Borough-wide
by Bob Connolly
Borough-wide
by Jon Minners
It’s about 5 a.m. on a Friday morning and I am awake, still suffering from an overdose of the Olympics. I still have hours and hours of coverage yet to be seen on my DVR and I am slowly making my way through it as I write. I still haven’t seen the final day in Beijing, China, so no one tell me how it all ends.
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Borough-wide
BY JON MINNERS
You won’t see Mariah Carey sliding into home plate, but one group of divas knows how to get down and dirty to get the job done and for the past 11 years, that’s exactly what the City Divas softball league has been doing, winning three championships this year alone.
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Borough-wide
BY JON MINNERS
After a successful 6-3 record during their first year in the Championship/Bowl Division, the Truman Mustangs come into the 08/09 season, looking to overcome a sophomore jinx and prove to the league that last year was not a fluke.
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Borough-wide
BY JON MINNERS
After a difficult year that saw Clinton High School end the PSAL football season with a 2-7 record, the Governors are back with one goal in mind.
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Bronx Times Reporter
By Patrick Rocchio
Councilman Jimmy Vacca has got a bone to pick with property owners in the lower Morris Park area who are converting their one- and two-family homes into Single Room Occupancy dwellings.
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Bronx Times Reporter
By Patrick Rocchio
With graffiti vandals able to climb and scale tall structures to find out of the way, yet visible places, to spray urban scrawl, community leaders are scratching their heads as to what to do next in the war against blight.
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Bronx Times Reporter
By Amanda Marinaccio
The doors continuously streamed with people as community leaders, members, library officials and staff gathered on Wednesday, August 27, at the Morris Park Branch Library to celebrate its second year anniversary.
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Bronx Times Reporter
By Jeni Asaba
Remembering a lost loved one, family and friends will gather at Pelham Parkway South, between Barnes and Wallace avenues, on Saturday, September 20, at 11 a.m. for a memorial march in honor of drunken driving victim Ian Dawson.
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Bronx Times Reporter
By Jeni Asaba
On Wednesday, September 10, angry Verizon workers will join together in opposition of the proposed sale of the 60,000 square foot facility in Westchester Square.
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Bronx Times Reporter
By Patrick Rocchio
A startling drunk-driving crash destroyed a canopied fence and concrete barrier of a Waterbury-LaSalle home, and stopped just short of a porch where it’s residents usually enjoy the summer weather.
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Bronx Times Reporter
By Patrick Rocchio
In what is becoming an ongoing saga, residents of St. Paul Avenue and the surrounding blocks are still fighting over what was a change in direction for the street over two years ago.
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Food
By Jeni Asaba
Named after some of Ireland’s most popular pubs, The Wicked Wolf is ready to tame the neighborhood’s wildest appetites.
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Food
By Jeni Asaba
New options in an unexpected venue – Mrs. Lee’s “Takes the Cake” Bakery now offers healthy sweets at the touch of a button.
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Crime
by Patrick Rocchio
Seven men collared in a dog fight ring in June are headed to court, with animal lovers vowing to fight to make sure that swift justice follows all who dare to break the law by hosting or participating in dog fights.
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Borough-wide
By Paul Bufano
After over a year of construction and close to $800,000 in donations, the highly anticipated Morris Mesa Playground finally opened to the public on Wednesday, August 6.
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Borough-wide
By Jeni Asaba
Sounds of laughing children proved a promising future for the newly remodeled Mullaly Park as community members and elected officials cut its ribbon on Friday, August 22.
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Borough-wide
By Patrick Rocchio
The next Martin Scorsese may be located right in the Bronx, among a group of teens who took their summer off from school as an opportunity to learn filmmaking.
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Borough-wide
By Amanda Marinaccio
Local residents feel the Department of Education has little hope for students throughout the northwest Bronx.
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Borough-wide
Bon Secours New York Health System, on the nine-acre campus that encompasses Schervier Nursing Care Center, the independent-living Schervier Apartments and several other buildings, is creating a parking lot on its property to help relieve some of the parking congestion in the Riverdale area around Schervier, since parking is at such a premium in this area.
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Borough-wide
by Jeni Asaba
Admiration turned to dedication when one local athlete ran beside his role model during the recent filming of an Olympic commercial in Athens, Greece.
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Borough-wide
The New York Yankees are not the only ones getting a new ball field in the Bronx.
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Film
By Jeni Asaba
A surprising visit to the principal’s office recently made one Hunts Point second grader an online inspiration.
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Film
By Amanda Marinaccio
An exciting new pilot episode, derived in the Bronx, based on the realities of an imperfect society will have the chance to compete against 36 other selections in the Independent Pilot Competition.
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Borough-wide
by Patrick Rocchio
After a desperate week-long search, the body of a Bronx girl who fell into the Niagara River during a day-trip with a Polish Catholic summer camp, was finally discovered.
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Borough-wide
Bronx elected officials including Assembly members Aurelia Green, Michael Benjamin, Michael Benedetto, Ruben Diaz, Jr., Jeffrey Dinowitz, and Carl Heastie, Senators Rev. Ruben Diaz, Sr., Eric Schneiderman, and Ruth Hassell-Thompson formally endorsed Elizabeth Taylor for Civil Court Judge on the steps of the Bronx Court House.
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Borough-wide
by Amanda Marinaccio
For students of the Bronx looking to break into the health care profession with little resources or guidance, Montefiore offered a place for them to turn.
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Borough-wide
by Jeni Asaba
Staff at the Bronx Community Pride Center are still scraping their jaws off the ground after hearing the news – the Bronx has more same-sex couples raising children than any other borough.
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Borough-wide
by Jeni Asaba
The City’s youngest police aspirants now march in style thanks to a generous sponsorship from their law enforcement chairman.
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Borough-wide
by Jeni Asaba
With the recent addition of 45 hybrid-electric trucks to their delivery fleet, FedEx Express is driving green in the Bronx.
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Borough-wide
b yAamanda Marinaccio
A large portion of the community may be left with no place to turn as the City threatens to close down and reform many of the much needed senior centers.
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Borough-wide
by Amanda Marinaccio
Borough-wide
by Patrick Rocchio
Despite woeful news about the national economy, another large electronic store chain is betting on the Bronx to deliver in sales, while they deliver a much needed economic stimulus package: jobs for those who need them.
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Borough-wide
by Patrick Rocchio
A planed development for the Melrose Commons area has the community buzzing with interest, as yet more investment pours into the south Bronx.
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Borough-wide
By Jeni Asaba
On the brink of a busy school year, local principals are expressing concern over their students’ safety.
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Borough-wide
By Patrick Rocchio
In what is the largest building planned for the Bronx in over 30 years, a behemoth structure to house a back-up 911-call center for New York City is lurking around the corner on a parcel of land that once belonged to Bronx State Psychiatric Hospital.
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