The Board of Regents will vote on May 17 to close the Kingsbridge Innovative Design Charter School because of financial mismanagement.
Archive | May, 2011
State seeking to shut down Kinsgbridge charter school
Posted on 06 May 2011.
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NYPD looking for robbery suspect targeting elderly women
Posted on 06 May 2011.
A man has robbed five women in the last two weeks in the Tremont and Norwood sections of the Bronx.
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Cinco de Bronx!
Posted on 05 May 2011.
Mexicans put their cultural footprint on the borough…
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Chilis and Piñatas
Posted on 05 May 2011.
Norteña music blasts from a boom-box at a Mexican grocery store in Belmont. There is little space to move between aisles crammed with canned foods and bags of Mexican treats. Bright piñatas hang from the ceiling along with metal pots used for making tamales. Piggy banks made of clay, sit snugly on a rack, just […]
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A Puerto Rican Cinco de Mayo
Posted on 05 May 2011.
The Luis Jimenez Radio show, which broadcasts out of the Univision headquarters in Manhattan on 96.3 F.M. rarely plays Mexican music. Its audience, like its staff, is mostly Puerto Rican and Dominican, so the show sticks to salsa, bachata and reggaeton. Jimenez seems to enjoy Cinco de Mayo, however. And his co-hosts are intent on […]
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A futbol store for Little Italy
Posted on 05 May 2011.
An item emblematic of Mexican sports fans hangs from one of the racks of Gregorio Castro’s sporting goods store in Belmont. It’s a green wrestling mask with white borders around the eyes and a small Mexican flag sown on its forehead. “Fans use those when they go to the national [soccer] teams’ games” says the […]
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Lady of Dance
Posted on 05 May 2011.
By Manuel Rueda Cinco de Mayo is usually a busy day for Damaris Hernandez and her Mexican dance group, the Ballet Nuestra Señora del Refugio (Our Lady of Refuge Ballet). “We usually dance in Fordham Plaza for the President of the Bronx,” says Hernandez, referring to the Borough President. “But this year we are going […]
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Green tomatoes and a chicken base
Posted on 05 May 2011.
by Mehroz Baig Omar Corona, 28, works as a cook at the newly opened Metate, a Mexican restaurant in Riverdale. Originally from Mexico City, he moved to the United States when he was 15 years old and he’s been a Bronxite for the last six years. For Corona, keeping Mexican traditions alive is important, and […]
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