Business

Kingsbridge: Man Sought following Store Robbery

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYPD is asking for the public’s help identifying the person seen in the attached photo and video who they say is sought in connection to a robbery that occurred in Kingsbridge.

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.

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.