“Hiring Halls” Continue as Bronx Unemployment Rises

By MIRIAM QUIÑONES & SÍLE MOLONEY

About five hundred applicants showed up for another “Hiring Hall” job fair in The Bronx on Wednesday, June 21, this time at Lehman College in Bedford Park. Hosted, once again, by the NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), the event is part of a series of city government job fairs being held citywide in recent months.

Volunteers Clean VCP Pond as “Daylighting” of Tibbetts Brook Advances

By JOSÉ A. GIRALT

For most of the year, visitors to Van Cortlandt Park’s Hester & Piero’s Mill Pond are usually entertained by throngs of duck and geese flying and landing on the water. However, when the weather gets warm, an unwelcome, invasive guest makes an appearance, hindering the fowls’ routine of take-off and landing. That invader goes by the name “water chestnut.”

UPDATE Friends Honor Man Who Died after Being Held in Police Custody

By DAVID GREENE

More than two dozen friends of Justin “Gusto” Gidora, 36, gathered at Indian Field in Van Cortlandt Park just after sunset on Saturday, July 22, to remember a good-natured and apparently troubled, young man who died under mysterious circumstances after being held in police custody, as previously reported.

2nd Food & Farm Walking Tour Takes in Bedford Park & Norwood

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The 2nd Bronx Food & Farm Walking Tour of 2023 around the historic Bedford Park and Norwood neighborhoods took place on Saturday, July 22, in conjunction with New York Botanical Garden/Bronx Green-Up, Montefiore Einstein, Friends of Mosholu Parkland, The James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center, and B Blossom Catering, a plant-based gourmet food company.

Inquiring Photographer: Thoughts on Expansion of Bulletproof Vest Program to all School Safety Agents

By DAVID GREENE

This week, we asked readers their thoughts on the pilot program now expanding to all public schools whereby bulletproof vests are being provided to all school safety agents.

Food Program ‘Prescribing’ Fresh Produce Launches in The Bronx

By ARIEL PACHECO

Healthcare professionals will now get the opportunity to prescribe healthy fresh foods to select families in The Bronx through a new pilot program. Retail chain, Stop & Shop, The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM), About Fresh nonprofit, and Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson announced the launch of a new program on July 12.

Amid a Heatwave Forecast, EMS, DSS & Health Officials Advise New Yorkers How to Beat the Heat

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The New York City Emergency Management Department and the health department advised New Yorkers on Tuesday, July 25, to take precautions to beat the heat in the coming days. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for New York City, starting this Thursday, July 27.

UPDATE Crotona: Ten Injured in Multiple Car Crash

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Ten people were injured following a multiple vehicle collision which involved an MTA bus and at least two other cars in the Crotona section of The Bronx on Sunday.

UPDATE Mt. Hope: Three Arrested following Fatal Shooting of One & Injury to Three Others

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Police said three people have now been arrested after a 34-year-old man died and three others were injured following a multiple shooting in the Mt. Hope section of The Bronx in 2023.