MARCH 20,
2007 --
The Highbridge
section of The Bronx rises from Jerome Avenue. Yankee Stadium
is located a block east of Jerome Avenue.
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Yankee
Stadium near Woodycrest.
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The
new Yankee Stadium is rising …
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The stadium-to-be
is under construction on Jerome Avenue, and across 161st Street from
the current home of the
Yankees. Woodycrest Avenue is one of the streets that go up the Highbridge
hill.
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The
snow-covered construction site of Yankee Stadium, Jr., Monday
morning, March 19. The Highbridge section of The Bronx rises
back of the apartment buildings along Jerome Avenue (rear).
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Two families, the
Soumares and the Magassas, whose parents immigrated from the west
African country of Mali, lived In a house on Woodycrest, just below
165th Street and near the top of the hill.
Late at night, March 14, a fire broke out in the house, taking the lives of
five of the Magassa children, and four of the Soumare children, and their mother.
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Cranes
for the new Yankee Stadium.
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On a street a block
from the tragedy, the tops of construction cranes at the site of
the new stadium are visible. Near the house, many posters of condolence
have been placed on a fence. And in front of a store, owned, LPR
was told, by one of the families, candles and dolls represent
spontaneous expressions of sympathy for the aggrieved families.