Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark and New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced details, on June 24, of another Bronx Gun Buyback event, where people can turn in operable handguns or assault rifles, no questions asked, and receive a cash card and free iPad. As reported, such gun buyback events have been held […]
June marks Gun Violence Awareness Month across the country. In the Bronx, lawmakers pushed for more stringent gun reform laws, increased federal funding for local cure violence programs, an anti-gun violence rally took place along Valentine Avenue, and other rallies are planned throughout the remainder of the month, all in efforts to address what has […]
This is an extended version of the story that appears in our latest print edition. A Laborers’ union representative is calling out elected officials to address “corporate greed” amid news of an elevator collapse in the South Bronx last week that left one person dead and another critically injured. As reported by Norwood News, the […]
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark has released the findings of a 23-page report on the Public Integrity Bureau’s investigation into an incident involving Bronx teen, Jahmel Leach, and the NYPD which took place on Fordham Road on June 1, 2020. A video of the incident was also released on the same day, May 18. […]
This is a developing story. FDNY has confirmed that an elevator collapsed at 8.17 a.m. on Wednesday, May 19, at 20 Bruckner Blvd in Port Morris in the South Bronx. One person was found dead on arrival at the scene and another is critical. The incident was also reported on the Citizen’s App and […]
For the twelfth time in 13 years, a Bedford Park senior says he has suffered through a flood of rushing water pouring into his home. However, this time, he said the cascading water brought down the ceiling on top of his head in a spare room adjacent to his living room. Longtime tenant, […]
Local elected officials and community leaders rallied alongside tenants at Grand Concourse and East Fordham Road in Fordham Heights, Saturday, March 27, demanding a solution to what they believe may be a wave of inevitable evictions of long-term tenants from one residential building, following the purchase of their apartments by a new owner. Pierina […]
Thirteen years after a foiled plot to blow up a synagogue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, the NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance identifying an individual seen in the attached surveillance video and photos, who is wanted for questioning with regard to multiple acts of vandalism/criminal mischief targeting Jewish centers and cars in […]
A lifelong resident of Van Nest, founder of the Van Nest Neighborhood Alliance, and a Bronx Community Board 11 (CB 11) board member since 2011, Bernadette Ferrara is one of ten candidates in the District 15 City Council District race, aiming to fill the seat vacated by former councilman and now Congressman Ritchie Torres. […]
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