Posted on 28 October 2011. Tags: invesitgation, police, ticket-fixing
A 16th officer was arrested Thursday night as a part of the long-running grand jury investigation into the widespread ticket-fixing practice for family, friends, and colleagues. The New York Times reported that according to knowledgeable sources, it was expected that 15 police officers will surrender by Friday morning to face criminal charges in the Bronx. […]
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Posted on 28 October 2011. Tags: Arthur Avenue, Restaurant Week, Ruben Diaz, Savor the Bronx
From November 1 to 13, the Bronx will host its first ever Restaurant Week, reports Gothamist. Savor the Bronx promotes many of the borough’s best restaurants on Arthur Avenue and elsewhere and highlights the various types of cuisines. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. said, “The Bronx is your oyster!”
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Posted on 27 October 2011. Tags: fordam plaza, Northwest Bronx Community, Occupy Bronx, Occupy Wall Street, pictures, The Bronx, Yankee Stadium
On its second day, Occupy the Bronx protesters directed their anger at the Yankee organization and local banks
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Northwest Bronx, Politics, The Bronx Beat
Posted on 27 October 2011. Tags: public high school, school, Westchester Square
Due to crowding issues, Public School/Middle School 194 has recently been forced to bus students to “overflow sites,” schools that can handle its overflow. NY Daily News reports that 20 years after a successful fight for a new school in Westchester Square so children would not have to be shuttled outside of the area, families […]
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Posted on 27 October 2011. Tags: Edgar Allen Poe, Fordham, Halloween, renovation
Over 160 years ago, Edgar Allan Poe lived in a tiny, country poor man’s house in what today is the Bronx. The New York Times reports that the famous poet’s cottage in the Fordham neighborhood is receiving finishing half-million dollar renovations and this month has opened to students. October marks the month of the poet’s mysterious death and […]
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Posted on 26 October 2011. Tags: Crotona Park East, development project, jobs, West Farms
According to project developer Signature Urban Properties, a proposed $350 million mixed-use, affordable-housing development in the West Farms and Crotona Park East sections of the Bronx has made great progress. Crain’s New York Business reports that by next year, ground is expected to be broken for the mix-used development targeted to create an estimated 412 […]
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Posted on 26 October 2011. Tags: Dominican, Dominican Republic, Election, pictures
Bronx Dominicans will be able to elect overseas legislators as well as a president
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Posted on 26 October 2011. Tags: housing, real estate, Tropical Storm Irene, villa charlotte bronte
In late September, several residents of Villa Charlotte Brontë cooperative in the Bronx awaited permission to return home after Tropical Storm Irene caused a landslide at their building. The wait continues. NY Times reports there is concern about the stability of the foundation of two of the buildings overlooking the Hudson River.
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