Bronx News Roundup, Oct. 25

While you were sleeping, Bronx Ink documented the goings on at the Fulton Fish Market.

Also getting some Ink: The Morrisania post office is one of 18 in the Bronx on the chopping block.

Everyone's wondering what the Occupy protesters are going to do as the temperature drops. City Limits has some answers.

Yesterday was Food Day in New York City, and Sen. Gustavo Rivera used it as an opportunity to continue to push his Bronx CAN Health Initiative at the Academy of Mt. St. Ursula in Bedford Park and to announce that he's lost 16 lbs. of the 20 he pledged to lose at the start of the initiative.

Now here's a good idea: Community Board 11's district manager Jeremy Warneke is taking a monthly tour with a Buildings Department Inspector of local apartment buildings with lots of violations. He's already discovered some illegal basement apartments. (Video)

Capital has this terrific in-depth story that takes a look at the struggles of a Chinese take-out restaurant in Mott Haven. It's also interesting how the reporter ended up profiling this particular establishment.

More delays for an ice skating rink planned for Van Cortlandt Park, The Riverdale Press reports.

Bronx News Roundup, Dec. 22

With Related Companies’ Kingsbridge Armory redevelopment proposal dead in the water, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. is rethinking what he'd like to see there. One idea: creating a "green" manufacturing hub.

Four men were shot and injured last night during a drive-by shooting in Mount Eden.

A stretch of stinking marshland in Mott Haven has been drained.

Here's The Times story about yesterday's fire on 204th Street. And here's all our coverage.

Norwood gets a mention in today's Wall Street Journal, not because of the fire, but because of soaring unemployment in the north Bronx.

A school bus collided with a police car in East Tremont this morning. Nine people, including six children, suffered minor injuries.

A Bronx food pantry with more visitors than food has been given $2,000 in cash by an anonymous woman who read about the pantry - run out of Transfiguration Lutheran Church on East 156th Street - in the Daily News.

The Center for Urban Community Services has opened a "Single Stop" office on Southern Boulevard, to help Bronx residents determine whether they qualify for different types of public assistance.

A woman who worked at the New Fulton Fish Market in Hunts Points says she was sexually harassed and forced out of her job.

A Bronx high school student has started a FaceBook page (current membership: 76,339 and counting) to protest budget cuts that would eliminate free MetroCards for students.

The Village Voice has nice things to say about El Nuevo Bohio a restaurant on East Tremont Avenue that's serious about pork.

The principal of Bronx Academy of Letters, a high school in Mott Haven, is to become Los Angeles' deputy mayor for education.