Category: The Bronx

The morning of Sunday, Feb. 26, started as any other day in my store. Workers got to my store on East 194th Street in the Bronx in the morning, and they proceeded normally. Little did we know that was all going to change. In the afternoon, two people came into the store and began to…

All nine Bronx City Councilmembers voted last week to pass a resolution to make April 29 “End Jew Hatred Day,” but it didn’t come without controversy — six progressive Brooklyn electeds didn’t give the motion the green light.  The legislation was put forth by Brooklyn District 48 representative Inna Vernikov, a Republican, and co-sponsored by…

Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell and PBA President Patrick Lynch attended the roll out for the first 10/12-hour shift rotation at the 47th Precinct. Cops at a Bronx police precinct became the first officers in the city Wednesday to work 12-hours shifts as part of a new NYPD pilot program. The new tour of duty was…

The New York Yankees honored six Metro-North Railroad employees who saved a toddler while on duty last month before the team’s Monday game against the Cleveland Guardians.  The Bronx Bombers recognized the six during a pre-game batting practice and ceremony before the first pitch of Monday night’s match up.  “It has been so great to…

A longtime Bronx mechanic is being charged with criminally negligent homicide, a class E felony, for failing to comply with safety protocols when a free-falling elevator at a Mt. Eden apartment building fell six stories and crushed his less experienced co-worker in 2021. On the morning of Feb. 18, 2021, mechanic Peter Milatz, 67, and…

The landmark Bronx County Courthouse building, also known as the Mario Merola Building, has stood tall in the Grand Concourse section of the Bronx for 90 years. But efforts to extend the aging building’s lifespan require fixing unsafe conditions stemming from the building’s façade that date back several years. Façade work on the courthouse is…

Police are looking for these three women who allegedly assaulted an MTA worker at a subway station in the Bronx last month (NYPD) Three women got into a dispute with an MTA employee in the Bronx last month before one of them struck the worker in the head with a broom while the two others…

By Van Cortlandt Park Alliance Board of Directors Posted on May 1, 2023 A person enters Van Cortlandt Park in Riverdale on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Photo Camille Botello Back in 2021, Mayor Adams ran on a campaign promise to increase NYC Parks’ budget to 1% of the city’s overall budget, but here we are…

Three Bronx CUNY schools — Bronx Community College (BCC), Hostos Community College and Lehman College — have different unique origin stories prior to become longstanding education institutions in the borough. First came Lehman — once a national World War I training ground for women as the Bronx Branch of Hunter College, until it became an…

An alleged shoplifter grabbed a supermarket employee by the neck and wielded a knife when exiting a store with stolen goods last week in the Bronx (photo courtesy of the Collective Action to Protect our Stores) A Bronx supermarket employee was grabbed by the neck and threatened with a knife while attempting to stop a…