Trayvon Martin Remembered at Harlem Hoodie March Updated 5 hrs ago

April 6, 2012 7:11am | By Jeff Mays, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

Dubbed the “240 Hoodie March” for the number of students enrolled at the Democracy Prep Charter High School, participants marched from the school on 133rd Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard through the streets of Harlem. In their hands, they held packages of Skittles candy and cans of iced tea, the two items Martin had gone to the store to purchase before he was killed. (DNAinfo/Jeff Mays)

HARLEM Christopher Franco has no doubt that what happened to Florida teen Trayvon Martin could have just as easily happened to him.

“Because of the way you dress, some police officers think you are a hoodlum,” said the junior at Democracy Prep Charter High School.

“They think you are the next drug dealer. Trayvon Martin is in the same position we are. It could have been any one of us.”

Franco and his fellow students organized a rally and march Thursday evening to express their outrage at the February shooting death of the unarmed Martin, 17, who was black and shot by volunteer neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman.

Trayvon Martin (Facebook/Justice for Trayvon Martin)

The shooter has yet to be charged or arrested.

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A Public Park to Rival the Yankees Playground

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As the elevated train rolled by, Heritage Field opened this week on the site of the former Yankee Stadium. More Photos »

By WINNIE HU

Published: April 5, 2012

When the new Yankee Stadium opened in 2009, not even the loudest of Yankee fanatics could drown out the outraged howls over its costly tickets, its tax-exempt financing and, of course, its construction atop two city parks.

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A Gleaming New Park Near the Home of the Yankees

But now, in an unabashed bid for redemption, New York City officials have spared no expense to deliver on a long-promised, $50.8 million public ballpark across the street from the stadium to make amends for their part in a bitter struggle over lost parkland that pitted Bronx residents against their most famous neighbor.

Heritage Field opened this week, more than a year behind schedule, on the site of the old Yankee Stadium the last of which was demolished in 2010 and nearly every inch, from the pavement stones underfoot to the three natural grass ball fields, has been elaborately designed to pay homage to the Yankees and their celebrated former home. Even the sod is the same that the Yankees, professional baseballs biggest spender, chose for their new stadium.

Drug rule breaks language barrier

New state mandate orders pharmacies to use written forms, translation services

By Jimmy Vielkind

Published 10:12 p.m., Thursday, April 5, 2012

ALBANY Hoping to avoid medical mix-ups, the state will require pharmacies to provide customers with information about the drugs they’re taking in their own language.

The law was passed last week as part of the state’s $132.6 billion budget. It requires any pharmacy chain with eight or more stores in the state to provide written materials, as well as some translation service for customers.

“The bottom line is that this provides critical services for people with limited English proficiency, and in many instances we’re talking about life or death,” said Alphonso David, Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s deputy secretary for civil rights.

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