Bronx News Network

City Limits Acquires Bronx News Network

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:12:00 +0000

In September, City Limits acquired Bronx News Network (BxNN). For more information on our plans to re-launch BxNN, visit www.bxnn.org. Thanks!

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For Updated Bronx News and Updates, Visit Breaking Bronx at NorwoodNews.org

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:40:00 +0000

The Bronx News Network is in a transitional phase and has suspended posting for the time being. We'll be providing updates in the near future. In the meantime, for the latest Bronx news updates and stories, visit Breaking Bronx, the new borough-wide blog published by the Norwood News. Aside from our daily news updates and stories, Breaking Bronx provides special feature posts, including the interactive Be Healthy! column on Wednesdays, the Bronx Sports Report on Thursdays and the Bronx...

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De Blasio Announces Support of Living Wage Legislation

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:16:00 +0000

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has come out in support of the Living Wage legislation, sending a letter yesterday to Christine Quinn, the Council speaker. Quinn has not yet signaled whether she's going to allow a vote on the bill.

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NYT: Ruben Diaz, Jr. Considering Mayoral Bid

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:52:00 +0000

A piece in today's New York Times about the current state of the mayoral field reports that Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. is mulling a run.

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Bronx News Roudup, Dec. 6

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:47:00 +0000

The Supreme Court decided not to review a lower court decision that upholds the city's right to refuse to provide space in city schools for religious groups. The case emanated from the Bronx Household of Faith's use of PS 15 on Andrews Avenue in University Heights. Councilman Fernando Cabrera, a pastor himself, is proposing a change to state law to allow for the use of public schools for religious services. Norwood News has a lovely farewell to Sal of Sals's Pizza on Bainbridge Avenue, who...

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Bronx News Roundup, Nov. 28

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:53:00 +0000

Jenny (J-Lo that is) was, uh, not on the block in a Fiat ad in which she appears to be in the Boogiedown navigating the streets but isn't. A Bronx teen creates a 3-D printer. The public corruption trial of Councilman Larry Seabrook is expected to wrap up this week. A teen is recovering after being shot outside his Norwood apartment last week. A growing population of Mexican immigrants in the Bronx and NYC are falling way behind in high school graduation rates. This story in...

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Bronx News Roundup, Nov. 23

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:31:00 +0000

Today, we're devoting the roundup to the living wage legislation, which was debated in a City Council Committee hearing yesterday. Norwood News tweeted live from the hearing. One of the focuses of a New York Times article is Council Speaker Christine Quinn's questioning of both sides, including her asking opponents of the bill if they'd support it if it were scaled back to only include gigantic developments like stadiums and airports. Maybe, they said. As Azi Paybarah of Capital...

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Bronx Alehouse and POTS Partner to Help Hungry

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:59:00 +0000

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Bronx News Roundup, Nov. 16

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:17:00 +0000

The latest episode in the Seabrook trial features Stanley Schlein, a long-time attorney/counselor/fixer/ballot-challenger for Bronx Democratic political powers, and sheds a little light on the connection between business and politics in the borough. St. Augustine Church, a 162-year-old parish in the south Bronx, is being closed and merged with Our Lady of Victory Church. With Thanksgiving a week away, POTS (Part of the Solution) co-executive director Jack Marth writes about the programs...

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Bronx News Roundup, Nov. 15

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:14:00 +0000

On Twitter this morning @CityHallNews reports the following: "Mayoral spox [spokesman] jokes that #ows [Occupy Wall Street] protesters can now occupy Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx." [no link] An electric truck factory will open in the Bronx. In a big reorganization Catholic church pastors will no longer be responsible for the schools in their parishes. Good news and bad news for Williamsbridge Oval Park, where Parks Commissioner Adrain Benepe is scheduled to formally cut the ribbon...

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Living Wage Battle Heats Up

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:17:00 +0000

In preparation for a long-awaited Nov. 22 City Council hearing on Living Wage legislation, which has its roots in the battle over the fate of the Kingsbridge Armory, supporters, including several Council members, are stepping up their p.r. campaign.

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Bronx News Roundup, Nov. 14

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:50:00 +0000

If you click on nothing else in this roundup today, click on this. It's a fascinating interview in SchoolBook with PS 86 principal Sheldon Benardo, whose school has received an A in the last five school report cards. What's particularly interesting is how candid Benardo is about being a "beneficiary of a corrupt system." When he became assistant principal and then a principal at PS 7 it was a direct result of political connections through his brother. He was barely interviewed for the principal...

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Bronx News Roundup, Nov. 11

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:57:00 +0000

Happy Veterans' Day. Four shootings and three murders in the northwest Bronx in the last two weeks have the community on edge. Twenty fifth and sixth graders from PS 86 (the school right behind the Kingsbridge Armory) are headed to Paris -- really. Macy's, opening its first store in the five boroughs in 15 years, is coming to Bay Plaza. A beloved three-year-old restaurant in Melrose is closing its doors. The latest in the Seabrook corruption...

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Kappstatter on BronxTalk tonight

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:22:00 +0000

Bob Kappstatter questioning former State Senator Pedro Espada on primary night 2010. Photo by Adi Talwar Gary Axelbank will be interviewing veteran reporter Bob Kappstatter, who is leaving the Daily News after 43 years, on BronxTalk tonight at 9 p.m. on Cablevision channel 67.

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Bronx News Roundup, Nov. 7

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:24:00 +0000

Buzunesh Deba, a Kingsbridge resident, came in an agonizingly close second in yesterday's NYC Marathon. (Photo by Mohammed Ademo, The Bronx Ink) A Kingsbridge resident, Buzunesh Deba, who hails from Ethiopia came in second in yesterday's NYC Marathon, missing a win by only 4 seconds, the closest women's finish in marathon history. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. praised the local athlete who is sure to get many thumbs-up as she continues her training in the neighborhood. Mohammed Ademo...

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Say It Ain't So!

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:37:00 +0000

The Daily News lays off Bob Kappstatter, a 43-year veteran of the paper, whose weekly column on the borough is a must-read.

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Is Adolfo Carrion, Jr. Thinking of Running for Mayor?

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:33:00 +0000

The Perez Notes blog says yes.

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Bronx News Roundup, Nov. 4

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:46:00 +0000

Crazy. The city Board of Elections is spending millions of dollars to fully staff Election Day in the Bronx next Tuesday, even though the only person on the ballot is District Attorney Robert Johnson, who is running unopposed. In what tenant advocates say is the highest settlement in a case involving a landlord who overcharged a tenant, a Norwood woman should receive $33,0000 from Urban American Management. In Kappstatter's column this week: The ticket-fixing scandal he's...

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Halloween in Norwood, the Bronx

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0000

A school night with homework deadline did not deter hundreds of children from coming out for Halloween trick-or-treating on Monday. I took these photos on Bainbridge Avenue and East 204th Street. Click here for a slide show . The pirate's expression in the image below is exactly how I felt while making photographs on Halloween. Rawlat.com/adi aditalwar.blogspot.com

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Group Announces Project to Target Bane of Borough -- Cross Bronx Expressway

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:59:00 +0000

Two community leaders announced a long-term initiative to fix the Cross Bronx Expressway on BronxTalk on Monday night. Just click play to hear the whole story.

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Bronx News Roundup, Nov. 2

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:01:00 +0000

Is the creation of small specialized high schools siphoning off good students from the few still-remaining large schools like DeWitt Clinton, which just received an F on its progress report? That's the question posed by this article in the Daily News today. The Bronx added 3.8 percent more chain stores this year -- much more than the 1.6% citywide -- the Wall Street Journal reports following the release of a report from the Center for an Urban Future. The old Fordham Library will not...

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Bronx News Roundup, Nov. 1

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:08:00 +0000

The head of Skanska USA, the multi-national general contractor overseeing the troubled filtration plant project in Van Cortlandt Park took some questions from The New York Times and acknowledged there was a federal investigation into the use of disadvantaged business enterprises as subcontractors in public works projects and vowed it wouldn't happen again. He said: "It had to do with the use of disadvantaged business enterprises as subcontractors. We wound up settling with the Department...

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Cross Bronx Exclusive on BronxTalk

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:27:00 +0000

Tomorrow night BronxTalk will present your first look at the "Cross Bronx Expressway Initiative," a movement by some forward-thinking Bronxites to try to address the nation's worst highway and a virtual killer in the Bronx. Bronxnet's channel 67. 9 p.m. Monday night. One of New York City's longest running TV talk shows now in its 18th year, BronxTalk is seen each Monday night at 9:00pm on Bronxnet's Cablevision channel 67. It's also on Verizon Fios channel 33 and...

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Bronx News Roundup, Oct. 28

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:22:00 +0000

Bummer: A Nor'easter is headed our way. Restaurant Week in the Boogiedown (Savor the Bronx) and its featured restaurants are all well and good, says Gothamist, but there are many under-noticed culinary gems in the borough that deserve your attention. The Occupy Bronx protesters, who have been meeting at (but not really occupying) Fordham Plaza on Saturday have a famous borough-based corporate target in their sights: The New York Yankees. A new push to step up enforcement of...

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Data Dump: New On-Line Info Tells Us Where and How We Live and Rent

akratz@norwoodnews.org — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:15:00 +0000

New data sources highlighting housing and population trends in our borough and city are now on-line, including a great new database and interface from the Furman Center. The NYU housing research center recently debuted their brand new Subsidized Housing Information Project, also known as SHIP, that has a wealth of information about more than 2,500 properties in the city that have some form of subsidy that keeps rents affordable for tenants. The New York Times Real Estate Section recently...

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