Archive | March, 2011

The Bronx’s own Green Isle celebrates

When parade goers and bar hoppers, many in shamrock sunglasses and leprechaun hats, line the streets of Manhattan trying to get a glimpse of the parade, or win St. Patrick’s day T-shirts, a little pocket of down-home revelry takes place in the Northeast Bronx.

About a block away from Yonkers on Katonah Avenue, kids paint their faces green, the Irish musicians of Jameson’s Revenge play the violin and Irish flute, and neighbors and friends celebrate the country they left behind.

“Oh! And I wish I were with the gentle folk, Around a hearthened fire where the fairies dance unseen,” recited Martin Miller outside the Rambling House pub a few days before the St Patrick’s Day celebration. Taking not even a full moment to recall the verse by the Irish nationalist Bobby Sands, Miller, 32, began reciting the poem while successfully lighting his cigarette in the cool wind. The sound of his own words had such a nostalgic quality, they almost brought him to tears. He stopped short, but not from lack of memory.

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Death toll climbs to 15 in horrific Bronx bus crash

Another passenger of the doomed discount bus that crashed in the Bronx has died, bringing the death toll in the horrific highway wreck to 15, police said Monday.

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15 people dead in bus accident on the Hutch

Rescue workers described the scene as “complete carnage.”

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Citywide Plan to Replace Hazardous PCB Lighting Fixtures

City announces 10-year plan to replace harmful PCB lighting ballasts in city schools and make them more energy efficient.

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Fulton Fish Market trying to stay afloat

The Fulton Fish Market, one of the oldest fish wholesalers in Hunts Point, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week. The company lost a lot business in 2009 and 2010, according to Crain’s New York.

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FDNY teaches parents CPR instruction to save lives

At the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, a group of students, mostly parents, have learned a life-saving skill — how to perform CPR, also known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

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Bronx lawmakers react to senator caught in alleged corruption

Bronx lawmakers Sen. Gustavo Rivera and Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr react to news of the FBI’s indictment against Sen. Carl Kruger of Brooklyn.

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Transgender couple to marry after trouble with Bronx office

A transgender couple was given the right to marry this week. The City Clerk’s Office in the Bronx turned them away for not having birth certificates when they applied for a marriage license in 2009.

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