Category: The Bronx

A new series of free tech-related events is coming to the Bronx next week in what organizers are calling Bronx Tech Week. The program, which runs from May 15-20, includes two panels, a pitch competition and a hackathon for high school students. Organizers George Nunez and Danielle Nicholson, who are both from the Bronx, want to…

The Bronx District Attorney’s office announced Friday that four current Rikers Island inmates, as well as six people who were formerly incarcerated at the jail, were indicted on various assault charges in what was described as a “jailhouse war.”  The assaults, according to the announcement, were allegedly committed by members of the Bloods against the…

One of the three suspects the police are looking for pertaining to a string of robberies and thefts that took place earlier this month (NYPD) The NYPD is looking for three men wanted for a string of robberies and thefts that took place in the Bronx and Manhattan earlier this month. The trio’s first crime…

The city is launching a second round of public engagement sessions for its study to reimagine the Cross Bronx Expressway. The study is supported by a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which was announced in December. The initiative is a combined effort of the New York City health, planning and transportation…

Former Bronx City Councilmember Andy King’s attempt to get back into politics hit a major roadblock Wednesday, after an appeal by the city’s Board of Elections (BOE) to knock him off the ballot was successful. The ruling by an appellate court reversed a decision last week by a New York Supreme Court judge to allow…

The Bronx Chamber of Commerce is on a growth trajectory as it celebrates this month’s double occasion: Bronx Week and NYC Small Business Month. The chamber has grown from about 150 members pre-pandemic to almost 500, according to Michael Brady, the chamber’s senior vice president for economic development and policy. Its members include small and…

In 2011, Judy Huie-Kennedy was diagnosed with stage 3B cervical cancer, and the journey to a cancer-free status in the following years was arduous, including two rounds of intense chemotherapy, radiation treatment and a hysterectomy. Getting screened and diagnosed was “half the battle,” Huie-Kennedy told the Bronx Times. The other half of that battle, for…

The Archdiocese of New York hopes that a pilot program launching in Bedford Park can address pandemic-fueled impacts that led to majors closures of Bronx catholic schools over the past few years. The first of these Catholic education and family centers is expanding on education services offered at the 75-year-old St. Philip Neri School, a spokesperson…

Police tape (file photo). Photo by Lloyd Mitchell A 33-year-old man was fatally stabbed Monday evening in the Concourse section of the Bronx. Police received a 911 call at around 7:50 p.m. of a reported stabbing in the vicinity of 206 East and 167 Streets, within the confines of the 44th precinct. When police arrived,…

More than 800 residents of the near-century old Amalgamated Houses in Van Cortlandt Village are breathing a sigh of relief, as they will avert a planned gas service shutoff that would have taken place this July. Amalgamated’s general manager Charles Zsebedics told the Bronx Times that a meeting between Amalgamated’s board of directors, the state’s…