Category: The Bronx

At the Charles Drew Campus at East 170th Street and Third Avenue, many of the services students need to be healthy and productive — such as medical care, afterschool activities and counseling — are under one roof. But kids also need food — and many families in the Bronx struggle to get enough. Enter the…

The Bronx Defenders announced Tuesday that the NYPD agreed to pay $125,000 to their client Cheyenne Lee, who accused nine officers from the 42nd Precinct of unlawfully entering her apartment and falsely arresting her and her teenage cousin.  “The NYPD had no right to barge into my house, illegally arrest me, and terrorize my family,”…

A person walks by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine one the NYC Health + Hospitals Jacobi campus on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Photo Camille Botello The Bronx’s own Albert Einstein College of Medicine received the largest medical school donation in the country this week, which will guarantee that no Einstein student will have to…

Two people board the new elevator from the street to the Tremont Avenue subway station. Photo Marc Hermann The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced that the Bronx’s Tremont Avenue subway station, running B and D trains, is now fully accessible in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with the addition of three new…

42-year-old Alfredo Trinidad grinned at cameras Monday night after being charged with a fatal shooting aboard a Bronx train. Photo by Dean Moses The three suspects connected to a deadly Bronx subway shooting last weekend each faced the walk of shame late Monday night and early Tuesday morning in dramatic fashion. Two of the perpetrators…

Two of the suspects in the Bronx stabbing. Photo courtesy of the NYPD Police are looking for the group who violently stabbed a man aboard a Bronx bus earlier this month.  According to police, the 35-year-old victim was riding the Bx19 bus near E. 149th Street and St. Ann’s Avenue in the South Bronx at…

Kerene Edie walked into Hair By Dee in Van Nest for her 1 p.m. appointment on Feb. 20 in bejeweled jeans and a blush pink sweater. Her demeanor was light and her smile wide as she greeted Denisse Uribe Palin, the owner of the hair salon, before her appointment — but getting her hair done…

Investigators believe that 24-year-old Justin Herde, 38-year-old Betty Cotto, and 42-year-old Alfredo Trinidad are allegedly responsible for killing 45-year-old William Alvarez as the train rattled into the East 182 Street and Grand Concourse Subway Station at around 5:02 a.m. on Friday. Photo courtesy of the NYPD Police in the Bronx have identified three suspects whom,…

The corner of Hunts Point Avenue and Gilbert Place in the Bronx, where two men were shot and wounded on Feb. 23, 2024. Photo via Google Maps Police in the Bronx are still looking for the suspect who shot two men at an intersection on Friday night.  Law enforcement sources said the double shooting occurred…

A mockup of the future H.E.A.rts Community Center was on display at the press conference on Feb. 22, 2024. Photo Emily Swanson A project that South Bronx community leaders have envisioned for over a decade is inching closer to fruition. On Feb. 22, leaders from South Bronx Unite, the Mott Haven Port Morris Community Land…