‘Have a Nice Day’: My Mugging Story

A few days before I got mugged in Williamsbridge Oval, I was thinking to myself about the surprising warmth and courtesy that I’d felt from Bronx residents in my first few weeks in the borough.

Community Policing

Police and community came together on the evening of Aug. 2 in Williamsbridge Oval Park.

Creston Ave. Crew Busted in Drug Raid

Culminating a year-long investigation by the FBI and NYPD with an early morning raid on the so-called “Creston Avenue Crew,” police arrested eight people in the Bronx and three in Puerto Rico.

Two Wounded in Bedford Park Shooting

A wild early morning shootout on Tuesday in Bedford Park sent two victims to the hospital, police and witnesses said.

Missing Piano Helps Nabe Find Its Voice

By JORDAN MOSS

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.

HS Football Star Dies After Parking Lot Brawl

A bizarre and tragic confrontation in a Bedford Park parking lot left a star high school football player stabbed to death and his father charged with assault.

Rally Kicks Off Campaign to Catch a Shooter

As a small crowd gathered in front of 2396 Valentine Ave. chanting, “No more guns! No more violence!” clusters of onlookers gathered on nearby stoops and poked their heads out of window perches above. Organizers of the anti-violence rally hoped one of those onlookers might come forward with information about the shooting of Yvette Torres, a 15-year-old DeWitt Clinton High School student.

Rally for Clinton H.S. Shooting Victim Grows On Facebook

While 15-year-old DeWitt Clinton High School student Yvette Torres fights for her life at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, a group of people, many of whom have never met her, some from as far away as Massachusetts, are doing their best to track down the person who shot her in the back of the head and bring them to justice.

LGBT Activists Discuss Solutions to Bronx Intolerance

Through a series of town hall meetings and other public activities, advocates and organizers are working to promote lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender tolerance in the Bronx, a borough that gained a bad reputation for its intolerance last fall when a group of young adults in Morris Heights were arrested for viciously beating and sodomizing two youths and another man because they suspected the victims were gay.