An effort to transform an under-utilized industrial area in West Farms into a thriving residential community with affordable housing and retail space has received approval from the City Council. Comments (1).

For the first time in the Throggs Neck Halloween Parade’s over-25-year history, it was postponed due to snow. So all the ghouls and goblins who had planned to march down East Tremont Avenue on Saturday, October 29, can now make their way to Villa Barone Manor on Saturday, November 5. Comment.

The city has promised to make bus bulbs work, but so far much of the Pelham Bay community is unenthusiastic about the proposal. Comments (2).

By Vito Signorile Comment.

The Champs Elysees of the Bronx is now, officially, a landmark. Comments (2).

For the 20th annual Veterans Day, Peace Memorial Plaza will be the scene of a remembrance of fallen, deceased and surviving military personnel who have answered the call of duty to their country. Comment.

It took three weeks for the Occupy Wall Street movement to travel the roughly 13 miles from Zuccotti Park to Fordham Plaza. Comment.

Proponents of the new Lower Density Growth Management zoning laws in Community Board 10 expected those regulations to keep certain businesses off residential side streets. So when day care facilities began popping up on those streets over the past year, they started looking for answers. And those answers proved hard to come by. Comments (1).

The Bronx’s Harlem River waterfront will be getting an upgrade, courtesy of the federal government. Comment.

A project by three Preston High School students looks to draw attention to the risk of teen smoking and the tobacco advertisements young people see all over the community. Comment.

Final preparations are underway for the Bronx Veterans Day Parade. Comment.

More affordable housing development open in the Bronx is a positive sign in a down economy. Comments (9).

Officers of the 49th Precinct are cracking down on illegally parked cars near auto body shops on Sackett Avenue. Comment.

An annual pre-Thanksgiving 5K in the Bronx is becoming as popular as a turkey meal. Comment.

A home on Roselle Street where work was started months ago but never completed is now being sealed after rear windows and entrances were left exposed. Comment.

The New York Botanical Gardens is showcasing the world-record-breaking largest pumpkin in the world, as well as three runners up, through the end of October. Comment.

The Throggs Neck Halloween Parade is almost here. Comment.

P.S. 83 began its first academic year in decades without long-time principal Benjamin Saccodato in September, but the kindergarten through 8th grade school will have something to remember him by for a long time — a revamped playground. Comment.

Correct signage has been re-installed on Pennyfield Avenue after recent concern by local residents. Comment.

One of the Bronx’s oldest dance schools has opened a new location. Comment.

He was born as Abraham Roth in Vienna, Austria in 1911, but became famous as Al Ross, a cartoonist from Pelham Parkway. Comment.

A new early education space in Hunts Point is nothing short of great news to local families. Comment.

All it takes is a few words of inspiration from a well-known celebrity to spark motivation in high school students. Comment.