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Owner set to build
The area of White Plains Road, destroyed by a devastating three-alarm fire last year, is preparing to break ground for construction this week. Read more…
Borough-wide
A-N-M Beauty wins battle to remain open
After the almost certain eviction of A-N-M Beauty Supply & Variety Store, the popular East Tremont store will continue to service Throggs Neck until 2011. Read more…
Borough-wide
Bronx River Arts Center offers classes
The Bronx River Art Center, located at 1087 East Tremont Avenue, announces its 2009 Spring session of free art classes for youth, teens and young adults ages 9 to 21. Youth Classes are held Mon. to Fri., 4 to 6 pm and Sat., 1:30 to 4:30 pm. Read more…
Borough-wide
TN’er hits home run building new Yankee Stadium
As a lifelong Yankees fan, Joe Byrne has always looked forward to Opening Day in the Bronx, having attended the last 25 straight home openers, and several others before that. Read more…
Borough-wide
Burglars target Asian-owned businesses
A rash of nighttime burglaries in the 45th Precinct may be targeting Asian-owned businesses. Read more…
Borough-wide
Morris Park businesses counsel veterans
Many veterans come home to no home. On Monday, February 2, volunteers Johnnie Williams and Carmine Mezzacappa organized a Veterans Helping Veterans real estate symposium for patients at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center on Kingsbridge Road. Read more…
Borough-wide
Vacca proposes tech grants for private schools
Councilman Jimmy Vacca held out hope that Mayor Bloomberg would change budget rules forbidding members of the City Council from allocating discretionary funds for technology improvements at Catholic and private schools. Read more…
Borough-wide
DOT: ‘No’ St. Theresa stop sign
Pelham Bay resident Frank Tranchese, St. Theresa School principal Josephine Fanelli and Senator Jeffrey Klein asked the city’s Department of Transportation for stop signs where St. Theresa Avenue meets Pilgrim Avenue. Motorists careen down St. Theresa from Westchester Avenue. School children and elderly churchgoers use the street. Tranchese collected more than 300 signatures. Read more…
Arts
NYBG plans renovation of Waring gate
The New York Botanical Garden is in the early stages of plans for a new and improved pathway leading in from the Waring Avenue entry gate. Read more…
Arts
BCC Foundation to host gala
The Bronx Community College Foundation will hold its annual Gala Awards Dinner, Celebrating BCC: Progress and Promise, at the New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, on Thursday, April 2. Those to be honored as part of the evening program include Jay Hershenson, senior vice chancellor for university relations and secretary of the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York; BCC graduate M. Monica Sweeney, M.D., assistant commissioner for the Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; and Alice P. Fuller, dean of faculty and academic affairs at Bronx Community College. Read more…
