Bedford Park resident Julie Wallach is directing a play for the upcoming Strawberry One Act Festival in Manhattan.

Bedford Park Bred, Now She's Broadway Bound

Over a veggie burger and fries at the Bedford Café in Bedford Park, Julie Wallach loudly, almost theatrically, retells the highlights of her Bronx childhood.

The multi-talented Wallach, whose burgeoning career in show business is pushing her toward midtown Manhattan, still resides where she grew up. | Read More

Bainbridge Bakery Reinvents Itself

The Bainbridge Bakery, which was destroyed along with nine other businesses on Bainbridge Avenue last Halloween, has re-opened with a new a name and a new location. | Read More

Verizon Supports Youth Journalism

The Verizon Foundation has given a grant of $2,000 to the Bronx News Network in support of its Bronx Youth Journalism Initiative for high school students. The grant will go toward the publication of Bronx Youth Heard, the newspaper produced by the students. Bronx Youth Heard is inserted into the Norwood News, as well as the Mount Hope Monitor and the Tremont Tribune. | Read More

Evergreens Spruce up Fordham

The Fordham Road Business Improvement District (BID) unveiled new evergreen shrubs, flowers and ground covers in outdoor containers at Muller Triangle on East Fordham Road and Creston Avenue at East 190th Street. Sustainable South Bronx's Best Eco graduates assisted with the plantings earlier this month. | Read More

New Fordham Sneaker Shop

Victor's Footwear & Apparel, which opened less than a year ago in New Jersey, has now expanded to the shoe mecca of the Bronx: Fordham Road. It is Victor's only location in New York. | Read More