This week enjoy exclusive after-hours experience in the gardens! Join us under the summer evening sky for a guided mediation with Sara Hart of iHart Lens. Then learn about the bats that live and migrate through the Bronx. You’ll be […]

Vaccine for All: Senior Centers Host Mobile Vaccine Vans to Reach Unvaccinated Older Adults   The deployment of mobile COVID-19 vaccine vans to senior centers is part of the City’s ongoing effort to reach the quarter of older New Yorkers […]

Henryk Goldszmit, AKA Janusz Korczak (1878) Goldszmit was a Jewish doctor and author of children’s literature who wrote under the pen name Janusz Korczak. In 1912, he established an orphanage in Warsaw. When World War II broke out, he refused to flee the Nazis and continued to care for the children even after his orphanage was forced to move into the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. In August 1942, Nazi soldiers came with orders to take all the children and workers in the orphanage to the Treblinka concentration camp. What happened to Korczak? More…

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

abysmal Definition: (adjective) Extremely or hopelessly bad or severe. Synonyms: dreadful, terrible, awful, appalling, dismal, dire, ghastly, hideous, atrocious, godawful Usage: We have been having abysmal weather lately, but the Sun is finally expected to make an appearance next week! Discuss.

Stand Up Against Gun Violence Rally at Bronx Borough Hall By Robert Press Monday’s rally against Gun Violence at the Bronx Courthouse drew over one hundred people, including presumed Bronx Borough President, Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, State Senator Luis Sepulveda, Councilman […]

Legislative Updates, New Grants, Events and Much More Please click View/Allow Images so you don’t miss a thing! Upcoming Events NYC SBRN + 5 Chamber of Commerce: Amazon Black Business Accelerator Webinar Amazon’s Black Business Accelerator is dedicated to helping […]

The “Berlin wall” built to start construction of yet another homeless shelter obstructs traffic on Watson Avenue & Thieriot Avenue and has created a mugging zone for thugs! Come see for yourself! Content/media by Franck Strongbow

To The Editor: Would someone with a high position in the national Democratic Party or the national news media PLEASE inform people such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders that they are hurting MY Democratic Party by calling themselves “Democratic […]

Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856) Bethune was the first professional woman architect in the US and the first woman elected to the American Institute of Architects. After high school, she became an apprentice at a Buffalo, New York, architectural firm where she met her future husband, architect Robert Bethune. They married in 1881 and opened their own firm, which designed several hundred buildings throughout New York in the Romanesque revival style popular in the late 19th century. What building is considered her masterpiece? More…

You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

traipse Definition: (verb) Walk or tramp about. Synonyms: shlep Usage: I spent the holiday exploring the countryside, traipsing from town to town with just a knapsack of supplies on my back. Discuss.

BRONX DISTRICT ATTORNEY DARCEL D. CLARK ANNOUNCES LOCATIONS OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIGHTS PROGRAM IN THE BRONX   Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced the expansion of the Saturday Night Lights program with 23 additional sites in the Bronx, joining […]

Cases of Interest for the Week of July 19, 2021 *Appearances/Proceedings May Be Virtual*   Monday, July 19, 2021 NO CASES OF INTEREST Check website for updates.   Tuesday, July 20, 2021 ADA Judge Part # Status Defendant Name Case Details […]

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Unveils Green New Deal for Public Schools Totaling $1.43 Trillion Dollars By Robert Press   With Mayor Bill de Blasio, Public schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter, State Senator Jamaal Bailey, Councilman Kevin Riley, school staff, parents, and […]