Posted on 25 October 2011. Tags: landmark, National Historic Landmark Registry, Woodlawn Cemetery
Since 1863, the sprawling Woodlawn Cemetery has seen jazz greats, literary giants, political leaders and everyone in between entombed above and beneath its hallowed grounds. On Sunday, Oct. 16, the cemetery was inducted into the National Historic Landmark Registry. It is the sixth Bronx institution to make the list, Norwood News reported. “From every racial […]
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Posted on 25 October 2011. Tags: CAN Health Initiative, diets, Education, health, Mount St. Ursula, National Food Day
Bronx Senator Gustavo Rivera marked National Food Day on Monday by sharing with students in Fordham that eating better helped him lose weight, NY1 reported. Rivera, who weighed 299 pounds in June, has since lost 16 pounds. He weighed himself during an event at the Academy of Mount St. Ursula. Rivera began his dieting when […]
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Posted on 25 October 2011. Tags: bedford park, Education, High School, High School for Teaching and Professions, Tyra Banks
America’s next top student may have been among the 400 screaming, crying teens at the High School for Teaching and Professions, where former supermodel Tyra Banks made a surprise appearance Wednesday, the NY Daily News reported. Banks strutted onstage to promote her new book, “Modelland,” answer questions and congratulate the students on beating 90 other schools so […]
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Posted on 25 October 2011. Tags: economy, employment, Hunts Point, New Fulton Fish Market, pictures
The world’s second largest seafood market still thriving after all these years and a move to the Bronx.
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Posted in Bronx Life, Featured, Food, Multimedia, Slideshows, Southern Bronx
Posted on 24 October 2011. Tags: bedford park, Dennis Walcott, public school 8, public schools, school overcrowding, The Bronx
Bronx parents are skeptical that the City Council’s new legislation requiring the Department of Education to report annually on size, capacity and utilization of schools will help address rampant overcrowding, NY Daily News reported. Parent Eddie Valley said he’s concerned about how much attention his third-grade daughter is receiving. “You could only have so many […]
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Posted on 24 October 2011. Tags: dog, lawsuit, police, The Bronx
A Bronx family is suing police for pushing their tiny dog out of a third-story window – but cops say the officer was just trying to quiet the yapping menace during a chaotic raid, the NY Daily News reported. Iris Ramos says in her suit that cops burst into her Castle Hill apartment last October […]
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Posted on 24 October 2011. Tags: budget cuts, Featured, Morrisania, pictures, Post Office
The Morrisania post office in the South Bronx may have to shut its doors along with 17 others in the Bronx.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Featured, Money, Multimedia
Posted on 24 October 2011. Tags: cycling, Featured, Grand Concourse, Hunts Point, orchard beach, pictures, sound view, Tour De Bronx
Some 6,000 cyclists biked the Bronx on Oct. 23. Bike enthusiasts young and old took over the streets from Bronx County Courthouse to the Sheridan Expressway and Pelham Bay Park.
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Posted in Bronx Life, Culture, Featured