A 10-year old jiu jitsu program in East Tremont teaches students how to fight back the negative pressures of their community.
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Fighting their neighborhood
Posted on 20 November 2011.
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Better luck at next year’s Savor the Bronx
Posted on 17 November 2011.
The 92-year-old Mario’s Restaurant on Arthur Avenue drew loyal customers during the borough’s first annual restaurant week.
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The bullet-dodging priest
Posted on 11 November 2011.
Over the past three decades, Rev. John Jenik of Our Lady of Refuge Church has watched his parish slip into the throes of drug and substance abuse at an alarming rate.
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Bengali immigrant savagely beaten
Posted on 05 November 2011.
Bengali community on edge after a Kingsbridge resident died from a brutal assault on Nov. 4.
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Mysteries remain in the wake of a college student’s death
Posted on 02 November 2011.
College student Kennedy Brown died by a gunshot wound to the head in September. Police have yet to offer leads or suspects in the case.
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Landlord ordered to pay tenant $33,000
Posted on 02 November 2011.
A Bronx woman is due to collect more than $33,000 from her landlord, after she was overcharged on her rent for nearly three years.
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Back in baked goods
Posted on 31 October 2011.
A bakery destroyed by fires two years ago makes its return to Norwood.
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Family and neighbors remember life of slain Eastchester teen
Posted on 18 October 2011.
Simmons Jr. led the surrounding crowd in a prayer. “In Jesus name may we all pray that we get to see something beyond,” he said to the crowd. “Because this man was denied the greatest facets of life. Amen.”
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