Archive for August, 2014

Second Circuit Decision Rejects Picard Suit And Allows A.G. Schneiderman To Distribute $410 Million Fund To Madoff Victims

Second Circuit Decision Rejects Picard Suit And Allows A.G. Schneiderman To Distribute $410 Million Fund To Madoff Victims

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Attorney General Schneiderman’s 2012 settlement with J. Ezra Merkin, who invested over $2 billion with Bernard M. Madoff on behalf of hundreds of investors, may proceed. The decision affirms a 2013 […]

by · August 9, 2014 · Domestic News
Prominent East Bronx Law Firm Hosts Its Grand Re-Opening At Hutch Metro Thursday

Prominent East Bronx Law Firm Hosts Its Grand Re-Opening At Hutch Metro Thursday

Over 150 people were on-hand to celebrate Pena & Kahn’s Grand Re-Opening on Thursday at 1250 Waters Place, Suite 901.   Pena & Kahn have been serving a Bronx clientele for over 25 years and have risen to one of the more prominent firms, […]

by · August 9, 2014 · Local News
Bronx Chronicle Photo of the Day: August 9, 2014

Bronx Chronicle Photo of the Day: August 9, 2014

Photo by Annie Boller

by · August 9, 2014 · Photos
Bronx’s Vet Talk Show with Sgt. Gonzalo Duran

Bronx’s Vet Talk Show with Sgt. Gonzalo Duran

Featuring an interview with Sgt. Christian Nunez. Presented by the Albanian American Vision. The show tapes live in Belmont.    

by · August 8, 2014 · Local News
Heroin and Opioid Overdose Prevention Training Sessions

Heroin and Opioid Overdose Prevention Training Sessions

12 New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) Addiction Treatment Centers (ATCs) in communities across the State will offer training sessions on opioid overdose prevention. The Bronx site is the Bronx Psych campus. Participants will learn […]

by · August 8, 2014 · Domestic News, Local News
Congressman Crowley Urges Continued National Focus on Preventing and Treating Sepsis

Congressman Crowley Urges Continued National Focus on Preventing and Treating Sepsis

Today, Congressman Joe Crowley (D-Queens, East Bronx), applauded the announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that the agency will include a sepsis reduction measure as part of its final rule concerning Medicare payments for 2015, and called for […]

by · August 8, 2014 · Domestic News
Pollen, Ticks, and Unicorns? : Fordham Undergrad Research Findings

Pollen, Ticks, and Unicorns? : Fordham Undergrad Research Findings

    Steven Franks presented the keynote, “Evolving in a climate of change” at the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. Photo by Joanna Mercuri/Fordham University Climate change is considered a pressing problem among the scientific community. Unfortunately, the general public does […]

by · August 8, 2014 · Local News
Jazz Age Cocktails At The Botanical Gardens

Jazz Age Cocktails At The Botanical Gardens

  Thursday, August 21; 6–9 p.m. dance lesson 6:30–7:15 p.m., music performance from 7:30–8:30 p.m. Enjoy the Groundbreakers exhibition, a Garden-wide celebration of early 20th-century America’s most influential women in landscape architecture and design as well as garden photography. while sipping a complimentary specialty cocktail. […]

by · August 8, 2014 · Local News
Korean National Engagement 8/27/14

Korean National Engagement 8/27/14

by · August 8, 2014 · Bulletin Board
Movies Under the Stars – Bronx Park East

Movies Under the Stars – Bronx Park East

by · August 8, 2014 · Bulletin Board
Bronx Chronicle Photo of the Day: August 8, 2014

Bronx Chronicle Photo of the Day: August 8, 2014

Photo by Annie Boller

by · August 8, 2014 · Photos
Catholic NY Profiles Longtime Bronx Pastor John Jenick

Catholic NY Profiles Longtime Bronx Pastor John Jenick

The Bedford Fordham Housing Corporation, a nonprofit organization to help low-income residents find decent, safe and affordable housing and to stave off housing abandonment, was established by local community activitists, one of which being its first President, the inimitable Father John […]

by · August 7, 2014 · Local News

Several Throgs Neck Bridge Lanes Closed This Weekend

The third weekend of binder and asphalt overlay replacement work at the Throgs Neck Bridge will result in two lanes closed during overnight hours and one lane closed this weekend Aug. 8-11. Motorists should expect delays and use the Bronx-Whitestone […]

by · August 7, 2014 · Bulletin Board
Toy Van – Low Cost Spay/Neuter Services

Toy Van – Low Cost Spay/Neuter Services

by · August 7, 2014 · Animal Issues, Bulletin Board
Free English Classes at the Library – Fall 2014

Free English Classes at the Library – Fall 2014

by · August 7, 2014 · Bulletin Board