The latest edition of the Norwood News is on-line now, with articles about bidders on the Kingsbridge Armory redevelopment project, a new elementary school and the first in a series on the member items controversy.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Books in the Hood!
This isn't West Bronx news per se, but it's good news for all Bronxites whenever a bookstore opens up shop. The only other two are Paperbacks Plus in Riverdale and Barnes & Noble in Co-op City. Here's info about the opening of Books in the Hood:
Saturday, Feb. 3, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Books In The HoodCelebration
& Grand Opening of a very unique bookstore in the South Bronx.
Books
In The Hood,815 Westchester Ave - btwn Prospect & Union AvesThe
Bronx
* The store is to be "Blessed" around 11
* Storytelling from 12
to 2* Visits from authors all day long
* Activities for the whole familyFor
more info, please send an email to:
teachermom423@aol.com
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Man Charged With Murder of Young Mom
Murder suspect Benjamin Walters (center) is escorted from the 46th Precinct last week after being charged with the Jan. 14 slaying of Fordham resident Carolyn Vargas. More here on the Mount Hope Monitor. (Photo by David Greene.)
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Friday, January 12, 2007
Woman Beaten and Robbed in Subway Station
A woman was attacked this morning in the subway station at 174th Street and the Grand Concourse.
CBS, who broke the story, initially said the woman was stabbed. More here. The incident happened around 10:45 a.m. No word yet on the woman's condition.
According to CBS, police had a male suspect cornered in a nearby building on Walton Avenue. By the time a reporter from the Mount Hope Monitor got there at 12:45 p.m., the street was quiet and there was no police activity.
A MTA employee working at the station told the Monitor reporter that the victim was "beaten and robbed" but not stabbed. She said the woman works at nearby Bronx Lebanon Hospital.
One police officer was slightly injured, CBS said. (Photo by James Fergusson)
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Senate Pork Sliced and Diced
The Albany Project site has this chart of state Senate member items district-by-district. They comment that the longer the red bar the closer that Republican senator's relationship with Sen. Majority Leader Joe Bruno. And those short blue bars? ... Well, you get the picture.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
All the Pork, All the Time
This terrific site run by a ragtag bunch of citizens interested in shining a spotlight on the ways of Albany and the state legislature has a lot of useful info links, including searchable member-item databases (see links at left of home page).
Monday, January 8, 2007
New Stories on the WBNN and the Monitor
The West Bronx News Network and the Mount Hope Monitor have been updated.
Stories include a look at a 24 foot high surveillance tower that is destined for East Fordham Road sometime in the new year. "Sky Watch" has been used in Iraq, Afghanistan, and along the Mexican border. Now, the NYPD are using it in several high crime neighborhood across the city.
Speaking of crime, the complete stats for 2006 are out. In the 46th Precinct - which patrols Mount Hope, Morris Heights and the rest of Community District 5 - there's good news: Crime is down 12 percent on 2005, compared to a five percent reduction citywide. But drugs and violence remain serious problems, and the precinct made more arrests last year than any other in the city. Click here for more. (In November the Mount Hope Monitor profiled the 46th Precinct and its commanding officer, Kevin Harrington, at length. Click here for the article.)
Friday, January 5, 2007
Kingsbridge Rd. Doc Update
The Journal News has more details on the slaying of Leandro Lozada, the Kingsbridge Road doctor who was slain in his Yonkers home.
Norwood News On-Line
The latest issue of the Norwood News is on-line (a little delayed due to the holidays) including a fun story about a new dream playground at PS 246 (b-ball court and track pictured here) on the Grand Concourse at Kingsbridge Road. (Photo by Alex Kratz)
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Kingsbridge Rd. Doc Slain
Norwood News just got a call from someone who alerted us to the murder of a Westchester doctor who owned a medical clinic on Kingsbridge Road.
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