Cracking down on ‘dangerous’ drivers citywide and Busway violators in Queens
Monday through Friday, two Bronx-bound lanes will be closed on the Broadway Bridge over the Harlem River, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.. Monday to Friday, 9:45 ...
Monthly Archives: February 2021
Students, teachers and parents protest possible hiring of over 400 school safety agents
Banners at the Taft Educational Campus in the Bronx read "police free schools." Both NYPD officials and City Hall say that no official decision has ...
Boy robbed at Bronx laundromat, 2 suspects sought
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – A 14-year-old boy was robbed at a laundromat in the Bronx, police said Saturday as they released video of the robbery ...
Senior Citizen Critical after being Struck by a Vehicle Crossing the Hutch
Traffic is backed up for several miles after a pedestrian was struck on the Hutchinson River Parkway at the Pelham Parkway exit in The Bronx on ...
Even at limited capacity, Yankees excited to see fans back in the stands as spring games begin
The ballpark in the Bronx, when empty, echoed the sounds of backfiring cars and sirens — the noise of the city life outside the walls — as the television ...
Police: 14-year-old boy robbed by duo at Bronx laundromat
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – A 14-year-old boy was robbed at a laundromat in the Bronx, police said Saturday as they released video of the robbery ...
Digidog, a Robotic Dog Used by the Police, Stirs Privacy Concerns
Two men were being held hostage in a Bronx apartment. They had been threatened at gunpoint, tied up and tortured for hours by two other men who ...
Cuomo hails decline in statewide COVID rates to near three-month lows, even as New York City …
The positivity test rate remains high in the city, especially in the Bronx, where 5.56% of tests came back positive Friday. Manhattan is the only borough ...
UPDATE: 18-Year-Old Bronx NY Woman Killed in NJ Turnpike Crash in Carteret
A rear sear passenger, Ms. Kaytlen Nivar, 18, of Bronx, NY, sustained fatal injuries. Three additional passengers in the vehicle sustained non-life- ...
Incoming NYC Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter steps into a system battling crisis
Porter, a former teacher, principal and superintendent in the Bronx, will make history as New York City's first Black woman chancellor. Those who know ...
5 people shot, wounded over 2-hour span in NYC
The first shooting was near Swinton and Sampson avenues in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx around 2:20 a.m. A 20-year-old man suffered ...
A 73-year-old Bronx woman died Friday after her portable oxygen breathing tank gave out while …
Elderly Bronx Woman Dies After Oxygen Tank Gives Out While Climbing Stairs To High-Rise Home. By David Cruz. Feb. 27, 2021 11:00 a.m..
State’s Largest Vaccine Sites in Brooklyn, Queens Expand Eligibility
... state said Friday a second mass vaccination site should be added in the northern Bronx to supply the Yankee Stadium site it runs jointly with the city.
Permits Filed for 2074 Walton Avenue in Fordham Heights, The Bronx
Permits have been filed for an eight-story residential building at 2074 Walton Avenue in Fordham Heights, The Bronx. Located between East Burnside ...
Governor Cuomo’s Long Shadow
But rarely is that shadow interpreted as differently as it was last week during a debate between Sen. Gustavo Rivera, D-Bronx, and Sen. Edward Rath ...
Out of the Wardrobe
There's no way I would have been comfortable as a closeted 13-year-old in the South Bronx picking up “Boy Meets Boy.” Even at 23, while reading ...
Pelican Shot in Wings Finds Forever Home in Bronx Zoo
After nearly a year of waiting, Amos the American white pelican has finally found a permanent home in the Bronx Zoo. He was found in Texas in 2016, ...
Woman dies climbing stairs during Bronx building power outage: police
CO-OP CITY, the Bronx — A woman is dead after attempting to walk up the stairs to her Bronx apartment with her oxygen tank during a power outage ...
Change of Vaccination Site in the Northwest Bronx from Walton HS to Bronx HS of Science
campus in Kingsbridge Heights has been relocated to Bronx High School of Science in Jerome Park. The assemblyman said that this was done because ...
These heroes are helping the most vulnerable get COVID-19 vaccines
Tomas Ramos' Bronx Rising Initiative hosts pop-up vaccination sites for senior citizens living in Bronx housing projects. Stephen Yang. Similarly ...
New chancellor: Education ambassadors discuss change of power after Richard Carranza steps …
As former New York City Chancellor Richard Carranza steps down, Bronx executive superintendent Meisha Porter is stepping into the role. News 12's ...
Executive Director of North Central Bronx Hospital Promoted to New Position in Harlem
Cristina Contreras, executive director at NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx Photo courtesy of Cristina Contreras. Mitchell Katz, MD and ...
CIC Health expands operations to Reggie Lewis Center
“It's been tough. I've lost people — relatives, friends,” she said, including her son-in-law, Frederick “Fred the Godson” Thomas, a popular Bronx rapper, ...
Lloyd’s, carrot cake king of Harlem and the Bronx, prospers through adversity
... Lilka, runs the family-owned Lloyd's Carrot Cake in East Harlem and the Bronx. “We can't sacrifice that just for the sake of moving units. At the end of ...
House and Senate progressives split over next steps on minimum wage
... community that is very deeply impacted by this issue, I know that going back to my family's community in the Bronx and in Queens, we can't tell them ...
UN chief returns to the Bronx for second coronavirus shot
UN Secretary-General António Guterres received his second COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies in the Bronx, ...
New Yorkers At Bronx Food Pantry Describe Need For Federal Stimulus Checks, $15 Minimum Wage
The line at a food pantry in the Bronx wrapped around the building as lawmakers in Washington, D.C. got set to vote on President Biden's $1.9 trillion ...
NY COVID hospitalization rates drop to lowest level in months amid vaccination acceleration
He said he agrees with the Bronx Dems and vowed that the Department of Health will work “to ensure this inequity is immediately addressed.” Most ...
Fernandez calls for mass vaccination site in the north Bronx
Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernández has called on Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio to bring a mass COVID-19 vaccination site to the north Bronx ...
From Jan. to Feb., Staten Island sees drop in coronavirus deaths
The Bronx's infection rate is second highest. In that borough, 8,446 residents per 100,000 have tested positive. The Bronx has had 120,951 confirmed ...