Progress is finally coming to a small street in the Riverdale section of the Bronx – if you consider sidewalks progress. The city is demanding that homeowners on a little-used, dead-end street make expensive improvements, CBS 2′s John Slattery reports. (CBS)
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Bronx residents outraged over DOT sidewalk demands
Posted on 02 December 2010.
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New York archdiocese may close Bronx parochial school St. Augustine School
Posted on 02 December 2010.
Parishoners at a Bronx Catholic church could lose their school – and possibly their place of worship. St. Augustine School in Morrisania is one of six Bronx parochial schools facing closure by the New York Archdiocese because of dwindling enrollment and mounting deficits. (NY Daily News)
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Education dept. charges Bronx teacher, ex-sex worker Melissa Petro with conduct “unbecoming”
Posted on 02 December 2010.
Sex worker-turned-teacher Melissa Petro was charged Wednesday with conduct “unbecoming a teacher,” a city Education Department spokeswoman said. (NY Daily News)
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Men sought in Bronx, Manhattan muggings
Posted on 02 December 2010.
Police are searching for the man wanted for a string of elevator robberies in the Bronx and Manhattan. (NY1)
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Two charged in Bronx Antigay attacks were victims, indictment says
Posted on 02 December 2010.
Two of the young men initially charged in the October antigay attacks in the Bronx were actually among its victims, according to a 75-count indictment unsealed on Wednesday. Prosecutors had already dropped charges against the two teenagers in the weeks after their arrest. (NY Times)
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Lifting spirits with music passed down through generations
Posted on 01 December 2010.
Dave Levitt, a fourth-generation klezmer musician, entertains older residents at the Jewish Home Lifecare center in the Bronx. (NY Times)
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Bronx fire victim positively identified as cops hunt group of teens
Posted on 01 December 2010.
Cops Tuesday confirmed the identify of the man found dead in a Bronx blaze over the Thanksgiving weekend that forced more than 100 residents into the cold. (NY Daily News)
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Bronx churches “violated” as number of break-ins at holy places increases
Posted on 01 December 2010.
Police launched extra patrols Tuesday around Bronx churches and parochial schools hit with a recent string of break-ins. (NY Daily News)
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