SBHS Festival Youth Choir at The Vatican
(courtesy of Saint Barnabas High School)

Saint Barnabas High School Students Return from Vatican – Mass with Pope Francis

Saint Barnabas High School students are back from their performance at the Vatican in Rome. Bronx, NY — After a seven day whirlwind adventure, Saint Barnabas High School students have returned from their invitation to sing at a special Vatican […]

Profile America: First Home Television Sets

Profile America: First Home Television Sets

FIRST HOME TV “SETS” Profile America — Couch potatoes can trace their roots to this date in 1928 when three experimental television sets were installed in private homes in Schenectady, New York. Not that there was much to see, the […]

Nine Candidates Register For City Matching Funds Program

Nine Candidates Register For City Matching Funds Program

On Monday, George Alvarez, Carlton A. Curry, Helen Foreman-Hines, Marlon Molina, Joann Otero, Julio Pabon, J. Loren Russell, Rafael Salamanca Jr., and Amanda Septimo joined the NYC Campaign Board (CFB) matching funds program for the special election in Bronx Council District 17. […]

President Barack Obama

In Final State of the Union, President Obama Supports Economic Priorities

WASHINGTON — As part of President Obama’s final State of the Union address. SBA entrepreneurs Ronna Rice, CEO of Rice’s Lucky Clover Honey, Abdirahman Kahin, owner of Afro Deli, and Mark Davis of WDC Solar attended the speech. “Under President Obama, our […]

by · January 13, 2016 · Government, Labor
Rock & Roll is Here to Stay – Drifters, Platters, Chiffons

Rock & Roll is Here to Stay – Drifters, Platters, Chiffons

Due to the impending snow storm this concert has been moved to Saturday, January 30th @ 8pm LEHMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS presents The Third Annual Best of DOO WOP! ROCK & ROLL IS HERE TO STAY! Featuring Charlie Thomas’ Drifters, The Platters, […]

by · January 12, 2016 · Bulletin Board
Substance Abuse Forum 1/14/16

Substance Abuse Forum 1/14/16

by · January 12, 2016 · Bulletin Board

NYC Department of Transportation Approves Pair of Dinowitz Requested Traffic Safety Measures in North Riverdale

    Following a request by Assemblyman Dinowitz, the DOT has agreed to install two speed humps in North Riverdale; the first on Liebig Avenue between West 263rd and West 259th Streets, the second on West 263rd Street between Riverdale […]

by · January 12, 2016 · Bulletin Board
Assemblywoman Joyner’s Upcoming Workforce Development Workshops

Assemblywoman Joyner’s Upcoming Workforce Development Workshops

by · January 12, 2016 · Bulletin Board
Take Care New York 2020

Take Care New York 2020

by · January 12, 2016 · Bulletin Board
Bronx Chronicle Word of the Day: January 12, 2015

Bronx Chronicle Word of the Day: January 12, 2015

hostelry Definition: (noun) A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers. Synonyms: auberge, inn, lodge Usage: Three large rooms were assigned to them in the monastery hostelry.

by · January 12, 2016 · Bulletin Board
Bronx Chronicle Quote of the Day: January 12, 2015

Bronx Chronicle Quote of the Day: January 12, 2015

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death!…Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

by · January 12, 2016 · Bulletin Board
(c/o Associated Press)

Health Groups Urge Gov. Christie to Sign Bill Raising Tobacco Sales Age to 21

Raising The Age Will Protect Kids and Save Lives WASHINGTON, DC — The following is a Statement of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association Founders Affiliate, American Lung Association in New Jersey and Global Advisors on Smokefree […]

NYS Office of the Governor

Cuomo To Lift Number of MWBE Contracts To 30%

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today unveiled another proposal ahead of his 2016 agenda. This time he vowed to increase opportunity for minority- and women-owned business enterprises across New York State. In 2014, Governor Cuomo established a goal of 30 percent for […]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Powers Into The Chinese Box Office With $8.1 Million Opening Weekend

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Powers Into The Chinese Box Office With $8.1 Million Opening Weekend

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, released by The Walt Disney Studios, blasted into the Chinese market with a two-day opening gross of $8.1 million from 270 IMAX®theaters, making it the highest IMAX two-day opening weekend of all time in China, […]

by · January 12, 2016 · Entertainment

U.S. News & World Report Ranks 2016 Best Online Programs

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2016  — U.S. News & World Report today released the 2016 Best Online Programs to help the millions of domestic and international students interested in online education compare the academic quality of more than 1,200 U.S.-based distance degree […]

by · January 12, 2016 · Technology