Update: District 15 City Council Race, Ischia Bravo & Elisa Crespo Garner Additional Endorsements

Community Board 7 Finds New District Manager...Again

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Yesterday, March 8, on International Women’s Day, State Sen. Gustavo Rivera, City Councilman Brad Lander, and The Jewish Vote (TJV) announced ranked choice endorsements of certain progressive women candidates ahead of the Bronx special elections on March 23 in District 15 and District 11. According to a joint press release, with early voting starting on Saturday, progressives are looking to support transformative candidates and send more women to represent them in the City Council. Rivera, who represents the 33rd senatorial district in the Bronx, and TJV, a project of Jews for racial and economic justice, announced on Monday a

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Congressman Adriano Espaillat, who represents New York’s 13th congressional district (NY-13), released a statement on Thursday, March 4, to encourage high school students throughout New York’s 13th congressional district to submit entries to this year’s Congressional Art Competition. The national contest is open to high school students from around the district to showcase their artistic talents and provides an opportunity for students to display their winning art in the United States Capitol for up to one year. Espaillat serves as a national co-host of this year’s art competition, which is open to high school students from around the nation. The

By SÍLE MOLONEY

To honor the thousands of beloved New Yorkers lost during the COVID-19 pandemic this year, the City of New York will host an official Day of Remembrance this Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 7:45 p.m. Readers are encouraged to join online to honor family, friends, frontline essential workers, and fellow New Yorkers. All New Yorkers are invited to tune in and share the name and photograph of a person they lost.The photograph may be featured as part of the City’s ceremony. The photo should be a clear image of the family’s loved one, and the photo specifications are as

By DAVID GREENE

Detectives in the 49th precinct are looking for two gunmen who entered an apartment and shot a man in Pelham Parkway before fleeing the area. The shooting is the latest in a string of violent incidents that have been reported recently in the area. On Monday, March 8, NYPD spokeswoman and detective, Annette Shelton, said the incident was reported at 11:36 a.m. on Thursday, March 4, inside an apartment building in the vicinity of Wallace Avenue and Pelham Parkway South in the 49th precinct. Shelton said, “A 32-year-old male victim reported to police that when he opened

By SÍLE MOLONEY

On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 9.56 a.m., police responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision on the northbound Major Deegan Expressway in the vicinity of the 233rd Street exit, in Woodlawn Heights, in the 50th precinct. Upon arrival, police observed a 58-year-old man with severe trauma to his head and torso. EMS also responded and transported the victim to Montefiore Medical Center North where he was pronounced deceased. Preliminary investigation determined that the victim was operating a 2007 Kawasaki motorcycle and was traveling northbound on the Major Deegan Expressway in the middle lane when

By DAVID GREENE

Police are looking for two individuals who posed as plumbers, and are now wanted in connection with a home invasion robbery and the overnight torture and assault of two residents in the Wakefield section of the borough. According to a February 25th statement from the NYPD, the incident began at 3 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 22, in the vicinity of East 227 Street and Barnes Avenue. Police said a 28-year-old man and a 35-year-old man were inside the home when two men knocked at the door, saying they were there to “fix the plumbing.” The NYPD statement read

By SÍLE MOLONEY

As the District 11 City Council special election, scheduled for March 23, draws closer, Mino Lora, an educator and executive director of the People’s Theatre Project, has picked up a series of additional endorsements. One of six remaining special election candidates running, Lora got the backing of two progressive women’s groups and a labor union on Thursday, March 4. The labor union, UNITE HERE Local 100, joined two local organizing groups, Downtown Women for Change and Progressive Women of New York in endorsing Lora on Thursday. UNITE HERE Local 100 is a union representing workers in cafeterias, airports, executive

By DAVID GREENE

Following the opening of the new COVID-19 vaccination site at Bronx High School of Science, located at 75 West 205th Street, in Jerome Park, a long line of people were seen all along Goulden Avenue for about a quarter of a mile, as they waited patiently to get vaccinated on Sunday, Feb. 26. As reported by Norwood News, on Sunday, March 2, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz announced on social media the same evening that the Walton High School Campus vaccination site, one of the local vaccination sites for Bronx Community Board 7 residents, had moved to the nearby Jerome Park site,

By SÍLE MOLONEY

A mass vaccination site opened on Thursday, March 4, at Bronx’s Co-Op City, the largest single residential development in the United States. The vaccination site is open to all eligible COVID-19 vaccination recipients, and reserved 200 vaccinations exclusively for residents on Thursday. The site will be open Monday to Saturday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The site, which is run by the New York City Department of Health, will administer approximately 500 vaccines each day to start, and eventually 1,000 shots per day when the program is fully ramped up, with continued vaccinations reserved for Co-Op City residents.