a statement.

“Once complete, Camp Junior will provide Bronx kids with a home away from home and give them a reason to resist the temptation to join a gang,” he said.

The state Parks Department kicked in $2 million to rehabilitate a youth camp in Harriman State Park, 47,500 acres of woods, ponds and streams in Rockland and Orange counties only 30 minutes from the Bronx. The project is part of Cuomo’s 2019 Justice Agenda, which calls for expanding youth connections to outdoor recreation.

A group of men dragged Junior (inset) from a Tremont bodega on Bathgate Ave. near 183rd St. in June and hacked him to death with a machete in what authorities think was a case of mistaken identity.

Authorities believe the suspects, members of the Trinitarios gang, were targeting a rival gang member.

Junior was a member of the NYPD Explorers Program, a group for youths interested in law enforcement careers.