Archive for January, 2020

What’s New At Metro: Looking Forward With 2020 Vision

What’s New At Metro: Looking Forward With 2020 Vision

The ball has dropped, the confetti has settled, but our Vision For 2020 is full speed ahead: to continue building upon the legacy of our founder, who opened the original Metro Optics in 1978 (still thriving in Parkchester!) to serve a growing Bronx with personalized, […]

by · January 23, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Whose Birthday Is It? January 23, 2020

Whose Birthday Is It? January 23, 2020

Ernie Kovacs (1919) Kovacs was an American comedian. He turned to television after studying acting and writing, and he did much of the performing, writing, and producing for his three series—Time for Ernie, The Ernie Kovacs Show, and Kovacs Unlimited. He utilized the television format imaginatively, employing sight gags and zany improvisations, and showed off his wacky personality in 10 movies before dying prematurely in a car crash. Why did he once give a taxi driver the key to his apartment? More…

by · January 23, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: January 23, 2020

Quote of the Day: January 23, 2020

Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

by · January 23, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Word of the Day: January 23, 2020

Word of the Day: January 23, 2020

enlace  Definition: (verb) Spin, wind, or twist together. Synonyms: intertwine Usage: Thanks to her naval training, Megan was able to enlace the threads and form a complicated knot, securing the lumber safely to the roof of my truck. Discuss. 

by · January 23, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Derek Jeter: “I’m Most Proud Of Being A New York Yankee”

Derek Jeter: “I’m Most Proud Of Being A New York Yankee”

By Rich Mancuso/ Sports Editor “I’m most proud of being a New York Yankee,” the words from Derek Jeter Wednesday afternoon.  He addresed the last question at a press conference in New York City as the newest National Baseball Hall […]

by · January 22, 2020 · Sports
The Life Up Guns Down Team , not necessary in order - Maria Lopez, Alexis Harris Lopez, Kabreyia Lee Torres, Kenneth Lee Torres, Shadell Jones, Ericka Lee, Victoria Scott, and Carlos Torres.

Martin Luther King Celebration at North Central Bronx Hospital

In the morning Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.gave the opening remarks at the Annual Trinity Baptist Church in Wakefield. BP Diaz Jr. acknowledged  the throng of elected or party officials in the audience, while calling up a select few […]

by · January 22, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Whose Birthday Is It? January 22, 2020

Whose Birthday Is It? January 22, 2020

Johan August Strindberg (1849) Strindberg was a master of the Swedish language and an innovator of dramatic and literary styles. He achieved renown with the novel The Red Room, in which he satirized hypocrisy in Swedish life. It helped initiate Swedish realism and revealed his remarkable style, which he developed in an impressive assortment of novels, plays, stories, histories, and poems. Which of Strindberg’s plays, now considered the first modern Swedish drama, was originally rejected by the national theater? More…

by · January 22, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: January 22, 2020

Quote of the Day: January 22, 2020

Few are the hearts whose happy lot it is at once to recognize in each other’s voices the partner intended for them by Providence. Edwin Abbott (1838-1926) 

by · January 22, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Word of the Day: January 22, 2020

Word of the Day: January 22, 2020

dupery  Definition: (noun) Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage. Synonyms: hoax, put-on, humbug, fraudulence Usage: Even the most intelligent among us may be tempted by the dupery of Internet con artists if we are not careful. Discuss.

by · January 22, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Whose Birthday Is It? January 21, 2020

Whose Birthday Is It? January 21, 2020

John Bodkin Adams (1899) Adams was an Irish-born British physician suspected of having been a serial killer. Between 1946 and 1956, more than 160 of his patients, many of them elderly, died under suspicious circumstances—most leaving him money or items in their wills. He was tried for the murder of one patient but was acquitted. He was later convicted of other crimes, but never murder. A 2000 article in the British Medical Journal suggests that Adams may have been the role model for what other serial-killer doctor? More…Discuss

by · January 21, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: January 21, 2020

Quote of the Day: January 21, 2020

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

by · January 21, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Derek Jeter Should Be First Ballot and Unanimous Hall Of Famer

Derek Jeter Should Be First Ballot and Unanimous Hall Of Famer

By Rich Mancuso/Sports Editor The Yankees retired his Number 2. Derek Jeter was the longtime face of the franchise and part of that “Core Four” and four straight World Series championships under manager Joe Torre. Though the persona and character […]

by · January 21, 2020 · Sports
Word of the Day: January 21, 2020

Word of the Day: January 21, 2020

embonpoint Definition: (noun) The bodily property of being well rounded. Synonyms: plumpness, roundness Usage: He had the lavish embonpoint of a pig. Discuss.

by · January 21, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Ms. Effie Ardizzone Bronx Borough Cordinator for the NYCEPA.

Pelham Parkway Neighborhood Association Meeting

The first meeting of the new year for the Pelham Parkway Neighborhood Association took place on Tuesday January 14th. The guest speakers were Mr. Sam A. Forson of the U.S. Census Bureau , Ms. Effie Ardizzone New York City Environmental […]

by · January 20, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Whose Birthday Is It? January 20, 2020

Whose Birthday Is It? January 20, 2020

Federico Fellini (1920) After collaborating on screenplays with Roberto Rossellini in the 1940s, Italian Federico Fellini turned from writing to directing films. His movies earned international acclaim, and a number of them won Academy Awards, including La Strada, 8 ½, and Amarcord. Filmed in color starting in 1965, his movies became a celebration of life, with its beauties and grotesqueries, as well as an exploration of Fellini’s dream life. His wife starred in several of his films. Who was she? More…

by · January 20, 2020 · Bulletin Board