In late September, several residents of Villa Charlotte Brontë cooperative in the Bronx awaited permission to return home after Tropical Storm Irene caused a landslide at their building. The wait continues. NY Times reports there is concern about the stability of the foundation of two of the buildings overlooking the Hudson River.
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Cemetery for famous registered as national landmark, Norwood News
Posted on 25 October 2011.
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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Officials encourage Bronx students to have better diets, NY1
Posted on 25 October 2011.
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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Tyra Banks pays surprise visit to Bedford Park high school to encourage kids to keep up high attendance rates, NY Daily News
Posted on 25 October 2011.
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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Bronx parents say new law won’t ease overcrowding issue in schools, NY Daily News
Posted on 24 October 2011.
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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Bronx family sues cop for smacking dog out a third-story window, NY Daily News
Posted on 24 October 2011.
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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Bronx church tests First Amendment guarantees before Supreme Court, UPI
Posted on 23 October 2011.
“Will a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court succeed in putting God back into the public schools, at least when classes aren’t being held?” the news agency UPI asked. At issue in the case is whether government can ban worship services of a Bronx congregation at a school property, to enforce the constitutional separation of […]
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Feds to investigate housing projects in the Bronx, Brooklyn, NY Daily News
Posted on 23 October 2011.
Tthe U.S. Labor Department and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development are probing underpayment and kickbacks at affordable housing projects in the Bronx and Brooklyn, the NY Daily News learned. At the Bronx construction site site – 780 Prospect Ave. – workers are reportedly due $575,000. The Bronx apartment building opened with […]
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