Category: The Bronx

Hundreds of new apartment units and a new grocery store are planned for the site of the Throggs Neck Super Foodtown and neighboring properties. A group of residents against the rezoning are appealing a judge’s order in a battle against the project. Photo Aliya Schneider The challengers of the Bruckner Boulevard rezoning are appealing a…

For Peter Quinn, “Cross Bronx: A Writing Life” is much more than just a memoir.  Certainly, Quinn’s personal and professional life provide plenty of fodder for a memoir, since he spent three decades as a speechwriter for two New York governors, Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo.  He also worked as a Wall Street messenger, a…

Police cars are parked outside the 40th NYPD Precinct in Mott Haven on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. Photo Camille Botello The NYPD is looking for a duo who they say committed a string of robberies last month, using similar tactics on each.  The first reported incident in the pattern took place in the 52nd Precinct…

Students of a new Hostos internship program collaborate on how to create their original video game. Photo courtesy Other Possible Games staff This summer, six Hostos Community College students participated in a unique opportunity to collaborate on an original video game, learn valuable work skills and earn course credit — all while getting paid by their…

A 32-year-old scooter driver was killed in a hit-and-run on the Cross Bronx Expressway on Aug. 21. Photo by Dean Moses A scooter driver was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver in the Bronx Monday afternoon, police said. The victim, a 32-year-old man, was hit by a 22-year-old man driving a Honda SUV traveling westbound…

Gov. Hochul announces the near-completion of new ramps and widening on the Bruckner Expressway on Aug. 21, 2023. Don Pollard / Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday that a project that aims to reduce truck traffic on local streets in the South Bronx is nearing completion. The project, which involves widening…

file photo A 24-year-old woman was fatally shot in the Bronx Sunday night, police said. The woman, identified as Lashawn Andrews, was gunned down outside an apartment building in the vicinity of East 178th Street and Park Avenue at around 11:30 p.m. Aug. 20. When police arrived on the scene, they found Andrews unconscious and…

Members of the Fordham Evangelical Lutheran Church are considering taking legal action following its abrupt closure. Photo Elizabeth Foster-Feigenbaum Members of the Fordham Evangelical Lutheran Church gathered for a candlelight vigil last month as part of their ongoing efforts to reopen their place of worship. Congregation members, friends and family gathered outside of the Walton…

File photo/Lloyd Mitchell Detectives in the Bronx are looking for the killer who shot a man dead early on Sunday morning. Police said the homicide happened at about 4:05 a.m. on Aug. 20 at the corner of Boynton and Watson Avenues in Soundview. That’s where officers from the 43rd Precinct found Joshters Mora, 22, shot…

A Bronx creep who tried to force a woman into performing a sex act on him at Crotona Park on Friday morning remains at large, police reported. The NYPD released on Saturday morning video footage of the deviant behind the attempted sexual assault, which occurred inside the park at about 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 18.…