Circus Back in Town, Looking for a Home
It’s not every day you see basketball-carrying unicyclists playing double-dutch on the Grand Concourse.
But there they were, three members of the legendary Bronx-born King Charles Troupe, doing their thing on a windy, chilly Friday morning in front of the Loew’s Paradise Theater just south of Fordham Road. Onlookers passed by; most smiling and amused, some just plain confused.
Church Vows to Rebound After ‘Suspicious’ Fire
Local Residents Press DOT on Dangerous U-Heights Intersection
William Clark looks at the "T" that makes up the intersection of Sedgwick Avenue and 183rd Street and remembers the gruesome death of an older man who tried unsuccessfully to cross from one side of 183rd Street to the other.
Because of the intersection’s proximity to a day care, three elementary schools and Bronx Community College, residents want to see a stoplight installed to regulate traffic and prevent any more pedestrian casualties and car smashups. But so far, the city has been unresponsive.
Because of the intersection’s proximity to a day care, three elementary schools and Bronx Community College, residents want to see a stoplight installed to regulate traffic and prevent any more pedestrian casualties and car smashups. But so far, the city has been unresponsive.
Diaz Gives First ‘State of Borough’ Address
Borough presidents may not have as much power as the city comptroller or Council speaker, but you wouldn’t know it from the scene last week at the Evander Childs High School campus where those officials and many, many more – including two former Council speakers and former borough president Fernando Ferrer – turned out for Ruben Diaz, Jr.’s debut State of the Borough address.