Articles by: Adam Bermudez

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
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
King Spreads Good Cheer

King Spreads Good Cheer

On Wednesday, seven Northeast Bronx organizations received personal monetary donations from Council Member King and his wife, Neva Shillingford-King, an executive vice president at 1199 SEIU, as part of District 12 Community Award Day. “Every year, people come to my office to ask […]

by · August 7, 2014 · Local News
MANHATTAN COLLEGE RECEIVES SECOND NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRANT

MANHATTAN COLLEGE RECEIVES SECOND NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRANT

–College obtains funding to support and promote engineering education for middle and high school teachers– For the second time this summer, Manhattan College has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research. The NSF awarded the […]

by · August 7, 2014 · Local News
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Eros & Psyche At The Bronx Library Center Saturday

Eros & Psyche by Donna Spector,a new comedy, will be presented Saturday afternoon at the Bronx Library Center at 2:30 p.m  (Map and directions) The music is composed by James Barry, featuring Soaring from the Denishawn Bronx Library Center. Image via Facebookrepertoire.  Performed by the Xoregos […]

by · August 7, 2014 · Local News
NYS Receives $1.7 Million In Settlement With Pfizer Ending Illegal Promotion of “Rapamune”

NYS Receives $1.7 Million In Settlement With Pfizer Ending Illegal Promotion of “Rapamune”

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that he, along with 40 other state Attorneys General and the District of Columbia, reached a $35 million settlement with Pfizer arising from alleged improper marketing and promotion of the immunosuppressive drug Rapamune. […]

by · August 7, 2014 · Domestic News, Local News
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DOI Issues Preliminary Report on Delays & Cost Overruns of ECTP

Mark Peters, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation (“DOI”), has issued preliminary findings and recommendations on DOI’s investigation into delays and cost overruns of the Emergency Communications Transformation Program (ECTP), which have been provided to the Mayor […]

by · August 7, 2014 · Local News
Extensive Renovations Set for NYPL Woodstock Branch

Extensive Renovations Set for NYPL Woodstock Branch

The New York Public Library’s Woodstock branch is set to undergo a $10 million improvement project that will double programming space, increase the number of computers, expand the children’s area, and create a new young adult reading room. The interior […]

by · August 6, 2014 · Local News
NBA’s Spurs Make History Hiring First Female Assistant Coach

NBA’s Spurs Make History Hiring First Female Assistant Coach

On Tuesday, the San Antonio Spurs announced that Becky Hammon, currently in her 16th WNBA season, has been hired as an assistant coach. Per club policy terms of the contract were not announced.  She will make history as the first […]

by · August 6, 2014 · Domestic News, Sports
Crowley, Rangel Cheer Final Decision in Protecting Calvary Hospital from Harmful Medicare Payment Model

Crowley, Rangel Cheer Final Decision in Protecting Calvary Hospital from Harmful Medicare Payment Model

On Tuesday, Congressmen  Joe Crowley (East Bronx, Queens) announced the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) agreed to correct the payment method for Calvary Hospital ensuring the hospital will be fairly reimbursed for the services it provides. “This payment change will make […]

by · August 6, 2014 · Local News
STATEMENTS FROM BRONX COUNCIL MEMBERS KING AND GIBSON On Eric Garner’s Homicide

STATEMENTS FROM BRONX COUNCIL MEMBERS KING AND GIBSON On Eric Garner’s Homicide

“The NYPD police unions and their representatives have responded today with regard to the tragic death of Eric Garner. Their statements are totally over the line but not surprising. The OCME report indicated that Eric’s death was a result of […]

by · August 5, 2014 · Local News