In our latest print edition, we asked readers for their thoughts on this year’s rise in complaints over illegal fireworks in the neighborhood and across the City. I still hear some every now and then. I still hear a few going off mainly at night but sometimes you don’t know if it’s a gunshot. […]
The following article is the second of a two-part feature story on the resonance of the Black Lives Matter protests in the Bronx. Part II Stories like the ones that follow are all too familiar in the Bronx. It is not only in the streets of the City where tensions are rising […]
A City employee was arrested according to the NYPD.
Eighteen days after rioters burned and looted dozens of stores in the Fordham Heights and Kingsbridge sections of the Bronx, police say three men have been charged with the daylight burglary of Modell’s Sporting Goods on East Fordham Road, a store that had closed due to bankruptcy on Apr. 15 following a period of poor […]
As the Black Lives Matter movement continues with protests entering a fourth week in cities across America in response to the May 25th death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, individual cities are looking into their own practices and policies regarding the use of force, and are coming to grips with racial disparities within their own […]
Black Lives Matter protests in the Bronx started peacefully on Monday, Jun. 1, as they had done on Sunday, May 31. as reported. By the early hours of Tuesday morning, however, as yet unidentified groups had caused the borough to descend into chaos, marked by multiple arrests, looting, fires, clashes with police, at least one […]
For about the last 18 years, volunteers across New York State have been placing American flags at the gravestones of thousands of U.S. military members on Memorial Day. Sadly, this year most graves went “un-flagged” because of prevailing social distancing restrictions. In past years, Lynn Radke and Bruce Campbell of Woodlawn Conservancy in […]
In response to a distinct uptick in midnight fireworks concentrated in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, Council Member Andrew Cohen, and Congressman Eliot Engel have issued the following statement: “We appreciate that some of our neighbors want to show their support for essential workers and that using small firecrackers – […]
Council Member Fernando Cabrera, Victor Rivera, CEO of Bronx Parent Housing Network, and community residents distributed free food and masks on Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at Jerome Avenue and W. Kingsbridge Road. Fresh and hot food (rice and chicken) was given out to everybody in line. “The most recent numbers show the Bronx […]
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