Creston Pharmacy Plays Santa in Bedford Park

By DAVID GREENE

The owners and staff of Creston Pharmacy in Bedford Park spent one of the days leading up to Christmas donating their time, wrapping hundreds of free gifts, and handing them out to the neighborhood’s children.

Bainbridge Bakery Reopens after Devastating Fire

By DAVID GREENE

Three months after a devastating fire ripped through Norwood’s Bainbridge Avenue last October destroying a row of local stores, employees at the popular Bainbridge Bakery are back behind the counter and, once again, providing the community with their baked treats, the owners having opened a new store across the street from the original location.

UPDATE Former B.R.A.G. Cure Violence Interrupter Michael Rodriguez Sentenced to 10 Years

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Michael Rodriguez, 49, of local cure violence group, Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence (B.R.A.G.), and a resident of Yonkers, has been sentenced in relation to drug related charges in Orange County. The sentencing was announced by Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler on Thursday, Jan. 4.

MPC Aims to See Small Businesses Thrive “Beyond Survival”

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Around 130 people gathered at the New York Botanical Garden on Wednesday, Dec. 6, for a small business celebratory event hosted by Mosholu Preservation Corporation (MPC) called “Beyond Survival.”

Kingsbridge Heights Small Business Owners Being Pushed Out

By SÍLE MOLONEY

With a Jan. 18 deadline fast approaching for receipt of applications by the City of New York to a Request for Proposal (RFP) to redevelop the Kingsbridge Armory in Kingsbridge Heights, supporters of 12 local small businesses located along nearby Jerome Avenue and East Kingsbridge Road held a rally on Thursday, Dec. 7, calling on the merchants’ landlord to renew the merchants’ leases, rather than sell to the soon-to-be selected developer or associate partner.

Op-Ed: Kingsbridge Armory Plan Must Adhere to Community’s Vision

By THORNE NUGENT

Four generations of my family were born in The Bronx. The Kingsbridge Armory on Kingsbridge Road by Jerome Avenue has been a vacant space for all of my existence and now I’m working alongside many others to change that, to make that 500,000-square-foot landmark serve the community and the entire Bronx.

UPDATE Hero Kids Help Family Members Escape House Fire, One Holding One-Year-Old Baby

By SÍLE MOLONEY

A 12-year-old boy, Steven, saved his one-year-old baby sibling from a burning home that raged for over an hour on Nov. 20 in Bedford Park, aided by his 15-year-old best friend, Joshua, who lives next door, while firefighters responded to the blaze, the second of two residential fires, one fatal, to occur the same evening within the boundaries of Bronx Community District 7.

Claudia Goldin, Bronx H.S. of Science Alum, Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The Bronx High School of Science has congratulated the school’s Hall of Famer Claudia Goldin, Class of 1963, on winning the Nobel Prize in Economics. Described by the school as a trailblazer throughout her career, Goldin is currently the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University’s economics department, and was the first woman to be offered tenure in that department.

Bronx Woman Found Guilty of Laundering Over $2 Million from Victims in Romance Fraud Scheme

By SÍLE MOLONEY

A Bronx woman, Nadine Jazimne Wade, 30, was found guilty by a jury on four charges relating to money laundering and bank fraud linked to a romance fraud scheme federal prosecutors said on Thursday, Dec. 14. Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said Wade was found guilty following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla.