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Breaking: Fire at Montefiore Medical Center (Updated)

Firefighters are currently responding to a two-alarm fire at Montefiore Hospital, on Gun Hill Road, near Bainbridge Avenue. Norwood News editor Alex Kratz is on the scene and says the blaze was small and started by a generator above emergency room. The emergency room and two intensive care rooms were evacuated. According to the hospital’s Twitter feed, no one was injured and the fire was contained immediately. We’ll have more information for you as it come in. Update: Employees returning to the building, as of 2:55 p.m.

Searching for Answers in the Murder of Bimal Chanda

Last Thursday evening, as mourners began paying their respects to murder victim Bimal Chanda at the Parkchester Funeral Home, Chanda’s friends joined with community leaders and local elected officials outside of the building to publicly demand answers in his death.

Q&A With Lloyd Ultan, Bronx Borough Historian

On Oct. 26, Lloyd Ultan—a veritable human encyclopedia of all things Boogie Down—marked his 15th year as the Bronx Borough Historian. Ultan, 73, is the longest-serving of the five borough historians, his term spanning those of three different borough presidents. The Norwood News caught up with Ultan recently to get his take on how the Bronx has changed during his tenure, and to hear what he’s been up to lately. Q:Where in the Bronx did you grow up, and where do you live now? A: I was born on the Grand Concourse, near Morris Avenue, in a building that no


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DOT Looks to Put Gun Hill Road on Fast Track

Despite its name, traffic on Gun Hill Road is known to be anything but bullet speed. That’s why the Department of Transportation has presented a new study that includes a slew of fixes it hopes will speed up the molasses-slow road.

MS 80 Program Aims at Opening Elite School Doors

On a recent rainy Saturday morning, seventh-grader Mehrina Tabassum sat quietly at the front of a classroom inside MS 80 on Mosholu Parkway, listening as a tutor instructed the small group of students to tackle a math problem. Through a new tutoring program, she hopes to buck history and gain admittance into one of the city’s elite and selective public high schools.

16 Cops Indicted in Bronx Ticket Fix Probe

Following a three-year probe by the Bronx District Attorney’s office into alleged ticket fixing practices inside the NYPD, 16 Bronx police officers and five civilians were indicted by a grand jury last week.