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.
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
Halloween in Norwood, the Bronx
Monday, October 24, 2011
Bronx News Roundup, Oct. 24
More than 6,000 bikers participated in yesterday's 17th annual Tour de Bronx, a bike ride that circles the entire borough. (Video) If you went and have photos, send us one at bronxnewsnetwork-at-gmail.com. We'll post some!
From the Daily News today: PS 8 in Bedford Park has as many as 40 students in a classroom but new legislation requiring the Department of Education to provide more details in their reports on school capacity won't fix the perennail rampant overcrowding in local schools, parents say. What will? Building more schools.
The issues of whether the Bronx Household of Faith can use PS 15 for its Sunday services is a national issue with this latest report from UPI. Norwood News had this in-depth report back in June.
Supermodel Tyra Banks surprised 400 students at the High School for Teaching and the Professions at the Walton campus in Kingsbridge Heights last Wednesday, bringing her Get Schooled Foundation agenda to the college bound.
A nun who has been in her Hunts Point Parish for 49 years celebrated 60 years in the Sisters of Charity despite her being dismissed, along with other church staff, by the church's new pastor.
Councilman Fernando Cabrera talks about his legislation to require the NYPD to release crime data for sectors within precincts, an issue raised by the Norwood News and BxNN.
Twelve people are running the New York Marathon to support the large social service organization BronxWorks.
Speaking of BronxWorks, it was one of eight organizations citywide to be awarded a city contract to develop an Innovative Senior Center. According to the Nonprofit Press, "Innovative Senior Centers will be held accountable for producing vibrant programs, high participation rates and better health outcomes for older New Yorkers."
Shootings are up in the Bronx and throughout the city.
Affordable housing construction projects, including some in the Bronx, are under scrutiny by the city and feds for wage infractions and kickbacks.
The HUB business district on East 149th Street now has a Facebook page.
Bronx Underground is having a Halloween Party on Oct. 29.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Giant Pumpkin Carver's Quest Brings Him to the Bronx
Scott Cully's Giant Jack-o-Lantern from Alex Kratz on Vimeo.
Video: Scott Cully talks about engineering challenges in carving giant pumpkins, his vision for this particular pumpkin and some of the tools he uses.
As an Oregon farmer, Scott Cully grows one of nature's smallest fruits: blueberries. But his passion in life -- or "quest" as he calls it -- leads him to the world's largest pumpkins, which he transforms into the world's largest jack-o-lanterns.
This weekend, Cully's quest brings him to the north Bronx's New York Botanical Garden, where he is molding the latest record-breaking pumpkin, raised in Wisconsin and driven here in the back of pickup truck, into a spooky and somewhat gory three-faced jack-o-lantern (he talks about his vision in the video above).
The giant pumpkin-carving bug bit Cully on a sunshine-drenched fall day in 1988 when Cully was living in Hartford, Conn., where he grew up (he now lives in Eugene, Ore.). After harvesting a 400-pound pumpkin from his personal patch, Cully sat down with his wife, a "smoking hot" pitcher of apple cider, a bunch of knives and went to work. He took the jack-o-lantern to a Halloween party that night. It was a hit. He's been carving enormous pumpkins ever since.
Cully says he usually carves about 10-12 pumpkins a year; at casinos, shopping malls and county fairs throughout the United States. "I always try to find the biggest pumpkins," he says.
The gregarious Cully started carving today. This afternoon, he posed for photos with Garden visitors, making faces and stabbing motions toward his latest creation. He will be working publicly tomorrow during the day and finishing up on Sunday around noon.
"It's great, I've never seen anything like it," said Garden volunteer Marge Graham.
Flanking Cully's piece will be almost-as-big pumpkins carved by local pumpkin-carving artists Michael Natiello (who is turning into a furrowy-browed, big-eyed face with a stem nose) and Sara Mussen (hers will consist of spiders and spider webs: "a little creepy but not too scary"). Natiello and Mussen work together carving pumpkins in Westchester. They are working on the Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze at Croton-on-Hudson's Van Cortlandt Manor.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Bronx News Roundup, Oct. 28
Charges were dropped against a fourth suspect in the Morris Heights anti-gay attacks case. Four of the 11 suspects arrested have been indicted.(Note: there will be a "March for Dignity" today at noon at Bronx Community College in support of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered people. The march will go all the way to Osborne Street where the attacks took place.)
Police have arrested a 40-year-old man and charged him with stabbing a 17-year-old Bronx girl to death. We originally reported on this yesterday. Apparently the 17-year-old, Luzbenet Ramirez, was staying with the man arrested, Jose Mendez, and his girlfriend.
Former Giants football star Lawrence Taylor is due back in court today to face charges of statutory rape involving a 16-year Bronx girl.
Anticipating an increase in crime and hijinks, police say they'll beef up patrols in the Bronx this Halloween weekend.
Often, little pranks like throwing eggs at a car can lead to tragedy, as in 1998 when a 21-year-old Bronx man was shot after confronting a group of egg throwers.
Author Tom Wolfe and Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson talk about "larger-than-life" Bronx judge Burton Roberts who died Sunday.
The scene at the Riverdale stop of the Tour de Bronx.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Bronx Halloween Guide
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| Decorative pumpkins on display at the New York Botanical Garden's Halloween Hoorah (photo by NYBG) |
Plenty of Halloween fun in the Bronx this week, leading up to the big day on Sunday. Here's a rundown of some haunted happenings taking place in the borough. Read more after the jump.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Many Faces of Halloween
I made these photographs walking around Norwood on Halloween evening.
Hope you enjoy them.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Upcoming Bronx Events, Through November 2 (Lots ghoulishly fun events for this Halloween weekend)
The Van Cortlandt House Museum (pictured above, Broadway & West 246th Street ) will be transformed into a haunted house on Halloween, Saturday, Oct. 31. A group of historians will transform the museum and its grounds into a gory 18th Century exhibit. Event begins at 4 p.m. For tickets, call (718) 543-3344.
Today the Bronx River Arts Center will be having a Halloween party and open house for new, returning, and past students. Talk with teachers and staff, enjoy Halloween tricks, treats, and games, and view artwork currently installed at the center. The event will run from 4 to 7 p.m. on the fourth floor. For more information visit www.bronxriverart.org.
Tomorrow (Oct. 30), the St. Philip Neri School in Bedford Park (3031 Grand Concourse) will be hosting a Haunted School House. Tickets are $10 and include a haunted walk and music from 7 to 10 p.m. Safe and secure Halloween fun for the entire family
Join the Urban Park Rangers to Celebrate Samhain this Saturday (Oct. 31) with a nature walk through the woods at Van Cortlandt Park. During the walk, participants will learn about Celtic and Druidic cultural roots in modern Halloween traditions. Visitors should meet at the nature center, inside the park at Broadway and 246th St. The event begins at 1 p.m.
Kids between the ages of 2 and 10 are invited to participate in a Halloween Fun Run at Van Cortlandt Park this Saturday (Oct. 31). Children are encouraged to wear costumes during the event, which will take place at 2 p.m. at Van Cortlandt Stadium, Broadway and 241st Street.
The Uptown Coffeehouse presents The Work O' The Weavers on Sunday November 1 at 5 p.m. at 4450 Fieldston Road (the Riverdale Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture Bldg.) Admission is $18. Bronx cultural cards are accepted. For more information, call (718) 885-2955 or visit www.uptowncoffeehouse.org.
This will be the last weekend that the Bronx Zoo will be hosting Boo at the Zoo. Events include a haunted hayride, musical performances, a hay maze, treat stations located around the zoo and much more. Children between the ages of 3 and12 will receive free admission alongside a paying adult if they wear a wildlife themed costume. Limit one free child admission per adult. For more information, click here.
On November 1, come to the River Masquerade, a family art project, to make a mask or costume to wear in a parade of river life celebrating the Hudson, (free with admission to the grounds), in the Kerlin Learning Center at Wave Hill, located at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, from 1 to 4 p.m. For more information, call (718) 549-3200 or visit their website here.
The Bronx Library Center will be hosting Code Breakers!, an event for young adults on Nov. 3 at 4 p.m. The Center is located at 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd., just off Fordham Road. For a detailed schedule, call (718) 579-4244 ex.46 or visit www.nypl.org.
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