After a year of renovation, Edgar Allen Poe’s cottage in the Bronx reopened to the public on October 15.
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Poe’s Cottage reopens
Posted on 17 October 2011.
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Who has the oldest store in Norwood?
Posted on 17 October 2011.
Two Norwood storeowners debate over who has the oldest store in Norwood.
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Aspiring rapper slain near Soundview
Posted on 11 October 2011.
Mott Haven man was killed outside the Sotomayor public housing complex, a block from where a 22-year-old woman was murdered on Sept. 25.
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Sally Dunford: a passionate advocate for Norwood
Posted on 08 October 2011.
In a tiny, first-floor office at the northern tip of the Bronx, Sally Dunford sat among two cluttered desks squeezed in by several more filing cabinets, fielding phone calls that came in every few minutes or so.“Can I talk to you in five?” she said to one caller. “I’m not sure if you’re in my […]
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Bronx synagogue welcomes Jewish New Year with a last goodbye
Posted on 03 October 2011.
Lifelong congregants of Temple Emanuel at Parkchester say other synagogues in the Bronx are also experiencing precipitous declines in membership
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Muggings in the Oval
Posted on 29 September 2011.
During the past month alone, at least five people have been assaulted at the Oval Park in broad daylight, police said.
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Woman gets slap on the wrist for animal cruelty
Posted on 28 September 2011.
A Bronx mother who left her pitbull puppy to die a “horrible death” in a vacant apartment received a light sentence yesterday after making a tearful plea for forgiveness.
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Bronx college student found shot in the head
Posted on 24 September 2011.
Bedford Park residents on “pins and needles” after the senseless killing of 25-year-old Kennedy Brown.
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