Category: The Bronx

A redesign along Sheridan Boulevard is meant to improve safety and access to the connector. Photo courtesy NYC DOT On Wednesday, the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) unveiled changes along Sheridan Boulevard to improve safety and local access to the road. The project is part of the $1.7 billion Hunts Points Access Improvement…

The Bronx County Courthouse is seen on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. Photo Camille Botello A Bronx man is due in court Tuesday for a double homicide he allegedly committed last month.  Derrick Williams, 55, was charged for his alleged role in the killings of Bronx residents Gina Cooks and Roberto Jimenez last month. He is…

A man from Queens died on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023 after crashing his vehicle in the Northeast Bronx. Photo courtesy Getty Images A Queens resident died on the Hutch in the early hours on Labor Day after hitting a pole and a tree. Police responded to a vehicle collision on the Hutchinson River Parkway at…

File photo/Lloyd Mitchell The suspect who shot a man dead in the Bronx early on Saturday morning remains at large, police reported. Law enforcement sources said the deadly gun violence erupted at about 2:38 a.m. on Sept. 2 in front of an apartment building at 1070 Elder Ave. in Soundview.  Officers from the 43rd Precinct,…

A Bronx man died after being smashed in the head with a glass bottle during a dispute on Sept. 1, 2023. Photo via Getty Images A Bronx man died hours after someone smashed a glass bottle over his head during a dispute early on Friday morning, police reported. Authorities said Mario Fernandez, 50, suffered a…

Icahn 7 middle school, located inside P.S. 107 in Soundview. Photo Emily Swanson Edward Tom is out as superintendent of the Icahn Charter Schools network, the Bronx Times has learned, following a controversy over mass firings of teachers at Icahn 7 on the last day of school in June. In an Aug. 28 letter to…

Bronxites gather together for International Overdose Awareness Day on Thursday, Aug. 31 at Jacobi Medical Center. Photo courtesy Alex Porco Bronxites came together Thursday on International Overdose Awareness Day to honor those who died from overdoses, celebrate those who live in recovery and call for awareness and action. One of the day’s events took place…

A moped operator was pronounced dead at Jacobi Medical Center after driving into a parked car this week. File Photo Paige Perez A 47-year-old died after crashing his moped into a parked car in Harding Park on Tuesday. At about 12:42 a.m. early Tuesday morning, police responded to a call of a vehicle collision at Soundview…

Ever since speed cameras in NYC expanded to 24/7 operations last summer, two Bronx locations saw particular changes. File photo/Pablo D. Castillo Jr. Data released by the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) Monday shows that Bruckner Boulevard and Tremont Avenue have seen the biggest impacts since speed camera hours expanded last summer. The cameras, which can…

At the southernmost end of Alexander Avenue just across the Harlem River from Manhattan sits an independent school that has been teaching the Bronx’s youth about the power of storytelling for nearly a quarter century now.  The Ghetto Film School in Mott Haven is by no means distasteful as its name, taken literally, implies. It’s actually…