Police have arrested two men they say assaulted and robbed a 17-year-old from Bedford Park before throwing him into oncoming traffic, causing his death. The fatal push ranks as the seventh homicide within the 52nd Precinct, which had a 200 percent homicide increase this year. Police confirmed that the two suspects charged in the killing […]
Angel Espinal opened Confectionaires, a new bakery at 2961 Webster Ave. and Bedford Park Boulevard, on Aug. 11. For Espinal, the bakery — which serves up a wide-ranging menu of fresh baked pastries, cakes, breads and coffee — is a second career of sorts. After nine years in the personal training industry, Espinal found a […]
The Norwood News, in partnership with WFUV and BronxNet TV, continues its four-part series on development projects happening across the Bronx and their impact on community residents. Amid the rise of real estate interest in the South Bronx, new developers along the waterfront say they will deliver more housing, public parks and retail stores to […]
At Bedford Park Congregational Church, members maintain one foot in the past, and the other in the future. The past: A historic, 124-year-old rustic church at the intersection of East 201st Street and Bainbridge Avenue, whose architecture representing a bygone era earned a landmark designation by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2000. […]
By VIVIAN CARTER Rainy skies didn’t halt the free neighborhood concert planned for Williamsbridge Oval Park on August 11—the event just moved inside to the recreation center. New interpretations of favorite soul, R&B, and rock classics rewarded the scores of audience members who gathered to hear New York Skyscrapers and Friends, an accomplished American contemporary […]
The story of a community piano project in Williamsbridge Oval Park took so many twists and turns this past summer it felt like a roller coaster.
As the Norwood News reported two weeks ago, the pop-up piano provided by the nonprofit, Sing for Hope, in Williamsbridge Oval Park was reported stolen after consulting with local Parks Department staffers . But a few days later, detectives from the 52nd Precinct learned from witnesses in the park that that a Parks Department sanitation crew picked up the piano, thinking it was a discarded instrument.
In the end, it was all about community. The story line of the saga of the missing pop-up piano in Williamsbridge Oval Park shifted as the facts came out. But when every last note was played, the result was a civic ballad celebrating what makes a neighborhood a neighborhood.
A new public art project created to promote music in the five boroughs this summer is already off key in the Bronx.
Two of the four Bronx pianos in the new, "Play Me, I'm Yours," arts program - one at Fordham Plaza and another at Sackerah Woods Playground in Van Cortlandt Park - were seriously damaged by overzealous young Beethovens within the first week of the exhibit.
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