Circus Back in Town, Looking for a Home
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
It's not every day you see basketball-carrying unicyclists playing double-dutch on the Grand Concourse. But there they were, three members of the legendary Bronx-born King Charles Troupe, doing their thing on a windy, chilly Friday morning in front of the...
Church Vows to Rebound After 'Suspicious' Fire
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
Immediately after a fire ripped through the vestibule of St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church, causing severe damage last Friday morning, parishioners expressed relief and hopes for a quick rebound. On Sunday, the church held service as usual in their elementary...
Local Residents Press DOT on Dangerous U-Heights Intersection
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
William Clark looks at the "T" that makes up the intersection of Sedgwick Avenue and 183rd Street and remembers the gruesome death of an older man who tried unsuccessfully to cross from one side of 183rd Street to the other....
Diaz Gives First 'State of Borough' Address
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
Borough presidents may not have as much power as the city comptroller or Council speaker, but you wouldn't know it from the scene last week at the Evander Childs High School campus where those officials and many, many more -...
Cabrera's New Web site
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
On Monday, 14th District Councilman Fernando Cabrera unveiled a new Web site (councilmancabrera.com) that he says constituents can use to log complaints (using a handy Google Maps application), alert the councilman to problems and find out about policy issues and...
Two Bronxites Named to Charter Commission
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed two prominent northwest Bronxites to a long-awaited 15-member Charter Revision Commission, which will take a look at the entire City Charter and propose any possible changes....
Local Pols, Union Members Rally for Good Jobs
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
Alba Vazquez immigrated to America in 1977 from her native Uruguay, where a military dictatorship had seized power a few years prior. She settled in the Bronx with the hopes of building a safer, more prosperous life for herself and...
MTA Service Cuts Slammed at Bronx Hearing
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
A flood of outraged residents and elected officials lined up to voice their concerns to MTA board members last night at a public hearing at the Paradise Theater on the Grand Concourse. The transit agency has proposed drastic service cuts...
Costly Cleanup Stalls Harris Field Project
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
Sonia Lappin looks out over Harris Field from her Bedford Park apartment building and sees a glorious past - a community space used by generations of local families for everything from ball games to picnics - and an uncertain future....
Assessing the Bronx's 'Most Dangerous Road'
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
A total of five pedestrians were killed on Gun Hill Road in 2006 and 2007. Because of this cluster of deaths and a total of 57 serious accidents between 2006 and 2008, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign (TSTC) named Gun Hill...
Espada: Housing Bill Will Freeze Rents for Poor
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
A new housing bill introduced by State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr., which proposes to freeze rent increases for close to 300,000 qualifying city households, has riled some housing advocates who say the bill is pro-landlord legislation in disguise....
Carlos Gonzalez Steps Out Of Father's Shadow
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
It's not easy being the son of a former politician who is best known for being indicted by federal prosecutors. But Carlos Gonzalez, the son of ex-State Senator Efrain Gonzalez, is determined to make his own name for himself in...
Bill Clinton Tells Bronx To 'Face Future Together'
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
More than 1,000 invited guests jammed the Dreiser Loop Auditorium in Co-op City for Bronx/Queens Congressman Joseph Crowley's 11th Annual Black History Month celebration, which this year featured keynote speaker former President Bill Clinton....
Cabrera Opens Up Grant Application Process
March 11, 2010 06:00 PM
Councilman Fernando Cabrera, who is in Israel this week on a junket with Speaker Christine Quinn, wants to open up the process by which nonprofit organizations receive discretionary grant allocations....
New Boss Brings New Approach to the Five-Two
February 11, 2010 11:31 AM
With the black netting shroud now removed after months of brick pointing work, the exterior of the 52nd Precinct headquarters on Webster Avenue looks relatively fresh and vibrant. The commander's office, inside the landmarked building, with its new couches and...
Five-Two Cops Suspended for Beating Suspect
February 11, 2010 11:31 AM
Two cops from the 52nd Precinct have been suspended without pay after a video surfaced of them pounding and kicking a handcuffed suspect after a failed drug bust near the corner of Davidson Avenue and Fordham Road in early January....
Norwood Murder Precinct's First in Months
February 11, 2010 11:31 AM
A man identified as Victor Anderson, 26, of Brooklyn, was murdered early Saturday morning, Jan. 30, on Dekalb Avenue, just north of Gun Hill Road in the Norwood section of the Bronx....
Youth Haven Back With Renewed Focus
February 11, 2010 11:31 AM
Twice a week after school for the past few months, a group of preteens have gathered in a brightly-painted basement youth center beneath the gray streets of the Knox-Gates neighborhood to create multimedia "time capsules" about their lives. The multimedia-focused...
Bx. Science Hoopsters Win and Shed Stereotypes
February 11, 2010 11:31 AM
Fans and visitors entering the Bronx High School of Science gymnasium are greeted with a huge placard featuring the faces of seven stoic looking men arranged underneath the text "Alumni Winners of the Nobel Prize." But to believe that brains...
Exclusive: A Potential Espada Challenger Emerges
February 11, 2010 11:31 AM
Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter, a Bronx activist who became the face of last year's strong community push for living wage jobs at the Kingsbridge Armory, is exploring the possibility of making a run at the state Senate seat occupied by Pedro Espada,...
