Category: The Bronx

Detectives in the Bronx continue to seek the suspect who gunned down an 18-year-old man from Harlem on Friday evening. Police said that Nixon Rodriguez, 18, of Madison Avenue was fatally shot in front of a home on the 3300 block of Olinville Avenue, across the street from Magenta Playground, in Olinville at about 6:22…

The state Assembly is contributing $130 million to the $650 million modernization of the Hunts Point Produce Market, which will make the facility more environmentally friendly and bring it into federal compliance. The New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is overseeing the project with the Produce Market Cooperative and a private developer, according to an…

A 21-year-old man was fatally shot while in the Claremont section of the Bronx Wednesday night, according to police. Antione Strong, a Bronx resident, was shot in the stomach at around 10 p.m. in front of 1382 College Ave. When officers from the 44th Precinct arrived on the scene, they found him on the ground…

The Bronx District Attorney’s Office is gearing up to host its fourth annual March to End Gun Violence this weekend.  According to the DA’s office, the march on Saturday in Longwood will be supplemented by a resource fair meant to provide Bronx residents with information regarding employment, education, re-entry from incarceration, health care and other…

Horns blared from passing traffic in the Hugh J. Grant Circle roundabout in Parkchester last Wednesday afternoon. Chants could be heard from a rally across the street.  “What do we want?” “A contract!” “When do we want it?” “Now!”  The May 24 rally was put on by members of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT)…

The moment on March 8, 1997, learning that rap icon Biggie Smalls just died. A chance encounter between two book-lovers on a morning commute. The eerie, uncomfortable silence of Sept. 11, 2001. All of these moments, experienced in New York City’s busy and bustling subway system, are being captured and chronicled by Bronxite Christina Baez in…

Firefighters operate at a three-alarm fire at 1878 Cross Bronx Expressway on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. The fire is believed to have originated from a tire shop. Photo Lloyd Mitchell Firefighters fought heavy fire throughout a one-story tire shop, located at 1878 Cross Bronx Expressway, on Tuesday night, just before 10:30 p.m. The three-alarm blaze…

Long before the pandemic, the Bronx had its share of mental health challenges and lacked sufficient resources to address those hurdles. Prior to COVID-19— which health experts told the Bronx Times ushered in long overdue conversations about mental health — the Bronx had the highest rate of psychiatric hospitalizations in the five boroughs and highest…

File photo via Shutterstock Police have arrested the parents of a 3-month-old girl whose body was found dead Sunday night in a wooded area off the Major Deegan Expressway. Damion Comager, 23, was charged with murder and concealment of a corpse Monday for allegedly killing his daughter and then dumping her body off the highway…

File photo/Lloyd Mitchell Bronx detectives are investigating the tragic death of a three-month-old girl who was found dead in a wooded area off the Major Deegan Expressway on Sunday night. Officers from the 44th Precinct located Genevieve Comager, 3 months, unconscious and unresponsive off the highway near West 161st Street, a short distance from Yankee…