Category: The Bronx

Dr. Yonette Davis, originally from Guyana, remembers her first visit to an American emergency room.  She was around 10 years old, and she had a cut on her hand from roughhousing with her brothers. When she arrived at the ER, all the doctors were white — no one working there looked like her. And though…

Police comb the tracks on the 4 line following a shooting at a Bronx station on Feb. 12, 2024. Photo by Dean Moses Bronx detectives have cuffed a teenage suspect allegedly involved in Monday’s shooting at a 4 train station, as NYPD investigations reveal a picture of two warring gangs. Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny…

The NYPD surveys the tracks at Mount Eden Avenue station following the subway shooting on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. Photo Dean Moses In response to Monday’s shooting at the Mount Eden Avenue subway station in the Bronx, U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres has written a letter asking for an increase in Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) funding…

Chelsea Macklin lights a candle at the inaugural Underground Railroad ceremony in the Bronx. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann Perrin Lawton is on a mission. The 34-year-old blogger from the Bronx runs the Instagram account “da_bronx_is_beautiful,” which informs people about all the borough has to offer, ranging from history, art, music and the culinary scene to…

One person has died and another was critically injured in an early morning fire in Mount Hope, according to authorities. File photo Lloyd Mitchell One person has died and another was critically injured in an early morning fire in Mount Hope on Thursday, according to authorities. The two-alarm fire broke out on the third floor…

Richeiny Pimentel-Soto, a high school senior, leads a group of seventh graders in a game of anatomy Pictionary on Feb. 14, 2024. Photo Emily Swanson High school senior Richeiny Pimentel-Soto does not have a typical after-school job. Instead of flipping burgers or ringing up customers, she’s busy answering questions like “What’s a vulva?” “Can people…

Police are searching for a pair of suspects behind the gunpoint robbery of a 62-year-old man in Williamsbridge. Photo courtesy NYPD Police are searching for a pair of suspects behind the gunpoint robbery of a 62-year-old man in Williamsbridge last week. The victim was in the vicinity of East 213 Street and Holland Avenue —…

Photo Getty Images A Bronx man with 19 previous arrests on his record was apprehended Wednesday and charged in connection with the murder of a Kingsbridge Heights man who was fatally shot less than a mile away from his home last week. Police announced the arrest of 46-year-old Deshaun Coleman, of Sedgwick Avenue, who was…

Police are searching for a man with “bloodshot eyes” who saw green when he tried to rob a Bronx check cashing business last week by sticking his hand under his jacket and pretending to have a gun, authorities said. NYPD Police are searching for a man with “bloodshot eyes” who saw green when he tried…

Morris Park resident and artist Lovie Pignata begins carving her piece, ‘Smitten’, from a block of ice during the Governors Island Ice Sculpture Show. ‘Smitten’ will be recreated in Times Square for viewing for Valentine’s Day. Photo courtesy Camelia Tepelus Bronx artist Lovie Pignata took the grand prize in the Feb. 3 Governors Island ice-sculpting…