Category: The Bronx

Police are still looking for a third suspect in connection to a Nov. 13, 2023, incident where a group of males attacked police officers at Freeman Station. Photo courtesy NYPD Three uniformed police officers were assaulted in two separate incidents in the Bronx over the past week, with both cases taking place inside subway stations.…

It was a warm September night in Kingsbridge when renowned graffiti artist Michael Christopher Tracy was grabbing a late-night bite at the Wendy’s on 238th Street and Broadway and suffered a massive heart attack. He was dead at the age of 65. “I didn’t find out until last week,” his estranged son, Shawn Tracy, told the Bronx…

The Twin Parks North West apartment building commands the Fordham Heights skyline on a late afternoon in December 2022. Photo Aliya Schneider Almost two years after New York City’s deadliest fire in three decades, lawsuits that have arisen from the blaze remain in limbo. According to an Oct. 31 order issued by Judge Raymond Fernandez,…

Runner David Kilgore waves at spectators as he makes his way through the Bronx during the 52nd TCS NYC Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. Photo Gabriel Rodriguez-Tossas David Kilgore, an internationally recognized ultra-marathon runner known as “Florida Man,” has found a home in the Bronx finishing this year’s New York City Marathon as the fastest Bronxite and…

SNACC is an after-school cooking program working with mostly Bronx students that provides kitchen tools and food delivery for free. It teaches students how to prepare nutritious meals for themselves and their family. Photo ET Rodriguez Imagine receiving a starter kit filled with all the basic kitchen tools, a delivery of fresh groceries every week…

Lithium-ion batteries have been linked to 14 deaths across the city. Photo courtest FDNY File photo/FDNY On Thursday, FDNY responded to a fire just before 5 p.m. Thursday in the basement of the Hong Kong Chinese restaurant in Melrose, where, once again, lithium-ion batteries appeared to have played a role. An FDNY spokesperson confirmed with the Bronx Times that “lithium…

Bronx officials announced on Nov. 2, 2023 three arrests and more than 55 pounds of confiscated contraband at recent smoke shop raid. Photo courtesy Office of Assembly Member John Zaccaro New York Assemblymember John Zaccaro Jr., announced his office carried out another pair of smoke shop raids last week — which this time resulted in…

The body was removed by the medical examiner’s office. Photo by Dean Moses The homeless man who was found burned to death on the top floor of a Bronx apartment on Wednesday may have accidentally set himself alight in a drug-fueled stupor, police sources said. Guillermo Navedo, 39, was discovered dead on the top floor…

A century ago, Lindo and Maria Borgatti packed their bags in Bologna, Italy, and sailed over the Atlantic in pursuit of a new life in the United States. With them, they took Maria Borgatti’s family recipes, which would serve as the groundwork for the small family business they eventually opened on Nov. 28, 1935 on…

Locals wept after a man was found burned to death in the Bronx. Photo by Dean Moses A community is in mourning after a Bronx man was apparently burned to death inside an apartment building on Wednesday, authorities and residents said. Residents of 399 East 160th Street wept profusely outside of the apartment building, huddling…