Category: The Bronx

Bronx Council Member Oswald Feliz speaks at the Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection hearing at City Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. Screenshot NYC Council The New York City Council chambers were split over legislation from a Bronx council member presented during a committee hearing on Jan. 31, which would require delivery workers to…

A Bronx man has been charged with production, distribution and possession of child pornography — some of which included his own daughter, according to federal prosecutors. The complaint against Derick Colon, 24, alleges that around Jan. 19, he shared videos with someone via a social media network that depicted him “engaged in sexually explicit conduct…

The suspect who stabbed a man near a Met Food supermarket on White Plains Road in the Bronx in December 2023. Photo via Google Maps/Inset courtesy of NYPD Bronx detectives are looking for the deranged individual who repeatedly stabbed a man near a supermarket last month. The NYPD released on Jan. 31 an image of…

The White Castle at 550 E. Fordham Rd. has been celebrating Valentine’s Day for decades and has hosted weddings, too. Photo ET Rodriguez Valentine’s Day is around the corner, which means that White Castles in the Bronx — and across the country — will be transforming their eateries into pink and red-colored “LOVE Castles” adorned…

When Bronx woman Cheree Evans entered the Williamsbridge Center nursing facility in November, she had only a vague memory and a desperate hope that her uncle, Freddy Simmons — a man she calls her father figure — would be there. Until November, Evans had only seen her uncle once in the past 13 years. That…

Venu Gopal, pictured at work on Jan. 29, 2024, sold the $1M winning ticket on Jan. 26. Photo Emily Swanson Someone who bought a Mega Millions ticket at a South Bronx gas station is $1 million richer today — and might not even know it yet.  The winning ticket was sold at the Shell station…

Bronx Community Board 7 voted this week not to recommend a new cannabis dispensary on Jerome Avenue, with the location joining a string of at least 25 others across the borough that have been trashed by community boards since the state opened its general cannabis application period last October.  The dispensary in question, NutraLeaf LLC,…

Police are searching for the crook who threatened a man with a knife before striking him in the head with a wooden stick and robbing him of his cellphone and cash in Kingsbridge Heights Photo courtesy NYPD Police are searching for the crook who threatened a man with a knife before striking him in the…

Police announced the arrest of a Bronx man who has been charged with murder in connection with a fatal Mount Hope shooting in November 2023. File photo by Lloyd Mitchell Police on Wednesday night announced the arrest of a Bronx man who has been charged with murder in connection with a fatal Mount Hope shooting…

Mayor Eric Adams faced a coalition of demonstrators as his motorcade pulled up in the Bronx for his State of the City Address on Wednesday. Photo by Dean Moses Where the mayor went Wednesday, the protesters followed.  Mayor Eric Adams faced a coalition of boisterous demonstrators as his motorcade pulled up in the Bronx for…