Posted on 30 June 2010.
The Bronx Ink is based at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and provides ongoing coverage of many neighborhoods in the city’s greenest borough, including stories about politics, crime, the economy, education and culture. Get in touch with all our staff by emailing thebronxink@gmail.com Eno Alfred is from London and is a 2009 graduate […]
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Posted on 18 May 2010. Tags: Bronx, Brooklyn, Daniel Fastenberg, Department of Housing, Eta Eckstein, housing, landlord, Moshe Piller, Selamawit Gebrekidan, Sonia Dasgupta
After 18 months of rehabilitation for a broken hip, all that Eta Eckstein wanted was to go back home to her Brooklyn apartment. The 92-year-old Holocaust survivor had lived at 8750 Bay Parkway for 40 years, but when her son visited her apartment while she was still at the Shore View Rehabilitation Center, he found a red eviction notice on the door.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Housing, Multimedia
Posted on 19 April 2010. Tags: Bronx, Crime, Jonathan Torres, Sam Fellman, Sonia Dasgupta, St. Raymond School for Boys
Students at St. Raymond High School for Boys mourned a classmate who was fatally shot.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Crime
Posted on 29 March 2010. Tags: Bronx, Cumin, Liebman's Delicatessen, Passover, Riverdale, Sonia Dasgupta
On a rainy Monday, Liebman’s Delicatessen bustles as last-minute shoppers stock up on briskets and kugel for Passover.
Posted in Bronx Tales
Posted on 10 March 2010. Tags: Bronx, Bronx Community College, Department of Education, Sarah Butrymowicz, schools, Sonia Dasgupta, students, University Heights High School
Students fight to keep their school on the Bronx Community College’s Campus.
Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Neighborhoods, Education, Northwest Bronx