UPDATE Out & About: Movie Nights, Summer Reading Program, Allerton Coop Exhibit & More!

Out & About: Movie Nights, Summer Reading Program, Allerton Coop Exhibit & More!

B.R.A.G. Summer BBQs Serve Hope One Burger at a Time

By DAVID GREENE

A series of summer community barbecues are, once again, being held across the borough to the delight of hundreds of community residents, and the only beef is on the grill!

Fordham Manor: Two Sought following Non-Fatal Shooting of 20-Year-Old Man

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance identifying the two people sought in connection with a non-fatal shooting that occurred in Fordham Manor.

“Hiring Halls” Continue as Bronx Unemployment Rises

By MIRIAM QUIÑONES & SÍLE MOLONEY

About five hundred applicants showed up for another “Hiring Hall” job fair in The Bronx on Wednesday, June 21, this time at Lehman College in Bedford Park. Hosted, once again, by the NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), the event is part of a series of city government job fairs being held citywide in recent months.

Volunteers Clean VCP Pond as “Daylighting” of Tibbetts Brook Advances

By JOSÉ A. GIRALT

For most of the year, visitors to Van Cortlandt Park’s Hester & Piero’s Mill Pond are usually entertained by throngs of duck and geese flying and landing on the water. However, when the weather gets warm, an unwelcome, invasive guest makes an appearance, hindering the fowls’ routine of take-off and landing. That invader goes by the name “water chestnut.”

UPDATE Friends Honor Man Who Died after Being Held in Police Custody

By DAVID GREENE

More than two dozen friends of Justin “Gusto” Gidora, 36, gathered at Indian Field in Van Cortlandt Park just after sunset on Saturday, July 22, to remember a good-natured and apparently troubled, young man who died under mysterious circumstances after being held in police custody, as previously reported.

2nd Food & Farm Walking Tour Takes in Bedford Park & Norwood

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The 2nd Bronx Food & Farm Walking Tour of 2023 around the historic Bedford Park and Norwood neighborhoods took place on Saturday, July 22, in conjunction with New York Botanical Garden/Bronx Green-Up, Montefiore Einstein, Friends of Mosholu Parkland, The James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center, and B Blossom Catering, a plant-based gourmet food company.

Inquiring Photographer: Thoughts on Expansion of Bulletproof Vest Program to all School Safety Agents

By DAVID GREENE

This week, we asked readers their thoughts on the pilot program now expanding to all public schools whereby bulletproof vests are being provided to all school safety agents.

Food Program ‘Prescribing’ Fresh Produce Launches in The Bronx

By ARIEL PACHECO

Healthcare professionals will now get the opportunity to prescribe healthy fresh foods to select families in The Bronx through a new pilot program. Retail chain, Stop & Shop, The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM), About Fresh nonprofit, and Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson announced the launch of a new program on July 12.