Bronx SAFE Disposal Event is Saturday, May 5; Provides Residents Easy Option for Disposal of Potentially Harmful Household Items  Event will be in the Orchard Beach Parking Lot  City residents wanting to dispose of potentially harmful household materials may do […]

Frequency Definition: (noun) The number of occurrences within a given time period. Synonyms: Oftenness Usage: The frequency of his seizures increased as he grew older.

Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918) Representing her native Netherlands, Blankers-Koen made her Olympic debut at the 1936 Berlin Games but failed to medal. Two years later, she set her first world record in track and field. Unfortunately for her, both the 1940 […]

Unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime. Still, from an artificial civilization have originated wants, vices, and false tastes, which occasionally become so powerful as to […]

Chairman Crowley Statement on Secretary Carson’s Proposed Rent Hikes on Millions of Americans (Washington, D.C.) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx) issued the following statement after U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson announced a […]

Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287) Mortimer was imprisoned in 1322 for opposing King Edward II, but he escaped to France. When Edward II’s queen, Isabella, came to France in 1325, Mortimer became her lover. Together they invaded England […]

Acknowledgement of one another’s faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

High-toned Definition: (adjective) Pretentiously elegant. Synonyms: High-class Usage: She felt awkward and out of place in the high-toned restaurant, with its elegant décor and elite clientele.

Anthony Trollope (1815) One of the great English novelists, Trollope spent seven unhappy years in London as a postal clerk before transferring to Ireland in 1841. Soon after, while still working for the postal service, he began writing. Working mainly […]