Bronx Notes: Sickle Cell Awareness Fair on Saturday

The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore is hosting a Sickle Cell Awareness Month event and fair for families with children living with sickle cell disease on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Cherkasky Auditiorium inside Montefiore’s Moses Campus (at the Gun Hill Road entrance near Rochambeau Avenue). Learn about: managing your pain, new treatments for sickle cell pain, what is safe and with is not, alternative therapies, staying healthy. Lunch will be served. Arts and crafts will be available for younger children. RSVP to (718) 741-2342.

Bronx Notes: 52nd Precinct Community Council Meeting Tonight

The 52nd Precinct Community Council will meet tonight, Thursday, Sept. 27, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Cosmopolitan AME Church, 39 W. 190th St. For more information, call (718) 220-5824. Council meetings offer residents within the 52nd Precinct — the neighborhoods of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham, Kingsbridge and University Heights — to voice their concerns and discuss crime and public safety issues with precinct leaders.

Bronx Notes: Lehman College Art Gallery Programs

The Lehman College Art Gallery, 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd., W., offers a variety of new programs for children, teachers and families. Students will analyze, interpret and share their reactions to the gallery’s works and participate in in-class art projects. For more information, call (718) 960-8731 or visit www.lehman.edu/gallery.

Pizzeria Owner Says He Was Set Up for a Robbery By Bogus Tip (Update)

Fresh off an overnight stay in jail, the relatively new owner of Sal’s Pizza and Restaurant says his very public arrest during dinner time on Tuesday evening was based on erroneous information given to police and that he was the victim of a robbery set up. Musa Neishewat, who purchased the popular Norwood eatery last winter, said police entered his packed restaurant on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., saying they were told that drugs and guns were being sold from his establishment. Neishewat said he told the officers they could look at video recordings from his security camera system, which stores


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Bainbridge Ave. Fire Lot To Become Retail

If you’ve walked by the empty lot on Bainbridge Avenue and 204th Street recently, you may have noticed a difference: construction crews working to turn it into something other than the rubble-strewn lot that it has been since Halloween of 2009 when the building standing there was burned down by a fire.

Bronx Notes: ‘Salute to the Bronx’ at Library Center Tonight

The Bronx Library Center, 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd., is hosting a Salute to the Bronx tonight from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Join Bronx-natives, MSNBC host Chris Hayes and NBC 4 New York’s Darlene Rodriguez, to witness exciting performances, hear neighborhood lore, meet special guests and see what’s on deck for The Bronx.

Bronx News Roundup, Sept. 26

Welcome back to another exciting and informative edition of the Bronx News Roundup. Here are the stories we’re following today, starting with weather: Strong chance of rain before 3 p.m., then scattered showers or thunderstorms possible later on. High around 77.