Kids

World-Renowned, Award-Winning Musicians to Perform for South Bronx Elementary Students  

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Zeta South Bronx Elementary School K-2nd grade students and staff are in for a treat on Monday, Feb. 13, when the South Bronx school will host a special musical performance by Liang Wang, principal oboist for the New York Philharmonic, and Junko Ichikawa, an award-winning pianist.   According to representatives of Zeta South Bronx Elementary School, located at 425 Westchester Avenue, part of the charter school’s whole-child education approach and its commitment to reversing the quality gap, includes providing students with a robust specialty curriculum and programming through which students can explore and discover their own unique interests and passions.


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Teen Critical after Stabbing in Kingsbridge Heights

By DAVID GREENE
  Parents making their routine trip to pick up their kids from school in Kingsbridge Heights were horrified recently to learn that a 16-year-old male youth had been stabbed. Police said the teen remains in critical condition as police search for the suspect who reportedly plunged a knife into the victim.   According to an NYPD official, the incident was reported at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31, on Jerome Avenue, between West 195th Street and West Kingsbridge Road on the border of Kingsbridge Heights and Fordham Manor.   The NYPD official told Norwood News, “A 16-year-old male was stabbed in the stomach


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Throggs Neck: Man in White Vehicle Sought for Attempted Luring of Child

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance locating the vehicle and individual seen in the attached video, the latter sought in connection to the attempted luring of a child on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Video courtesy of the NYPD   The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance locating the individual and vehicle seen in the attached video and photos in the context of the attempted luring of a child that occurred in Throggs Neck.   It was reported to police that on Wednesday, Feb. 1, at around 5.45 p.m., the victim, a 14-year-old girl, was walking in the


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Fordham Manor: Search for 15-Year-Old Missing Girl

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYPD is seeking the public’s help locating a 15-year-old girl reported missing from Fordham Manor.   It was reported to police that Ramiyah Halsey of 2650 Briggs Avenue was last seen on Monday, Feb. 6, at around 7 a.m., leaving her home.   The teen is described as female, is 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, and has brown eyes, and brown hair. She was last seen wearing a multi-colored jacket, blue jeans, and gray and white sneakers.   Anyone with information regarding this missing person is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS


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Pelham Parkway: Search for Missing 12-Year-Old Boy Last Seen at Allerton School

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYPD is asking for the public’s help locating a 12-year-old boy from the Pelham Parkway section of The Bronx who was reported missing on Tuesday, Feb. 7.   It was reported to police that Damare Chaplin-Rivers of 2175 Muliner Avenue in Pelham Parkway was last seen on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at approximately 3.25 p.m. when he was leaving his school, located at 2441 Wallace Avenue in Allerton.   Police said, “It has been confirmed that he did attend school, but did not return home.” They added that Damare is described as 5 feet, 2 inches tall, is Black, weighs


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Norwood’s P.S. / M.S. 20 Hydroponic Farm Program Expands to 20 Schools

By DAVID GREENE
Members of NY Sun Works, a non-profit that builds innovative science labs in urban schools, through its Greenhouse Project Initiative to educate students and teachers about the science of sustainability, joined Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson at Norwood’s P.S. / M.S. 20‘s hydroponic farm on Wednesday, Jan. 25, to announce the expansion of hydroponics farm technology to 20 local schools.   According to verticalroots.com, put simply, hydroponics is a way to skip the soil, sub in a different material to support the roots of the plant, and grow crops directly in nutrient-rich water.   The $2.5 million boroughwide project would


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Bowman, Booker Reintroduce African American History Act, Urge Nation to Tell the Truth About its Past

By SÍLE MOLONEY
  As February marks Black History Month, Democrats, Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D (NY-16) and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker reintroduced The African American History Act in both the House and the Senate and are urging leaders across the nation to tell the truth about the United States’ history of racism and white supremacy. The bill was reintroduced on Feb. 2 with over 100 original co-sponsors in the House, representatives for Bowman and Booker said.   “It is our moral imperative to tell the truth about our past to finally reconcile with this nation’s history of racism and white nationalism, and our


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UPDATE Marble Hill: Missing Girl Aged 12 Last Seen in Brooklyn, Home and “in Good Health”

By SÍLE MOLONEY
  The NYPD said a 12-year-old girl from Marble Hill who was reported missing on Tuesday, Jan. 31, has returned home and is “in good health.”   It was reported to police that, prior to returning home, Dayana Vazquez of Adrian Avenue in the Marble Hill section of The Bronx was last seen on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at around 7.47 a.m., leaving Prospect Park station in Brooklyn. She was walking toward M.S. 442 Carroll Garden School for Innovation, located at 500 19th Street.   She was described as female, 5 feet, 4 inches tall, Hispanic, weighing around 140 pounds, with


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Fatal Longwood Gunshot Victim, Josue Lopez-Ortega, Saves 7 People Through Organ Donation

By SÍLE MOLONEY
  The 15-year-old male gunshot victim who was fatally shot in the Longwood section of the Bronx on Jan. 19, as reported,  has provided the gift of life, via organ donation, saving seven people, according to LiveOnNY. The latter is a nonprofit, federally designated organ procurement organization (OPO) dedicated to saving lives, providing comfort, and strengthening legacies through organ, eye, and tissue donation.   Working closely with transplant centers and hospitals, LiveOnNY coordinates transplants, educates the public and healthcare professionals about donation and transplantation, and promotes the importance of signing up on the New York State Donate Life Registry.  


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