Archive for December, 2019

Bronx DA: Four Defendants Sentenced to Prison for First-Degree Gang Assault

Bronx DA: Four Defendants Sentenced to Prison for First-Degree Gang Assault

FOUR DEFENDANTS SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR FIRST-DEGREE GANG ASSAULT Defendants Beat Man Outside Bronx Restaurant, Left Him Brain Dead Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that three men and one woman have been sentenced to prison for beating a man outside a restaurant in Kingsbridge in 2016. The attack left […]

Bronx DA: Bronx Man Sentenced to Prison for Stabbing Elderly Woman to Death and for Assaulting NYPD Cop

Bronx DA: Bronx Man Sentenced to Prison for Stabbing Elderly Woman to Death and for Assaulting NYPD Cop

BRONX MAN SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR STABBING ELDERLY WOMAN TO DEATH AND FOR ASSAULTING NYPD COP Jury Found Defendant Guilty of Manslaughter and Other Charges Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for Manslaughter in the […]

VNNA  TREE LIGHTING 12/15/19

VNNA TREE LIGHTING 12/15/19

by · December 4, 2019 · Bulletin Board
VNNA CHRISTMAS PARTY 12/9/19

VNNA CHRISTMAS PARTY 12/9/19

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Whose Birthday Is It? December 4, 2019

Whose Birthday Is It? December 4, 2019

Samuel Butler (1835) Butler was a British novelist and critic. Descended from clergymen, he grappled for years with Christianity and evolution in his writings, first embracing, then rejecting, Charles Darwin’s theories. He is best known for his autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. During his lifetime, his reputation rested on the utopian satire Erewhon (1872), which foreshadowed the end of the Victorian illusion of eternal progress. What prediction did Butler make about human evolution? More…

by · December 4, 2019 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: December 4, 2019

Quote of the Day: December 4, 2019

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)

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Word of the Day: December 4, 2019

Word of the Day: December 4, 2019

lettered  Definition: (adjective) Highly educated; having extensive information or understanding. Synonyms: knowledgeable, well-read, learned Usage: They are few in number, but it is a choice audience, a lettered audience. Discuss.

by · December 4, 2019 · Bulletin Board
Be A Census Taker

Be A Census Taker

by · December 2, 2019 · Bulletin Board, Jobs
Bronx DA: Bronx Man Sentenced to Six to 12 Years in Prison for Scamming Undocumented Immigrant Couple out of $106,000

Bronx DA: Bronx Man Sentenced to Six to 12 Years in Prison for Scamming Undocumented Immigrant Couple out of $106,000

BRONX MAN SENTENCED TO SIX TO 12 YEARS IN PRISON FOR SCAMMING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT COUPLE OUT OF $106,000  Defendant Posed as Attorney, Taking Money to Get Citizenship Papers; Threatened Victims with Deportation          Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a man has been sentenced to six to 12 years […]

Bronx DA: Cases of Interest for the Week of December 2, 2019

Bronx DA: Cases of Interest for the Week of December 2, 2019

Cases of Interest for the Week of December 2, 2019 Monday, December 2, 2019 ADAJudgePart #Status Defendant Name Case Details Miras, J.Neary70Sentencing Joel HernandezJenny GutierrezKendall GuilloryJariel Pichardo Defendants found guilty of first-degree Gang Assault on September 27, 2019. The defendants beat […]

Assemblywoman Reyes with students from the Equality Charter High School of Castle Hill gave out frozen turkeys and fixings to people who had registration slips with the assembly woman's office.

Parkchester Turkey Giveaway

It was a couple of days before Thanksgiving, and out and about throughout the Bronx elected officials were giving out frozen turkeys or vouchers to local supermarkets for a free turkey for Thanksgiving. The Bronx Borough President’s office handed frozen […]

by · December 2, 2019 · Bulletin Board
Whose Birthday Is It? December 2, 2019

Whose Birthday Is It? December 2, 2019

Otto Dix (1891) A German painter and printmaker, Dix fought in World War I and returned haunted by what he had witnessed. After experimenting with Impressionism and Dada, he arrived at Expressionism and began producing works depicting nightmarish scenes of the horrors of war and the depravities of a decadent society. His antimilitary works aroused the wrath of the Nazi regime and he was dismissed from his academic posts in 1933. On what charges was he arrested in 1939? More…

by · December 2, 2019 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: December 2, 2019

Quote of the Day: December 2, 2019

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene. Jane Austen (1775-1817)

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Word of the Day: December 2, 2019

Word of the Day: December 2, 2019

censer  Definition: (noun) A container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual). Synonyms: thurible Usage: The organ was muttering, censers were swinging, candles were glinting on the distant altar, and robed priests were filing silently past them. Discuss.

by · December 2, 2019 · Bulletin Board
Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) representatives listen during the special meeting to consider the "Situation in Bolivia" at OAS headquarters in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Vernuccio’s View: Bolivians Reject Dictatorship

Bolivians have rejected attempts to destroy democracy and set their nation on a path towards dictatorship.  Clearly, they did not want to become another Venezuela. The situation, according to the U.S. State Department, unfolded over the course of several years. The […]

by · December 1, 2019 · Vernuccio's View