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Bronx Day in Albany 2026 Change Maker Award Recipients Announced

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The Bronx Chamber of Commerce announced Friday, Feb. 27, the 17 recipients of the 2026 Bronx Day in Albany Change Maker Award, which Chamber officials said recognizes Bronx-based businesses, nonprofits and entrepreneurs making meaningful contributions to the borough’s economy, workforce and communities.

UPDATE Former Bronx City Councilman Andy King is back in NYC after Being Stuck in Mexico amid Cartel Unrest

By DAVID GREENE
Former New York City Councilman Andy King (C.D. 12) is reportedly back in The Bronx after he got stranded in Mexico with a party of 25 New Yorkers. He said the group sheltered in place at a hotel in Cancún following the recent snow blizzard that shut down New York airports and as simultaneously, violence erupted across Mexico following the killing of the alleged leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.”  

Eastchester: Man Charged with Murder in Fatal Gas Explosion at NYCHA’s Boston Secor Houses

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Wednesday, Feb. 25, that a man has been charged with second-degree murder, burglary, assault and other related charges for allegedly instigating an early morning gas leak in a NYCHA apartment building in the Eastchester section of The Bronx which resulted in an explosion and fire that killed a tenant and caused dozens of other tenants to be evacuated at the height of the year’s first major snowstorm. Read our initial coverage of the fire, click here.  

Twenty-Two City Council Members Call on State to Give City Power to Tax Millionaires

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Twenty-two members, a minority, of the New York City Council’s 51 member-body released a joint statement on Wednesday, Feb. 25, calling on the State legislature and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to pass the Fair Share Act, legislation they say would grant New York City the authority to enact a 2% income tax increase on millionaires.  

UPDATE Inquiring Photographer: Thoughts on Accountability over the “Epstein Files”

By DAVID GREENE
This week, we asked readers for their opinions on the “Epstein Files” and if they believe anyone else will be held accountable for sex crimes or for assisting Jeffrey Epstein with the sex crimes he perpetrated. It’s been widely reported that Epstein died in custody in 2019 as he awaited his trial on sex trafficking charges. He was convicted a decade earlier and spent 13 months in a county jail, which included a work-release program, for soliciting prostitution from a minor.