Bronx muralist and artist Laura Alvarez who, as reported, recently launched an online fundraiser to repaint the beloved "Norwood" mural, located on East 207th Street and Bainbridge Avenue in Norwood, after it was vandalized / tagged last year, is calling on the volunteers to join her in repainting the mural on Sunday, June 2, having carried out some preparatory work already on June 1.
A day before the defense rested its case in the first-ever criminal trial of a former president of the United States, and as build up surrounds a planned Trump rally in The Bronx on May 23, a Brooklyn man was spotted on East Fordham Road with a homemade doll he had created using a Donald Trump Halloween mask.
Environmental conservation group Future of Mosholu Parkland (FOMP) hosted a three-day event to celebrate Earth Day, on Thursday, April 18, Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21, in and around Norwood and Bedford Park.
New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez announced new incentives on Wednesday, April 24, to help reduce truck deliveries during the busiest hours of the day to improve traffic safety, protect the environment, and combat daytime congestion and double-parking.
A fire broke out in the historic Kingsbridge Armory on West Kingsbridge Road and Jerome Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights on Saturday afternoon, April 20, but appears to have been brought under control.
A 2023 City law which prohibits owners of commercial premises from knowingly leasing such commercial premises to, or otherwise allowing the use of such premises by, unlicensed smoke shops went into effect last July but is not being actively implemented, according to the city council.
Latinos Urbanos Book Club and the 4Bronx Project unveiled a new community library box, “Kingsbridge Community Library,” outside P.S. 207 on Godwin Terrace in Kingsbridge on Feb. 15. Laura Levine-Pinedo of the 4Bronx Project told News 12 The Bronx on the day of the launch, “Power is knowledge and having kids have access to books right here on the sidewalk - anybody can come up, take a book, leave a book - I think it’s a big win for the borough.”
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Tuesday, Feb. 13, that a Bronx woman has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the death by asphyxiation of her newborn twin daughter in September 2023, as reported. The woman later gave birth to a twin baby boy.
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit on Jan. 22 against Kofi Amankwaa, 69, a Bronx immigration lawyer, and others operating in his Concourse-located office, Sylvester Boateng, Nana Adoma Kontoh, Betty Smith, and Kofi Amankwaa Jr., 37, son of Kofi Amankwaa, for allegedly running an illegal scheme that scammed hundreds of vulnerable immigrants into paying thousands of dollars for fraudulent services that caused many to be deported or have their green card applications denied.
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