Category: The Bronx

File photo/Lloyd Mitchell Bronx detectives are seeking the suspect who shot and killed a man on Thursday night. Police said the homicide happened at about 8:29 p.m. on Oct. 5 at 985 East 174th St. in Charlotte Gardens, a mixed-use building with a storefront on the ground floor and apartments above. Officers from the 42nd…

Melvin Java, 46, was tracked down and arrested in Pennsylvania by the U.S. Marshals Service and the New York/New Jersey Regional Task Force for the Sept. 17 execution-style shooting of Marcelino Valerio, his own stepfather, authorities said. Photo by Dean Moses Law enforcement officials on Thursday cuffed the gunman they believe shot his 80-year-old stepfather…

The police are looking for three suspects, pictured, who allegedly attacked a 13-year-old girl in the Bronx Monday A 13-year-old girl was pepper-sprayed and slashed in the head by three suspects at a NYCHA housing complex in the Bronx on Monday, police said. The girl allegedly got into a dispute with the perpetrators at the…

Despite attempts from local leaders to address constituent complaints, the fight to shut down illegal smoke shops in the Bronx seems far from over. With the legal dispensary rollout in shambles and a statewide legal battle halting an already slow-moving launch, the growth of unregulated smoke shops has exploded since recreational marijuana was legalized in…

Stumped on how to solve e-scooters ending up in the Bronx River, one company has partially suspended service because of it. Veo — one of the three e-scooter companies participating in the East Bronx e-scooter pilot — removed access along the Bronx River Parkway because of people regularly vandalizing the devices, throwing them into the river and…

This man, seen on a surveillance footage, is sought by police for punching an MTA employee at a Bronx subway station. Photo courtesy of the NYPD Cops are looking for a suspect who assaulted an MTA employee at a Bronx subway station this week. It was reported to police that at 11:55 a.m. on Sept.…

Heavy rain and severe flooding closed off the Bronx River Parkway at Nereid Avenue on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. Photo courtesy NYPD A week of rain was nothing compared to what was to come for New Yorkers on Friday. Several transit routes heavily relied on by Bronxites were suspended, including three lines of the Metro-North…

Emely Chavez, co-founder of Statis, celebrates the opening of the first dispensary in the Bronx. Photo courtesy Alexis Isaacs The first legal recreational cannabis dispensary in the Bronx is expanding its reach while the second is still stuck in limbo, waiting on the “green” light to open. Levent and Denis Ozkurt, who thought they were given the…

The fentanyl and paraphilia sized from the Bronx apartment of Juan Gabriel Herrera Vargas. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York Authorities seized over 40 pounds of fentanyl from an alleged drug mill in the Bronx connected to the daycare center where a 1-year old child…

Migrants sit in despair after a Midtown hotel reached capacity on July 30, 2023. File photo/Dean Moses A Northeast Bronx hotel that just opened in March is looking to house migrants. Arpit Patel, the owner of the Royal Hotel Bronx, located at 3362 Boston Road, will request the support of Community Board 12 at its 7 p.m. general board meeting…