UPDATE First Bronx Baby of 2023 Born in the Montefiore Health System is a Girl!

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The following story has been updated based on new information received from Montefiore Health System. The first Bronx baby of the New Year to be born in the Montefiore Health System was a bouncing baby girl, Nova Marie Holder, who was born at 2.50 a.m. on Jan. 1 at Montefiore’s Jack D. Weiler Hospital in Morris Park. The little girl was born to parents, Kiana Baez and Brandon Holder, of The Bronx. Nova weighed in at 6 pounds, and measures 17 and a half inches. The second baby of the New Year who was born in

By SÍLE MOLONEY

On Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, at around 5.45 a.m., in front of 365 East 204th Street, an armed person chased a 31-year-old man on foot and fired multiple shots, striking the male victim in the back, chest, ear, and hand. Video courtesy of the NYPD NYPD officials said a 39-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an early morning shooting that occurred in Norwood in September 2022. As reported, police said that on Monday, Sept. 19, at around 5.45 a.m., in front of 365 East 204th Street, an armed person chased a 31-year-old man on foot and

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance locating the person seen in the attached photo who is being sought for leaving the scene of a motor vehicle collision in which injuries were sustained and which occurred in the the Mt. Hope section of The Bronx on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. Police said that on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, at around 11.50 a.m., a 43-year-old female victim was crossing the street at the intersection of Clay Avenue and East 175th Street when a red BMW sedan which, according to bystanders, was being driven recklessly at high speed, traveled through

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The NYPD confirmed on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 1, that the parents of an unidentified girl found alone on Dec. 31, in the Soundview section of The Bronx have been located and an investigation into the incident is currently ongoing. Earlier on Sunday, police had been appealing to the public for help identifying the young girl, pictured in the attached photo, and locating her parents or guardians. According to the NYPD, on Dec. 31, at 6:25 p.m. in front of 1208 Leland Ave in Soundview, the unidentified child had been observed walking alone and was removed to NYC Health

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The City’s public health system’s first baby of 2023 was welcomed at NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, 2023. Named Kingsley Mei, the baby boy weighs 6 pounds, 7.6 ounces, and measures 19 inches. Kingsley was born to parents, Dexin and Holly. This is the Brooklyn couple’s first boy. Later on New Year’s Day, at 9:04 a.m., NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln welcomed newborn baby boy, Emilio Araujo, who weighed in at 8 pounds and 15.7 ounces. As New Year’s Day drew to a close, at 11:30 p.m., NYC Health +

By DAVID GREENE

Police continue to investigate the disappearance and now mysterious death of New Rochelle resident and longtime DeWitt Clinton High School employee, Christopher Corcoran, 61, whose body was discovered in the woods on Hunter Island, just North of Orchard Beach, on Monday, Dec. 26. As reported, according to New Rochelle police, multiple law enforcement agencies had been looking for the employee of DeWitt Clinton High School, located in the Jerome Park section of The Bronx. who had disappeared without a trace nearly one month ago. Clinton faculty and students were notified of Corcoran’s passing on the school’s Instagram page

By DAVID GREENE

As the year draws to a close, we are continuing to publish some of the stories we couldn’t get to earlier this year [due to staff shortages]. An 18-wheel tractor-trailer knocked over a street sign on the border of Fordham Manor and University Heights after its rear wheels got caught on a relatively new pair of street bollards, two-foot-high plastic barricades designed to protect pedestrians on a traffic island and slow down city traffic. The NYPD reported the incident was the second such crash to have occurred at that particular location in less than 8 hours. An unnamed

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The NYPD is seeking the public’s help locating a 16-year-old girl reported missing in Wakefield. It was reported to police that Saniyah Roberts of 4426 Edson Avenue, Bronx, NY was last seen on Friday, Dec. 23, at around 7 a.m., leaving her home. She is described as 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighs around 150 pounds, has a medium build, brown eyes, and black hair. She was last seen wearing a black puffer coat with SpongeBob characters on it, red Uggs, and was carrying a red, Spray Grounds purse. Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Amid the winter storm, the NYC Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is reminding parents and caregivers with infants about the ways to keep their children safe while sleeping. Officials said there is serious danger associated with babies less than a year-old sleeping with parents in adult beds, or sleeping with blankets or quilts, which can create a risk of suffocation. To keep babies warm and safe, parents and caregivers are urged to dress them in an extra layer of infant clothing or in a wearable blanket, such as a sleep sack. ACS Commissioner Jess Dannhauser said, “With a winter

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