Articles by: The Bronx Chronicle

Profile America: Boston Latin — The First Public School

Profile America: Boston Latin — The First Public School

Sunday, April 23 — America’s first — and oldest — school is celebrating its 382nd birthday today. The Boston Latin School started in 1635 with a handful of students meeting in the headmaster’s home. Stressing a classical education and the development […]

Whose Birthday Is It? April 22, 2017

Whose Birthday Is It? April 22, 2017

Peter Kenneth Frampton (1950) British rocker Peter Frampton performed with successful bands The Herd and Humble Pie before going solo in 1971. His breakthrough album, 1976’s Frampton Comes Alive!, remains one of the best-selling live albums of all time. It […]

by · April 22, 2017 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: April 22, 2017

Quote of the Day: April 22, 2017

My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

by · April 22, 2017 · Bulletin Board
Word of the Day: April 22, 2017

Word of the Day: April 22, 2017

Vestige Definition: (noun) A visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that once existed but exists or appears no more. Synonyms: Tincture, Trace, Shadow Usage: He was so deadly pale – which had not been the case when they went […]

by · April 22, 2017 · Bulletin Board
Public Forum in the Bronx: Citywide Call for Ideas for Civic Equality – April 25th

Public Forum in the Bronx: Citywide Call for Ideas for Civic Equality – April 25th

Design Trust for Public Space will launch an open call for project ideas—Public for All: Rethinking Shared Space in New York—at a public forum in the Bronx. Community activists , City leaders, and Design Trust Fellows and Partners from Bronx’s […]

BRONX DA: BRONX TEEN INDICTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER

BRONX DA: BRONX TEEN INDICTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER

by · April 22, 2017 · Bulletin Board, Crime
Profile America: First Health Insurance

Profile America: First Health Insurance

Friday, April 21 — Health insurance coverage has been a major topic of media and political interest for the past decade or so, but the concept goes back 170 years. The Massachusetts Health Insurance Company of Boston was organized on this […]

by · April 21, 2017 · Profile America
Foot Locker Celebrates Global Sneaker Culture

Foot Locker Celebrates Global Sneaker Culture

Foot Locker Jets Three Sneakerheads Around the World For ‘Pick Up Trips’ Foot Locker, a leading global specialty athletic retailer, is celebrating sneaker culture around the world this week by sending three lucky Foot Locker customers on intercontinental “Pick Up […]

Profile America: Credit Cards

Thursday, April 20 — To borrow from some recent advertising slogans, although many Americans couldn’t imagine leaving home without them, and they’re everywhere they want to be, there was a time when credit cards were rare. They were issued only by […]

by · April 20, 2017 · Profile America
Profile America: All News Radio

Profile America: All News Radio

Wednesday, April 19 — The first all-news radio format in the U.S. debuted on this date in 1965, as WINS-AM in New York City switched from rock and roll to rip and read. Almost 20 years earlier, the station had notched […]

by · April 19, 2017 · Profile America
Word of the Day: April 19, 2017

Word of the Day: April 19, 2017

Bonhomie Definition: (noun) A pleasant and affable disposition. Synonyms: Affability, Affableness, Amiableness, Geniality, Amiability Usage: The good humor and bonhomie called up by this last evening had disappeared.

by · April 19, 2017 · Bulletin Board
Whose Birthday Is It? April 19, 2017

Whose Birthday Is It? April 19, 2017

Eliot Ness (1903) Ness was 26 years old when he was hired as a special agent of the US Department of Justice to head its Chicago Prohibition bureau, with the express purpose of breaking up the bootlegging network of Al […]

by · April 19, 2017 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: April 19, 2017

Quote of the Day: April 19, 2017

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. Homer (900 BC – 800 BC)

by · April 19, 2017 · Bulletin Board
Raise The Age NY
July 11, 2013 - At Manhattan Municipal Building.

Independent Democratic Conference & Advocates to City: Clock is ticking to take our kids off Rikers Island

Independent Democratic Conference & Advocates to City: Clock is ticking to take our kids off Rikers Island IDC celebrates passage of Raise the Age and urges City to plan quickly New York, NY — Senators Jeff Klein (D-Bronx/Westchester), Jesse Hamilton […]

by · April 19, 2017 · Bulletin Board, Law
Bronx Distirct Attorney Darcel D. Clark

BRONX DA ANNOUNCES SHE WILL MOVE TO VACATE MURDER CONVICTION OF STEVEN ODIASE