MAYOR’S OFFICE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS AND THE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER ANNOUNCE KICKOFF OF CLAREMONT PUBLIC ART SERIES TO ENHANCE SAFETY AND COMMUNITY CONNECTION Innovative approach to creating public safety through community-created public art […]
BPMM Adventures Camp July 16 – July 20 – 9:00 am – 2:00 pm Children ages 6 through 12 are invited to spend a week at Bartow-Pell from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. having fun and learning about gardening, sustainability, […]
BP DIAZ HOSTS 8TH ANNUAL LGBTQ & ALLIES PRIDE AWARDS On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. hosted his office’s 8th annual LGBTQ & Allies Pride Awards Ceremony at Billy’s Sports Bar in the South Bronx. […]
New York Launches First Health Benefits Plan for App-Based and Other For-Hire Drivers New York’s Black Car Fund launches vision and telemedical benefits for drivers New York, NY– The Black Car Fund, the nation’s first fully self-funded, self-insured and self-administered non-profit […]
Justice makes room for forgiveness; revenge does not.
STATEMENT FROM STATE SENATOR GUSTAVO RIVERA ON SUPREME COURT DECISION UPHOLDING TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S TRAVEL BAN “I am profoundly appalled and disgusted, but not surprised, by today’s Supreme Court 5-4 ruling to uphold the Trump administration’s restriction on travel to the […]
Chairman Crowley and Reps. Larson, Davis, Cummings, Beyer, and Moore Call on President Trump to Stop Closing Social Security Field Offices (Washington, D.C.) – Today, House Democratic Caucus Chair Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx) and Reps. John Larson (D-CT), Danny […]
STATEMENT FROM BOROUGH PRESIDENT DIAZ RE: Supreme Court’s Decision in Janus v. AFSCME “Today’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME is a despicable and misguided attack on workers’ rights and labor unions enabled by President Trump’s stolen Supreme Court seat. I stand with labor, […]
No Garbage, Recycling or Organic Collection, or Street Cleaning on Independence Day, Wednesday, July 4, 2018 The New York City Department of Sanitation announced that in observance of Independence Day, there will be no trash, recycling, or organics collection, nor […]
America’s first public phone booth was installed this month in 1880 in New Haven, Connecticut, just four years after the telephone was invented. These first public telephones were supervised by attendants, while those operated by coins came along nine years […]
By Rich Mancuso/ Sports Editor Brian Cashman the NY Yankees General Manager is a part of New York sports history and he should be with his success and longtime tenure of building championships in the Bronx. He, along with New […]
Bronxites United Against Current Border Policy by David Greene Local elected officials joined clergy leaders standing together outside of the Bronx Supreme Court, demanding that all 2,300 children who were separated from family members at the border– be reunited. The […]
Sweden, long associated with nonalignment in the Cold War, a peaceful foreign policy, and an armed forces that had come rather close to being barely existent, is taking a dramatic turn. Faced with Vladimir Putin’s expansionist goals, aggressive actions, and […]
Friday, June 29th. On this date in 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower signed a bill establishing the Interstate Highway System, originally of 41,000 miles. Today, it’s nearly 47,000 miles, the world’s longest single system. The original estimated cost of the interstate […]
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