A Bronx food-share project has reached its membership limit so now organizers are hoping to spread the healthy eating message in other ways, such as the potluck supper, which was made by members using their recent supply of produce.
Archive | October, 2011
Bringing the farm to the Grand Concourse
Posted on 18 October 2011.
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Far from Occupy Wall Street, Bronx parks wait for their own clean-up
Posted on 18 October 2011.
“If Bloomberg is interested in cleaning up parks,’ said resident Richard Garey, an architect, “he can start in the Bronx.”
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Mom of college basketball star from the Bronx dies, ESPN
Posted on 18 October 2011.
The mother of Bronx native and University of Arizona basketball forward Kevin Parrom has died, ESPN reports. The announcement came just a few weeks after the 6-foot-6 junior Wildcat returned was injured following a Sept. 24 shooting in the Bronx. During that incident Parrom was shot in the leg. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Kevin […]
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Latinos in the Bronx piece together their own history, NY Daily News
Posted on 18 October 2011.
As part of a year-long effort to collect the Bronx’s Latino history, the Bronx County Historical Society has installed a new exhibit featuring vintage photos, vinyl records of Latino music and old newspapers, the NY Daily News reports. “We want to open up a dialogue about this,” Angel Hernandez told the newspaper. “We want to give […]
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New details of tampering in standardized tests out, NYTimes
Posted on 18 October 2011.
A report published in NYTimes revealed there have been 1,250 accusations of test tampering or grade changing across city schools since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took control of the public schools system. Of that number, 14 cases had been substantiated including one against a teacher at Middle School 219 in the Bronx. The teacher received a […]
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Three Bronx men face drug charges in Pennsylvania, BCTV
Posted on 18 October 2011.
Three Bronx men are facing drug charges in a Pennsylvania town following an arrest that netted thousands of packs of heroin, according to the community website Berks County TV in Reading, Pa. The suspects who are in their early 20s allegedly distributed large volumes of heroin in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Police said large amounts of heroin […]
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Occupy Bronx, Day One
Posted on 17 October 2011.
“I was born and raised in the South Bronx,” said Maribel Vasquez, a Fulbright scholar. “It wasn’t until I left that I realized I was raised in the poorest congressional district of the United States.”
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Poe’s Cottage reopens
Posted on 17 October 2011.
After a year of renovation, Edgar Allen Poe’s cottage in the Bronx reopened to the public on October 15.
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