UPDATE Kingsbridge Road Shooting Victim “Never had a Father or Mother and He Tried to Survive”
As a group of young men continued a vigil for a third day outside FM Candy and Grocery Corp, located at 131 West Kingsbridge Road in Fordham Manor, residents of NYCHA’s Bailey Houses, located on Heath Avenue also in Fordham Manor, remembered resident, Hasan Richburg, 26, who, as reported, was shot multiple times outside 131 West Kingsbridge Road on Thursday, Feb. 8 and later died of his injuries.
Yonkers Police Department Arrests, Charges Mother in Abandoned Newborn Investigation
UPDATE Bedford Park: 14-Year-Old Girl Reported Missing Now Safe
UPDATE Bedford Park: Man Arrested, Woman Fatally Shot, One Teen, One Child Stable in Early Morning Tragedy
Four days before Valentine’s Day, ironically, tragedy has struck the Bedford Park community by Valentine’s Avenue and East 203rd Street once more, as a woman, a teen, and a young child were seemingly gunned down in their home in the early hours of Saturday morning. The woman is dead and the two other victims are stable, police said.
North Central Bronx Hospital Unveils New Employee Wellness Room
NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx (NCB) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Jan. 24 as the public hospital unveiled a brand-new, employee wellness room. Jeremy Segall, assistant vice president of human experience at NYC Health + Hospitals said of the occasion, “The opening of the workforce wellness room is a pivotal moment for permanence of well-being across our system, to have a workforce wellness room where people can come to take time to connect with their own concrete needs.”
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Dinowitz Leads “Historic” Passage of Bill to Enhance Housing Security for Older Adults
New York City Council passed what was described as a groundbreaking piece of legislation, sponsored by Bronx Council Member Eric Dinowitz (C.D. 11), on Thursday, Feb. 8. The bill aims to ease the burden when applying to the older adult rent freeze program on the City’s older adults living in City-run, Mitchell-Lama housing.