Living Wage Bill Passes, Quinn Walks Out of Press Conference (Video)

After nearly two years of campaigning and many significant revisions, the City Council today passed a version of the controversial Living Wage bill, which was introduced by two Bronx council members, and born out of a 2009 fight over wage requirements at a shopping mall proposed to fill the Bronx’s Kingsbridge Armory. The bill, which Mayor Bloomberg has vowed to veto, would require developers that receive significant taxpayer subsidies to pay direct workers $10 an hour with benefits, or $11.50 without. We’ll have a more thorough look at the bill’s passage tomorrow and in this week’s print issue of Norwood

Bronx Notes: Neighborhood Association Workshop Tonight at Mosholu Library

On Monday, April 30 from 6:30 to 8 p.m., as part of an ongoing community organizing/quality of life initiative, Community Board 7 is conducting a “Neighborhood Association Workshop” at the Mosholu Library, 285 E. 205th St.

Bronx Links, Monday

It will be in mostly sunny in the Bronx today, with temperatures in the mid-50s. A chance of rain is expected for tomorrow. Here are some top local headlines in the news this morning: Seven members of a Bronx family died in a horrific car crash yesterday afternoon when their SUV hit a median on the Bronx River Parkway and plunged off of an overpass, landing near the Bronx Zoo. Authorities are investigating the cause of the accident, which killed a couple visiting from the Dominican Republican, their two daughters, who lived in the Bronx, and three grandchildren. Two people

On Saturday at noon, the Friends of Williamsbridge Oval are holding a painting party in Oval Park and everyone is invited. They will be painting trash barrels with cool designs and constructing holders for dog waste bags. The Friends say “This is your chance to get involved, contribute to the park and meet great neighbors.”

Bronx Crime Watch: Arrests in Two Murder Cases

Police recently made arrests in two high-profile Bronx murder cases.

Bronx Links, Friday Edition

Here are some of the Bronx stories we’re following this Friday.

End Days Coming For 10 Bronx Schools

School’s out forever come this summer for 24 New York City public schools, 10 of which are in the Bronx, after a meeting and vote by the Department of Education’s Panel for Education Policy last night in Brooklyn.

Fates of 10 Bronx Schools Hangs in Balance Tonight

Kevin Kearns, an English teacher in his fourth year at the Bronx’s Herbert S. Lehman High School, expects the Department of Education’s decision-making body, the Panel for Education Policy, to vote in favor of closing his school tonight at a meeting in Brooklyn. Still, he’s making the trek out to the meeting anyway to testify in hopes that other schools won’t suffer the same fate in years to come.