The Bainbridge Bakery, which was destroyed along with nine other businesses on Bainbridge Avenue last Halloween, has re-opened with a new a name and a new location.

After reports of a foul odor, NYPD investigators discovered a dead body of a man at Harris Field in Bedford Park on July 15.

The Verizon Foundation has given a grant of $2,000 to the Bronx News Network in support of its Bronx Youth Journalism Initiative for high school students. The grant will go toward the publication of Bronx Youth Heard, the newspaper produced by the students. Bronx Youth Heard is inserted into the Norwood News, as well as the Mount Hope Monitor and the Tremont Tribune.

Soon after Pedro Espada, Jr. toppled indicted incumbent Efrain Gonzalez to take over as the state senator in the Bronx’s 33rd District in the fall of 2008, he began negotiating an appointment to chair one of the state’s most coveted committees, the Housing Committee. So began Espada’s stint as head of the Senate Housing Committee, which has managed not to address any of the tenant protection bills favored by pro-tenant groups and the Assembly.

The Fordham Road Business Improvement District (BID) unveiled new evergreen shrubs, flowers and ground covers in outdoor containers at Muller Triangle on East Fordham Road and Creston Avenue at East 190th Street. Sustainable South Bronx’s Best Eco graduates assisted with the plantings earlier this month.

Victor’s Footwear & Apparel, which opened less than a year ago in New Jersey, has now expanded to the shoe mecca of the Bronx: Fordham Road. It is Victor’s only location in New York.

Our arts, entertainment and recreational events calendar.

Free ESL and GED Classes MS 80, located at 149 E. Mosholu Pkwy. N., is offering free ESL and GED classes to members of the community, ages 21 and older, Saturdays starting Sept. 25. Registration will be held every Saturday beginning Sept. 18 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The courses require a 50-adult minimum, and a commitment is expected. For more information, call parent coordinator, Mrs. Alejandro, at (718) 405-6300 ext. 1131. PS 94, at 3530 Kings College Place, is offering free ESL classes on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 5:10 to 8:30 p.m. Interested parents can sign up

Read More

State Senator Pedro Espada, Jr., who has spent the past year boasting of the "millions" of dollars he has brought into his Bronx district as one of the state’s most powerful lawmakers, appears to have left the vast majority of that money on the table.