When the film Fort Apache, The Bronx, starring Paul Newman as a conflicted cop patrolling a neighborhood ravaged by poverty and drugs, came out in 1981, it was a controversial hit. Local community ...
The most decorated cop in the NYPD’s history has died – decades after he patrolled a notorious part of the Bronx where he earned the reputation as a “one of a kind” leader who could “smell a gun from ...
In 1981, a film about police under fire in an embattled New York neighborhood ignited protests from local residents who demanded that the... On Location: 'Fort Apache,' A War Zone In The Bronx When ...