New Occupiers and Bronx Stalwarts Meet in the Middle

By David Greene This past Saturday, demonstrators from the nascent Occupy the Bronx movement joined forces with old guard grassroots organizers from the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition to collectively call out big banks for their role in creating in the country’s economic crisis. But first, each group held their own separate assemblies on opposite ends of Fordham Road.

We Toured de Bronx

Early Sunday morning thousands gathered on 161st street for the start of the 17th annual Tour de Bronx. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. welcomed the huge crowd of people, coming from the five boroughs, Westchester County and even as far as Stamford, Conn., to take part in the annual ride.

Clinton Edges JFK in Emotional Win

The hotly anticipated match-up between old football rivals the DeWitt Clinton Governors and the John F. Kennedy’s Knights ended with redemption for Kennedy coach turned Clinton Defensive Coordinator Alex Vega, according to the NY Post.

Bronx Celebrates ‘Food Day’ With New School Health Initiative

Today is officially Food Day in New York City–the first annual government-sponsored day to celebrate “real food and healthy eating,” marked by events across the five boroughs with a focus on nutrition. In the Bronx this morning, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., and State Sen. Gustavo Rivera were at Mount St. Ursula Academy in Bedford Park to kick off a new health initiative for local schools. The Family Health Challenge, developed alongside the Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center and the Committee of Interns and Residents, asks students and their families to set small goals for themselves–cut out soda one

Meeting Tonight: How to Fix Gun Hill Road

The Department of Transportation is holding another public input session concerning Gun Hill Road’s congestion and safety problems at Mosholu Montefiore Community Center, 3450 Dekalb Ave., tonight at 6:30 p.m.

Send Us Your Health Questions!

Got a pressing health, fitness, or nutrition question on your mind? Send them our way! We’re ready to tackle your queries about food, sex, illness, health insurance, prescription medications–any health-related topics that puzzle or interest you. We’ll answer your question in a new Q&A feature appearing in the Norwood News‘ Be Healthy! column. If we don’t know, we’ll ask to experts. You can sign your name or send it anonymously. Send your queries to: norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org. Here’s a link to the first installment of the Be Healthy! Q&A, which was featured in last week’s Norwood News. <<<Click here

Happy Monday, Breaking Bronx readers. From here on out, we’ll be starting each work week off with a post called “Weekend Wrap,” linking to relevant local news and big Bronx stories that went down over the weekend. Make sure you check back with us here every Monday. Some items from the last few days: A bill passed recently by the City Council will require the DOE to provide extensive reports on how school space is being utilized–though local parents are skeptical this will do anything for the crammed classrooms in the notoriously overcrowded Bronx District 10. This Daily News story

Friday News & Notes

Friday News & Notes is a new regular feature we’re implementing on Breaking Bronx as a way to report news tidbits, preview weekend happenings, and point out some of the stories you may have missed earlier in the week. Like Breaking Bronx, this will be an evolving feature. — “Master carver” Ray Villafane will be at the Botanical Garden this weekend carving up the world’s largest pumpkin, which weighs in at 1,818.5 pounds. The photo above, by Adi Talwar, is from last year’s giant pumpkin carving extravaganza at the Garden. Click here for more of Adi’s pumpkin carving photos. —

PS 51 Parents Hold Rally, Walcott Agrees to Meet

After persistent lobbying, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said he would meet with parents of students at PS 51, the Bronx New School, which was moved from Bedford Park to Crotona after the building the school had inhabited for nearly two decades was found to be contaminated.