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Bronx Notes: Free Trees!

MillionTreesNYC is giving out free trees in April at several locations throughout the Bronx. Claim a tree or fruit tree for your home, community garden, or even commercial property. They will have several Bronx tree giveaways at the following dates and locations: March 30 at Hunts Point Riverside Park, Lafayette Avenue, from 10 a.m.-noon; April 6, at River Garden, East 180th Street and Devoe Avenue from 10 a.m.-noon; April 14 at the Woodlawn Cemetery entrance at Jerome Avenue and Bainbridge Avenue from 9 a.m.-11 a.m.; April 14 at Van Cortlandt Park, Mosholu Avenue and Broadway, from 11 a.m.- 1 p.m.; April 28 at Wave Hill’s visitor parking lot from 9 a.m.-11 a.m.

Bronx Councilman’s Detailed Crime Stats Bill Gets Hearing

Bronx Councilman Fernando Cabrera’s proposed legislation to make detailed crime statistics more widely available, which has evolved since its inception nearly two years ago to take advantage of new mapping technology, is getting close to making it onto the floor for a vote.

World Traveler Back in the Bronx 30 Years Later

Sometime toward the middle of a record-breaking journey by foot through the Americas three decades ago, George Meegan found himself walking up Perry Avenue in the Bronx. Now, some 30 years after his 19,019-mile walk from Tierra del Fuego in Argentina to Alaska’s Point Barrow, which earned him global notoriety, Meegan is back, stopping through on what has become a lifelong trek.

Bedford Park Woman Killed Crossing Middle of Parkway

A witness shows an investigator where the car came from before it fatally struck Bedford Park resident Sook-Ja Kim. (Photo by David Greene)[/caption] A 63-year-old Bedford Park woman died Sunday after being hit by an out-of-control car while walking on the grassy divider in the middle of Mosholu Parkway — a field where a large group of children were playing football just a day earlier.

Panel Votes to Shrink DeWitt Clinton High School

DeWitt Clinton High School boasts a deep roster of famous alumni that includes comedians, athletes, authors, judges, politicians, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners. But when it came down to it just before 1 a.m. on March 12 inside the cavernous auditorium at Brooklyn Technical High School, a total of five supporters, three teachers and two parents, stuck it out until the bitter end.