Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell Announces Rank Reinforcements to Curb Transit Crime

Newly appointed Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell announced on Wednesday, Jan. 6, a set of what were described as new innovative deployment strategies to reimagine the NYPD’s safety coverage of the City’s subway system. The formal announcement was made during a press conference that day together with Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric […]

UPDATE Oswald Feliz Regains District 15 Seat in General Election, Joins Adams’ Public Safety Transition Team

  As expected, District 15 City Councilman Oswald Feliz won the Nov. 2 District 15 City Council general election, regaining the seat he won for the first time in the March 2021 special election, as reported. Feliz won 70 percent of the vote share in the November general election, his third election of 2021, securing […]

UPDATE Eric Dinowitz Joined by Wide-Ranging Elected Officials for Inauguration at Lehman College

Editor’s Note: The following is an extended version of the story that appears in our latest print edition.   Elected officials from across New York State gathered inside the Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College for the formal inauguration of Democrat, Eric Dinowitz, as the city councilman of District 11 on Sunday, Dec. 5. The Bedford […]

Bronx CB7 Prepares Budget for Fiscal Year 2023

July 1, 2022, will mark the start of another fiscal year for New York City government, designated as FY 2023 (FY23). Although still seven months away, community boards across the city have started the process of submitting their annual Capital and Expense Budget Requests which inform the borough president, city council, and mayor about the […]

UPDATE Dinowitz Responds to 2nd Rally in a Month Where Anti-Semitic Imagery was Displayed

Bronx Jewish Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (A.D. 81) has formally responded to the organization of a second rally in a month, the latest held outside his Riverdale home on Sunday, Dec. 12, during which anti-Semitic imagery was, once again, on display. As reported by Norwood News, about 50 protestors showed up for the rally to oppose […]

UPDATE Protestors Rally Outside Jeffrey Dinowitz’s Home to Protest School Vaccination Bill

An estimated 50 protestors, some dressed in ultra-Orthodox Jewish attire, held a rally outside the home of Bronx, Jewish Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (A.D. 81), in the Riverdale section of the Bronx on Sunday, Dec. 12, displaying anti-Semitic imagery and protesting the assemblyman’s sponsoring of bill A8378, according to one witness who works for the assemblyman. […]