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May 12, 2012
A Breakdown of the NYC Bike Share Map
The bicycles are comin'! The bicycles are comin'!Yesterday, the New York City Department of Transportation released the initial 420 bike share station locations for the program that will unleash (eventually) 10,000 bikes onto the already crammed streets of New York by 2013. Influenced by NYU's ... More >>
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May 10, 2012
Bronx Advocates Call for Alternatives to Arrests of Students Inside Public Schools (UPDATED)
This afternoon, parent advocates in the Bronx are organizing a march that will start at a transportation hub in the borough, move to a suspensions hearing center onward to an early care education site, and then to an elementary school and a middle school. The final destination of the rally is a juve ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2012
Twelve Teen Girls Wanted In Subway Assault, French Fry Robbery *VIDEO*
The New York Police Department is asking the public's help in tracking down 12 teenage girls who assaulted a couple of 16-year-olds on a Bronx subway in March. Prior to the assaults, the pack of teens stole the french fries one of the female victims was eating (see video of the assault released by p ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2012
Once Upon a Time in the Bronx: Theatre of the Oppressed Explores Violence, Family Life
When directors with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC asked a group of teenage girls to strike a pose that they think represents the Bronx, most of them did the same thing: They chose images with weapons. This is how artist Melanie Crean remembers a workshop with around ten teenage girls in the Bronx, ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2012
"Week of Action" Wraps With Queens Court Singing Protest; 63 Arrested For The Week
The "Week of Action" --three foreclosure blockades at the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queen's Supreme Court--finished today with two dozen singing protestors storming Queen's court. Yesterday's action at Brooklyn led to 38 arrests. Unlike the Seabrook incident, most of the interactions between guards a ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2012
Zero Otto Nove's Bronx Vs. Manhattan Smackdown
In the Bronx, ZON's margherita is one of the city's most perfect evocations of that sainted Neapolitan pie. Today, Counter Culture compares two renditions of Roberto Paciullo's (of Roberto Restaurant fame) Zero Otto Nove: one on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, the other in the Flatiron District in Man ... More >>
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April 11, 2012
Robert Sietsema at Zero Otto Nove; Stars for The Toucan and the Lion and Kyo Ya
See what NYC's restaurant critics have been up to this week: In the Voice, Robert Sietsema compares the Bronx and Flatiron locations of Zero Otto Nove: "With the exception of the pizzas--which are not quite as perfect due to the use of less wood in the oven--Manhattan proves it can furnish food ev ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2012
Legal Loophole OK's Creepy New York Teachers
Nobody likes a loophole - law and order is often thwarted by technicalities, usually favoring the unjust players involved and screwing the rest of us. But what's more frustrating than a legal shortcut? One that involves children.Over the past three months, 14 cases involving 16 different teache ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2012
Unlawful Pot Busts Boom in The Bronx: Report
Looks like it might be a really bad week for civil liberties. The Bronx Defenders just released a study claiming that 41 percent of pot busts in the borough violated the rights of arrestees during the 5-month study period. Turns out that this practice persisted despite warnings from New York Po ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2012
Parent Group Visits All Schools In Need of Improvement In Struggling Bronx District
Juana Gonzalez, 35, standing on a quiet corner outside P.S. 58 in the Bronx yesterday afternoon, said she was feeling a bit nervous. The mother of three, whose two sons attend struggling schools in one of the city's lowest performing school districts, was waiting for dismissal -- but she wasn't ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2012
Cuban Singer Lubricates Herself In Hotel Bathrooms
Cuban spitfire Margarita Pracatan entertained the crowd of 32-year-old gays at the Laurie Beechman on Friday with her wacky wisdoms and zany song stylings, directed by Zach Udko. At one point, the malapropic marvel revealed that when she leaves the house for some fun, she doesn't want to come back ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2012
Advocates Rally Against Arrests of Minority Students in Public Schools
Add this to the list of grievances activists throughout the city have with the New York Police Department. Protests of the city's surveillance of Muslims and the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk policies have reached new heights in recent weeks. And today, activists are rallying around anothe ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2012
This Week In The Voice: Charli XCX Gets Bummed; Jenny Scheinman Innovates
In this week's Village Voice, out now: I preview the upcoming show by the sullen British pop singer Charli XCX (above, singing a stripped-down version of her stunning single "Stay Away") and review last Saturday's freestyle extravaganza in the Bronx, which was topped off by Stevie B; and Benjamin Lo ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
Q&A: Kathleen Adams On Momma's Hip Hop Kitchen And The Fight Against HIV/AIDS In The Bronx
For the last few years, Momma's Hip Hop Kitchen has celebrated the beginning of International Women's Month by bringing some of New York's best female MCs and poets to the Bronx's Hostos Community College, raising awareness for HIV/AIDS and placing before audiences that cross otherwise rigid boundar ... More >>
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February 14, 2012
City Panel Votes to Approve $128 Million FreshDirect Payoff (liveblog)
Last Tuesday, the city Industrial Development Agency announced that it and several other city and state bodies planned to hand over $128 million in grants, tax credits, and assorted vouchers to FreshDirect, which would use the cash to move its headquarters to the Bronx waterfront ... all the way fro ... More >>
News
February 8, 2012
House Arrest, Redefined
The NYCLU files suit over the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program for private property
Blogs
January 27, 2012
Phone Fiend on the Lose in the Bronx, Cops Say
A young woman has become another victim of iPhone theft -- through a subway snatch-and-grab. (But hey, at least she didn't get shot in back over it, like this Bronx man.) Cops say that the 26-year-old woman was on the north-bound 6-train, at the Bronx's Whitlock Avenue stop around 8 a.m. ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2012
Religious Leaders and Electeds Protest Mike Bloomberg in the Rain Prior to State of the City
The rain didn't stop a group of religious leaders and elected officials from rallying outside Morris High School in the Bronx today before the mayor's State of the City speech. Around 100 protestors were fenced in a block away from the school chanting under a sea of umbrellas. They had trekked to th ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2012
Armed Bronx Jacket Thief on the Loose
A man was robbed at gunpoint for his orange Marmot jacket in the Bronx recently, cops say. The sartorially minded scumbag (pictured here) approached a man on the corner of Hunts Point Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard on Dec. 14, pulled out a gun, took the victim's coat and nothing else, and then fled ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2012
Kirsten Gillibrand Launches 2012 With a Call for Increased Food Stamp Money, Better Access to Fresh Food
Electeds like to talk -- but U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand came to the Bronx today to listen. That's what Gillibrand said at the launch of an event this morning at Hostos Community College, where she joined Rep. Joe Crowley for a "listening session" on an upcoming Farm Bill, which Congre ... More >>
Blogs
December 12, 2011
Happy 75th Birthday, Henry Hudson Bridge!
The double-decker Henry Hudson Bridge, which links Manhattan to the Bronx, is 75 today! Originally designed for a casual jaunt in and out of the suburbs, the bridge became a thoroughfare once commuters started moving north. The Riverdale Public Library is celebrating the bridge's dodrascenten ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 9, 2011
Slick Rick
The double-decker Henry Hudson Bridge, which links Manhattan to the Bronx, is 75 today! Originally designed for a casual jaunt in and out of the suburbs, the bridge became a thoroughfare once commuters started moving north. The Riverdale Public Library is celebrating the bridge's dodrascenten ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2011
Saturday's Body Count: 1 Stabbed, 1 Shot (So Far)
Saturday's murder count began just one hour and 44 minutes into the day, with the stabbing death of Elmer Augusto Lopez, 24, at 238 Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn, pictured above. The NYPD's bulletin on the incident indicates just one stab wound to the torso, and no arrest has been made. ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2011
Bronx Restaurant Week Starts; Red Apple Supermarket Opens
Starting today, The Bronx is hosting its first restaurant week, "Savor the Bronx," which will run for two weeks. [NY Post] Red Apple Supermarket has opened in Downtown Brooklyn after several delays, the first full-service supermarket in the neighborhood in years. [NY Post] Stockbox Grocers ... More >>
Blogs
September 22, 2011
Female Subway Slasher Is Attacking 4 Train Riders
DCPICops and commuters are looking for a woman who's been attacking people at random on the 4 train in the Bronx. She's described as black or hispanic, between 17 and 25 years old, 5'5", and 165 pounds. The first reported attack happened on September 6 around 4:20 p.m. The attacker slashed a ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
10 Specials We Hope Bronx Restaurants Will Consider In Honor Of The Big Four's Impending Yankee Stadium Show
Mmm. wingy. A week from tonight, four titans of heavy metal—Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer—will come together at Yankee Stadium for The Big 4's East Coast concert. It's going to be great! The Bronx is pretty excited about the impending metal invasion, too, as evidenced b ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2011
Watch Some South Bronx Teens Make an Excellent Documentary About Bodegas
Bodega Down Bronx from the Center for Urban Pedagogy on Vimeo. Here's a good way to go into the weekend: a funny, engaging documentary about one of New York's most lamented food deserts, made by the teenagers who live there. Through a partnership with the Center for Urban Pedagogy, a group of Sout ... More >>
Blogs
August 18, 2011
Police Seek Unsuccessful Bronx Robber
The NYPD wants the public's help in locating a man wanted in connection with an attempted bank robbery on Friday, August 12 a little before 1 p.m. in the Bronx. The suspect attempted to rob a Capital One bank at 557 Melrose Avenue, where he stood in line for the teller. When he got to the front, ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2011
Police Seek Man In Bronx Shooting
Cops are seeking the public's assistance in finding a man suspected in an assault in the 42nd Precinct in the Bronx. On Monday, August 8th at around 5:10 p.m., police responded to a call at Freeman Street and Southern Boulevard and found a 22-year-old woman with a grazed gunshot wound to the chest ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2011
Man and Woman Wanted in Bronx Scam
Suspect #1The police are looking for a male-female duo who pulled off a grand larceny confidence scam in the Bronx. The description of the crime is a bit convoluted, but in short, the pair convinced the victim, a 26-year-old woman, to take out money from her bank account and hand it over to them, ... More >>
Blogs
August 8, 2011
Live: Grand Wizzard Theodore Brings It Back, Fred The Godson No-Shows At Simpson St. Block Party
Grand Wizzard Theodore, Illstyle and Peace Productions, Hip-Hop Kung Fu, and more Simpson Street, Casita Maria Saturday, August 6 Better than: Cowboys & Aliens. "Some of you might say I'm preaching to the choir," Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon, a former Zulu Nation member and our master of ... More >>
Blogs
July 25, 2011
Same-Sex Marriage, Bronx-Style
There were 42 marriage licenses given out Sunday in the Bronx, but wandering in and around the massive building, much of the courthouse crew seemed as indifferent to the historic day as the Yankee crowd had been on the train ride up. As much as I'd enjoyed the fanfare in Brooklyn and Manhat ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2011
Hit-and-Run Asshole Leaves the Scene of Accident, But Gets Caught on Tape
Neighborhood favorite Joey Boots took his camera down to the scene of a Bronx car accident last night just to survey the scene. Everyone appears safe, though a little shaken, while one of the cars involved, a Corvette, has its whole front end smashed and the battery removed. But that -- nor the came ... More >>
Blogs
July 5, 2011
Bronx Pop-Up Piano Actually Taken by Parks Department
Friends of the Williamsbridge Oval Remember the case of the stolen Sing for Hope piano in the Bronx? City Room has found the thief, who turned out to be not so much a thief, but the city's Parks Department. A spokeswoman for the department fessed up, telling the Times that "parks workers unkn ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2011
How to Say Those Unpronounceable New York City Place Names
Thanks to the pronunciation experts at the New York Times City Room blog, who told us the right way to say "Van Wyck" just weeks ago -- a Netherlands native says it's "Fon Weg"; do with that what you will -- we now know how to say three other place names that previously likely befuddled and b ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2011
Pop-Up Pianos Stolen, Vandalized
Esther ZuckermanThe Astor Place piano being installed. These are days the music died in the Bronx. Tragedies have struck two of of Sing for Hope's Pop-Up Pianos, whose installation we chronicled two weeks ago. This morning the Daily News reported that the piano at the Williamsbridge Oval was ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2011
Food Freaks to Feed New York Yet More Fancy Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Does New York have the appetite for yet another business peddling artisanally pimped-out grilled cheese sandwiches? Food Freaks Grilled Cheese certainly hopes so.
News
June 22, 2011
The Tranny Chaser Chaser
Gay guys who like straight guys who like guys dressed as girls
Blogs
June 7, 2011
Obscure European Aperitifs Are All the Rage; The Bronx Spawns New Beers
Little-known European aperitifs are all the rage these days, from Rabarbaro Zucca, a rhubarb-flavored amaro, to Becherovka, a cinnamon herbal liqueur from the Czech Republic. [NY Times] Jack Daniel's is tweaking the look of its iconic black-and-white label. For one, the "Lynchburg: Pop. 361" ... More >>
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May 6, 2011
Our 10 Best West African Restaurants in NYC
The peanut-dusted lamb kebabs called suya from northern Nigeria, available at Brooklyn's Buka In the late 80s, the typical Senegalese immigrant was a guy who furtively sold counterfeit watches and handbags on the street. He took his meals at temporary restaurants set up in SRO hotels rooms ... More >>
Dining
May 4, 2011
Papaye, Uptown African Restaurant and Accra—Three Ghanaian Restaurants in Bronx Hill Country
How orange was my valley...
Blogs
April 30, 2011
The Big 4 Are Playing Yankee Stadium This September
via FacebookWho gave Mustaine the keys to the Photoshop demo? (Just kidding, Dave!)This is the news: The second concert event at the new Yankee Stadium has been announced, and oh boy is it a doozy. The metal deities Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax--d/b/a The Big 4--have announced, af ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2011
NYPD Ticket Fixing Scandal: Third Prosecutor Added to Handle Expected Mass of Disciplinary Cases
The NYPD has transferred a third civilian attorney to its department advocate's office to handle disciplinary cases arising from the ticket fixing scandal -- which could envelope anywhere from 40 to 500 officers and union delegates, depending on various reports. In previous weeks, two lawye ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2011
The Midnight Eez Come Out Of The Demo-Tape Depths
2011's most un-hyped rap release has arrived. It's by a group so under-the-radar that even its record label, All City, or the photographer who shot the mysterious image on its album's cover, Sue Kwon, have no idea who the two people in it are--other than that the duo once went by the name The ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2011
Samuel Saunders Case: Hey, You Two, Cops Want a Word About His Turning Up Dead in the Bronx
Cops have released a video of two guys they want to question about an April 14 homicide in Parkchester. At 10:20 that morning at 2055 St. Raymond's Avenue, cops found Samuel Saunders, 42, shot in the head and DOA in his living room in Apartment 3B. Now, the NYPD says these two guys, seen here in t ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2011
NYPD Ticket-Fixing Scandal is No Big Deal, According to NYPD
The New York Times chimes in this morning on the big (?), bubbling scandal at the New York Police Department in which around two dozen officers in the Bronx could face allegations of making traffic violations disappear for friends, family or otherwise important people. While it's likely that ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 13, 2011
JOY RIDE
Go trailblazing in the Bronx
Blogs
April 11, 2011
NYPD to Face Huge Ticket-Fixing Scandal?
DNAinfo reports that the New York Police Department is gearing up to face "a police scandal the likes of which the city has not felt in decades," which could very well be a huge overreaction, but still sounds thrilling. The reality is far less exhilarating than it first seems, but still might ... More >>
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April 8, 2011
2 Killed in Bronx Barrage of Gunfire
Two people were killed in a barrage of gunfire Thursday night near Devoe Park in University Heights in the Bronx, cops say. One was 17, the other 22. The "hail of bullets," as the Post puts it, also caught a 40-year-old man, who was wounded in the leg. As of early this morning, cops hadn't releas ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
The Bronx Is the Most Unhealthy Place in New York
Major League Baseball has its opening day today, and the Yankees might want to station some ambulances outside the stadium for their fans. It seems that the Bronx has maintained its title of least healthy borough, out of the 62 counties of New York state, for the second year in a row, via a s ... More >>
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