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Kingsbridge Heights: Bronx Man Get 18 Years for Killing Wife in Front of 9-Year-Old Son in 2010

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Monday, July 10, that a Bronx man was sentenced to 18 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of fatally stabbing his wife in front of their 9-year-old son in 2010 inside her home in Kingsbridge Heights. The defendant had fled the state for several years and was apprehended in Las Vegas in 2022, according to the prosecution.   In the context of the announcement, Clark said, “The defendant killed his wife in front of their son and thought he could get away with it. He was tracked down, indicted,


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Van Cortlandt Village: Applications Filed with DOB to Expand 3-Story Structure into 5-Story at 3854 Bailey Ave

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Building applications have been filed with NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) to expand a three-story structure into a five-story, mixed-use building at 3854 Bailey Avenue in the Van Cortlandt Village section of The Bronx, according to YIMBY.   Located between West 238th Street and Van Cortlandt Avenue West, the lot is near the 238th Street subway station, serviced by the 1 train. Yitzi Salamon is listed as the owner behind the applications according to YIMBY.   The proposed 49-foot-tall development will yield 7,196 square feet designated for residential space. The building will have 16 residential units, most likely rentals based


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City Island Rising Pushes to Expand NYC Ferry Service & Hosts Narcan Training to Prevent Overdoses

By SÍLE MOLONEY
City Island Rising, a community based, non-profit association working to improve the City Island community with open discourse and civility towards all, tabled at the City Island Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Spring Arts and Craft Fair alongside Bronx Bound Books on June 3.   According to the organization, board members distributed hundreds of face masks, COVID-19 tests, and collected many signatures for a petition to expand the NYC Ferry Service to City Island. Currently, according to the organizers, the group has collected nearly 1,500 signatures for this effort.   During the final days of his administration, former New York City Mayor


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UPDATE Elections 2023: Bradshaw Takes Challenge of District 14 Seat to the Streets

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY
State committeewoman for Assembly District 78, Rachel Bradshaw, Fordham Hill Co-op board secretary, and candidate in the upcoming Democratic City Council primary election for District 14, joined a group of supporters on Saturday, May 27, as she took her campaign to unseat the incumbent, Council Member Pierina Sanchez who has held the seat since 2022, to the streets of Fordham Manor.   District 14 broadly encompasses some or all of the neighborhoods of Kingsbridge Heights, Fordham Manor, Fordham Heights, Bedford Park, University Heights, Mt. Hope and Morris Heights. It is bordered to the south by the Cross Bronx Expressway.  


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Inquiring Photographer: Thoughts on Former President Donald Trump’s Indictment on Federal Charges

By DAVID GREENE
This week, we asked readers for their thoughts on former U.S. President Donald Trump becoming the first former president of the United States to be indicted on federal charges.   “Well, if he did something wrong, he should be indicted. He seems like he’s scattered by one thing after another. I think he should be held responsible for it all. Will he be convicted? It’s hard to say because he has good lawyers and sometimes, he gets out of some things; it’s possible.” Mazie Robinson, Fordham Manor “Donald Trump is a person with every right accorded [to] someone accused of a


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Fordham Heights: Search for Missing 11-Year-Old Girl

By SÍLE MOLONEY  
The New York City Police Department is appealing to the public for help locating an 11-year-old girl from Fordham Heights who is reported missing.   Police said that Alema Kalic, 11, of 2436 Marion Avenue in Fordham Heights was last seen on Sunday, June 4, at approximately 10.30 a.m., leaving a family member’s home located at 731 Bryant Avenue in Hunts Point. Police said Alema is described as female, is 5 feet, 3 inches tall, and weighs around 130 pounds. They said she was last seen wearing a gray sweater, an orange shirt, blue shorts, and black sneakers.   Anyone


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Kingsbridge Heights: Two Arrested for Robbery following Assault & Robbery in April

By SÍLE MOLONEY  
The NYPD said two people have been arrested following a robbery and assault which took place in April 2023 in Kingsbridge Heights. Police had previously appealed to the public for help identifying the people seen in the attached photos who department officials said were sought for questioning in connection with the incident.    Police said that on Tuesday, April 11, at around 8.30 p.m., in front of 235 West Kingsbridge Road, a 64-year-old man was sitting in a wheelchair when two people approached him and demanded money.   “The victim refused, and the individuals proceeded to punch the victim in


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Final Kingsbridge Armory Workshop Held at Walton High School

By DAVID GREENE
  Several hundred members of different trade unions from across the City stood vigil down the block from Walton High School in Kingsbridge Heights on Wednesday, May 24, as city officials joined local residents for the final community input meeting to determine the future of the massive, vacant Kingsbridge Armory, located at Jerome Avenue and West Kingsbridge Road, also in Kingsbridge Heights. It has remained all but dormant for the better part of the last 20 years. Only Bronxites were allowed inside the school for the meeting.   The Kingsbridge Armory residents meeting kicked off at 5 p.m. at the


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Fordham Manor: AM George Alvarez Opens New Constituency Office at 2633 Webster Avenue

By SÍLE MOLONEY
  Under a dark Sunday afternoon downpour, Democratic Assembly Member George Alvarez (A.D. 78), elected as a rookie State assembly member last year after beating incumbent assemblyman José Rivera who held the seat for around two decades, opened a new, highly visible, street level constituency office at 2633 Webster Avenue in Fordham Manor on April 30.   Alvarez, a DR native, told those gathered that when he started his new role in January 2023, he inherited “an elegant, safe, cool office” on the 10th floor of a building located on Fordham Plaza. “It was safe because you had to get through


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