Category: The Bronx

In recent days momentum has grown for the Bronx’s legal cannabis industry. By fall 2023, the former Mott Haven Bar & Grill location at 2412 Third Ave. is primed to become the South Bronx’s first legal recreational cannabis dispensary, the Bronx Times has learned. Construction at the site, according to CannaSummit CEO Michael Montes, will…

Thirty years after his death, Elsie Soto finally gets to give her father a memorial service.  Soto has been campaigning for the city to place a bereavement stone on Hart Island for the better part of the past year — an initiative she says will finally give New Yorkers who are buried on the island,…

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell unveiled on Tuesday evening a new Bronx community center dedicated to the borough’s youth. The facility located in Belmont at 1932 Arthur Avenue will be the new home of the Options Program, a police-led initiative that uses technology, like virtual reality, to help give youth a glimpse behind the badge. The…

An effort to oppose what could be the first recreational cannabis dispensary in the Bronx failed at a Community Board 11 meeting Tuesday night. Cousins-turned-business partners Levent Ozkurt and Denis Ozkurt have plans to open the New York City Cannabis Emporium, a retail dispensary at 2460 Williamsbridge Road in the Allerton section of the Bronx.…

New York City developers are working on plans to turn a parcel of land under the University Heights Bridge into a public space.  During Bronx Community Board 7’s executive committee meeting last Thursday night, officials from Dynamic Star — a real estate development, investment and marketing firm — presented their plans for a project they’re…

Bronx history has entered its next chapter with a new borough historian. Angel Hernandez, the president of The Huntington Free Library and Reading Room and director of government relations at the New York Botanical Garden, has taken the reins from the borough’s longtime historian Lloyd Ultan, who was appointed to the role in 1996. “I’ve enjoyed…

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is proud to present the spectacular, multi-media live performance honoring the greatest entertainer of all time, Michael Jackson, at “Invincible: A Tribute to Michael Jackson” on Saturday, May 27 at 8 p.m. Producer Darrin Ross searched all over the world to find people that could sing and dance like…

A 9-year-old boy died Sunday after falling from the fourth floor window of his Bronx apartment, cops said. Google Maps A 9-year-old boy is dead after falling from the window of a Bronx apartment building Sunday afternoon, cops said. At around 4:11 p.m. on May 21, authorities were called to 240 Mount Hope Place, where…

Detectives in the Bronx continue to investigate a mysterious murder at a public housing complex on Saturday afternoon. Police said that Tristian Loran, 19, was found unconscious and unresponsive inside an apartment within the Castle Hill Houses campus at 535 Havemeyer Ave. in Castle Hill at about 4:31 p.m. on May 20. Officers from the…

File photo/Lloyd Mitchell Detectives in the Bronx have launched a homicide investigation into the death of a man who was apparently choked out in his bathroom last month. Police announced on Saturday morning that Yaya Kouyate, 48, was found dead at his residence in an apartment building at 1463 Hoe Ave. in Charlotte Gardens at…