Bronx cemetery accepting applicants for summer internship
"It seems like it's hard work but it's smart work," Luis Cruz said.
From Polish ghetto to Bronx slaughterhouse
"All our beef comes from steer. Those are male cows that have been castrated."
Bronx principal reassigned over threat to blow up staff
"It's not the first time the school leader has landed in hot water."
Baby porcupine on display at Bronx Zoo
"Despite popular belief, porcupines cannot shoot their quills."
Bronx hospital worker found dead at desk "may have been masturbating"
"He was partly undressed and pornography was playing on a computer nearby."
YouTube account Dash Cam Video Driver drives Gun Hill Road:
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| Take Jerry out to the ballgame, 1969 |
"A baseball fan since childhood, he hired a 40-piece band and eight background singers to record the national anthem as a gift for the Yankees in 1963. The recording became a fixture at sporting events for years and was the first song inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y."
"The crazed cross-dresser set fire to papers and shoved them into the opening of the token booth’s glass facing at the D train station at 182nd St./183rd St. in Fordham at 4:50 p.m."Swastika-Wearing Cabbie Says He Doesn't Hate Jews
"Perhaps the most interesting part of the interview was a question Diaz, who is not white, posed to reporter Young. 'Who says you have to be white to be a National Socialist?' he asked.""Stealing? I'll teach you!"
The grocery store fight that opened the 1995 Jackie Chan film Rumble In The Bronx:
'Cross our picket line and we'll put your picture online.' - that is the tactic that is employed by motel workers in the Bronx who are unhappy with recent cuts in their salary and benefits. The picket line is occurring at the Capri Whitestone Motel where rooms can be rented in four-hour blocks.Pete Wentz & son Bronx wear matching black outfits for day of shopping
The 34-year-old bassist held hands with Bronx Mowgli as they spent a day shopping together in Sherman Oaks, California on Saturday. Carrying a Gap bag, Pete was smiling as he walked along, apparently enjoying the time with his son, whose mother is Pete's ex-wife Ashlee Simpson.
The female suspect then pulled out a gun. The three tried to tie the victim up with duct tape.
Snow showers on Tuesday night and scattered snow showers on Wednesday.Beer returns to the Bronx
After 50 years without a working brewery, mash tuns and fermentation tanks are once again chugging along in the borough.Dinosaurs return to the Bronx
In an exclusive first peek, The Daily News saw a dozen new dinosaurs being wheeled into the zoo on forklifts after arriving in the Bronx by truck at about 10 a.m. Monday.Grapplers Grunt for the Bronx
By day, the men are construction workers and restaurant managers—but by night, they turn into the Caveman and the Big Heavy, all taking part in the monthly spectacle organized by the Bronx Wrestling Federation, or BWF.
Platinum Pleasures, the last remaining strip club in Hunts Point, has shut its doors — but in lieu of lap dances, a neighborhood pastor wants to turn the former jiggle joint into a place of worship.
Skyrocketing rents are helping to push a growing number of Bronx families into homelessness, stretching resources even thinner in the borough that already counts the highest number of occupants in the city shelter system.
Although the county is one of the nation's poorest, the paper reports, it's also the third-most dense, so developers see an opportunity for customers to make a lot of lower-priced purchases that still add up to big bucks.
Police are now searching for the suspect, described as about 5'7" to 5'8" tall and stocky in build. He was last seen wearing a multi-colored dress with a black hooded jacket and a red hooded coat.
Bronx laundry boss charged with throwing coffee into worker's eyes cops plea for menacingHighlighting this new climate-controlled lounge, which will be located behind home plate on the Field Level, will be an upscale bar and food action stations with a variety of offerings. Complimentary snacks and nonalcoholic beverages will be available inside the lounge.Field MVP Club seats and the accompanying benefits will only be available on a full-season basis and will feature lower pricing with further reduced pricing options available for full-season multiyear contracts.
Perlson flipped out in 2009 when the worker, Jose Luis Diaz, refused to take a bribe to stop organizing with a union, court papers in a related civil case said.Thieves cut hole in floor above Bronx apartment to burglarize it
The crooks, including one who was obese, were caught on surveillance video leaving the building with large black plastic bags brimming with computer equipment, clothing and cash.Forget Manhattans, drink The Bronx
Basically a martini with a dash of orange, [the Bronx] was rated 3rd in the World's Most Famous Cocktails in 1934, just one spot below the Manhattan.
News from around the Yankees' home borough...
• COLD OLDIES: There's so much snow, old people would rather starve at home than go out in that shit!The place to be on Super Bowl Sunday was at Tosca Cafe, 4038 East Tremont Ave in the Bronx, featuring a decadent free buffet of hot pretzels, popcorn, Miami Cuban sandwiches, fried yuca and wings. The waitresses & bartenders of Tosca enhanced the atmosphere by dressing in one of the Superbowl Team Colors and naming themselves the T-Birdies.
“They’re not shoveling at the corners, so you basically have to swim,” [a senior who wished to remain anonymous] said, adding, “And those motorists! They never slow down for people. We get drowned!”• DUMB COPS: A man in custody for beating his girlfriend and assaulting a police officer escaped by pretending to be some other dude!
Yesterday morning he managed to convince court officials at East 161st Street that he was a different detainee, one held on a lesser charge, and they let him go... He's 22, about six feet tall, 180 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes, and tattoos of a red scorpion holding a heart with letters on the left side of his neck, and a star on the right side.• MY GIRL: Sung by the funny and charming Bronx Subway Singer:
News from around the Yankees' home borough...
This weekend the NYPD had one of its gun buyback programs in The Bronx, in which they gave $200 cash cards to anyone turning in a firearm, no questions asked. In 2008 Brooklyn took in nearly 700 guns in one day and that was considered a big success. This weekend's Bronx event, held at four local churches, took in 1,186 firearms -- a new city record.• Bronx youth takin' it to the 'burbs:
MONTROSE - A Bronx man and woman were arrested with $10,000 in heroin Tuesday night and accused of drug dealing around Coachlight Square, Westchester County police said.• The Archbishop of Canterbury is all like, I gotta see this Bronx shit with my own eyes:
People lined up along the fence outside St. Ann's Episcopal Church in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx Jan. 27 waiting for their turn to get inside -- not to get a glimpse of Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, who was incidentally visiting, but to shop the parish's weekly Wednesday morning food pantry.UPDATE: Check the comments for a link to an important developing story about skunks!
Williams arrived and left with little fanfare. More food pantry clients lined up along the fence outside, paying little notice.
The Williamsbridge Road office, established by former state senator and Republican Committee chairman Guy Velella, sat in the middle of its block on the second floor of an unmarked building. A steep staircase to the office kept seniors and disabled Republicans away.• The Norwood News and Mount Hope Monitor, two -- what were they called? -- "news-papers," are teaching Bronx teen-agers some dead Amish thing to prepare them for the past:
“Our landlord prohibited signs on the building,” Ramftl explained. “Some people had no idea we were there.”
Students will learn the fundamentals of writing, reporting, and photojournalism through classroom instruction, and through hands-on reporting in their own neighborhoods.• Meanwhile, in Riverdale, they're really getting sick of President Obama's shit:
“I am disappointed with his need to try and make everyone happy,” Mr. Enright wrote. “It seems to me that to improve this country we’ll have to make some people unhappy, like health industry and Wall Street crooks. I wanted Obama to do it. He has not done it.”
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