The Weather is a State of Mind

As I write this, January 12th, 2011, is being clad in an ever thickening jacket of snow. Most of us are going to have to find our way to work through the cold white stuff. Just wanted to change the mood a bit with a photograph I made during the Bronx Dominican Pride Parade on July 25, 2010.

Bronx News Roundup, July 27

Some of the colorful sights and sounds from the Bronx Dominican Parade yesterday. The Bronx is now home to an estimated 300,000 Dominicans.

Bronxites and other advocates have another opportunity to weigh in on the Related Companies' plan to turn the Kingsbridge Armory into a shopping mall, this time in front of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. (More on this later this afternoon.)

A roller coaster at a Pelham Bay church festival derailed on Saturday night, injuring 11 kids.

The Daily News says most of the exciting new architetecture in the borough is coming from community service buildings like the Bronx Library Center and Bronx Museum.

A recently arrested fugitive says he's been in the Bronx the past three years. Police say he's been on the lamb abroad.

A recent poll says only 6% of Latinos, who make up the vast majority of his consituents, approve of Bronx State Senator Pedro Espada's performance in Albany. The Puerto Rican-born Espada has tried to paint his flip-flopping among political parties, which resulted in his being named majority leader, as a move to empower Latinos, but apparently their not seeing it that way.