Category: The Bronx

Although no one knows how Thursday’s Supreme Court decision to strike down a decades-long affirmative action precedent will affect the nation’s colleges and universities, Fordham University officials say they remain committed to fostering racial diversity in its student body. The original precedent was set by the court case Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003, at which…

File photo/Lloyd Mitchell Two separate shootings in the Bronx that occurred hours apart on Sunday night and early Monday morning left seven people injured — including two men who were critically wounded.  A 12-year-old girl was one of four victims in the first shooting, which occurred at about 9:45 p.m. on July 2 in front…

Newly minted interim Police Commissioner Edward Caban on Sunday visited the hospital-bound five-year-old girl who was shot in the back over the weekend. Photo by Dean Moses Newly minted interim Police Commissioner Edward Caban on Sunday visited the hospital-bound five-year-old girl who was shot in the back over the weekend as department sources say they…

Security camera footage of the suspect, cops say, smashed the window of a subway conductor after a dispute aboard a train in the Bronx. NYPD A verbal dispute aboard a Bronx subway car turned violent over the weekend, when cops say a straphanger smashed the train conductor’s glass window, causing injury and chaos during an…

File photo/Lloyd Mitchell A 5-year-old girl is recovering at a Bronx hospital Saturday after being shot in the back on Friday night, police reported. Detectives, meanwhile, continue to seek the suspect who fired the stray shot near the corner of East 214th Street and White Plains Road in Olinville at about 7:03 p.m. on June…

From left: Paul DiSilvio, owner of La Casa Grande cigar shop and “Chazz” Palminteri, Hollywood actor, writer, director and Bronx native at the launch of Palminteri’s new “Bronx Tale” cigar on Wednesday, June 28. Photo ET Rodriguez It was a red-carpet affair at the Arthur Avenue Retail Market on Wednesday as dozens crowded the street.…

As weeks have gone by since the May 10 crash, the driver of that car — who fled the scene on foot — has yet to be identified or found by police. Photo courtesy Getty Images The passenger of a car that fled from police on Riverside Drive and subsequently crashed into a tractor trailer…

Customers wait on line to enter a Trader Joe’s in Lower Manhattan. Despite residents requests, the Bronx remains the only borough without one. Photo Tequila Minsky People love Trader Joe’s, although Bronxites wouldn’t necessarily know why. The supermarket chain ranked No. 4 in Axios’ Harris Poll 100 rankings for U.S. companies with the most visible…

Police are looking for this man who cops say sexually abused two children in the Bronx The police are looking for a man wanted in connection to two sex crimes involving children in the Bronx. The suspect allegedly targeted his first victim, a 10-year-old girl, shortly after midnight on March 11, 2021, inside a private…

File photo/Lloyd MItchell Bronx detectives are questioning a person of interest connected to a homeless man’s deadly stabbing early on Friday morning. Law enforcement sources said the homicide happened at about 12:16 a.m. on June 30 near the corner of West 236th Street and Broadway in Kingsbridge. Officers from the 50th Precinct, in responding to…