Fire on Gun Hill Affects Families, Businesses

On the first Friday morning of August, Ashley Santiago looked out the window of her apartment on the corner of Gun Hill Road and Rochambeau Avenue and saw fire raining down from the sky.

Bronx Lawmakers Ask Obama to Halt Deportation Program

The federal government continues to implement a controversial deportation program despite intense criticism and the fact that three states, New York included, have already attempted to withdraw from participating in it.

City Plans Overhauls for MS 80 and MS 391

As part of an ongoing effort to turn around poor performing schools, the Department of Education is making changes this fall at 33 middle and high schools across the city, including two nearby: MS 80 on Mosholu Parkway, and MS 391, or the Angelo Patri School, further south on Webster Avenue.

Community Policing

Police and community came together on the evening of Aug. 2 in Williamsbridge Oval Park.

Gay Bronx Couples Waste No Time in Making History

By Jordan Moss The signs of a highly unusual Sunday at the Bronx County Courthouse, where profound new rights were being conferred on a large group of New Yorkers, were hard to miss. Staff of the mayor’s office, sporting orange baseball caps, warmly greeted anyone who came within 50 yards of the courthouse’s Concourse entrance. There was no crammed lineup leading to the metal detectors. Cameras, forbidden from courtrooms and confiscated for the duration of one’s visit if found, were waved on through. History, after all, was waiting for its close-up. Another gantlet of helpers led people to the correct

New Webster Ave. Plans Bring Cheers and Jeers

Webster Ave., the gritty, industrial stretch that runs through the neighborhoods of Norwood and Bedford Park was rezoned by the City Council this past March, with a plan designed to encourage more retail stores and residential housing in an area now largely composed of parking lots and auto body shops.

Creston Ave. Crew Busted in Drug Raid

Culminating a year-long investigation by the FBI and NYPD with an early morning raid on the so-called “Creston Avenue Crew,” police arrested eight people in the Bronx and three in Puerto Rico.

Mail Employees Go postal On Closure of Bronx Plant

By the end of the fall, at least 231 employees at the Bronx mail processing plant will be eliminated as the USPS consolidates all of the Bronx’s mail processing and distribution into the Manhattan plant.

ITPI: BP Asks Feds to Intervene in Muller Center Dispute

In a letter to federal authorities, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. said the mayor’s office blatantly skirted the formal process meant to determine a new use for the vacant Muller Army Reserve Center in Wakefield in order to push its own agenda — the creation of a 200-bed men’s homeless shelter at the center.