Coupon Survey Needed

Since the Foodtown supermarket burned down, we have been forced to shop in other local stores. Could you please consider a story on how area managers deny residents the use of manufacturers’ coupons on sale items?

Youth Haven Back With Renewed Focus

Twice a week after school for the past few months, a group of preteens have gathered in a brightly-painted basement youth center beneath the gray streets of the Knox-Gates neighborhood to create multimedia “time capsules” about their lives.

The multimedia-focused program is managed by the Knox-Gates Neighborhood Association, which recently recovered responsibility for running the COVE youth center, after handing it off to the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center (MMCC) just two years ago.

Bx. Science Hoopsters Win and Shed Stereotypes

Fans and visitors entering the Bronx High School of Science gymnasium are greeted with a huge placard featuring the faces of seven stoic looking men arranged underneath the text "Alumni Winners of the Nobel Prize."

But to believe that brains would inhibit the Bronx Science basketball team’s ability to play would be a gross underestimation.

Monte Team Back From Haiti

In the wake of a series of devastating earthquakes in Haiti, four clinicians from the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx took part in the rescue efforts. Here’s their tale.

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Out & About

A listing of arts, entertainment and recreational events for our readers in the Bronx and beyond.

Locals Reach Out in Wake of Haiti Earthquake

On Monday, local Bronxites and nurse practitioners, Colleen Kelly and Miriam Ford, carrying bags full of medical supplies, headed to Haiti (via the Dominican Republic) to help out at a free clinic in Port-au-Prince. It was just one of several local efforts to help those suffering in the aftermath of the earthquake.

Vampire, Ink

No one expected a tattoo parlor with Gothic appeal to open on Bainbridge Avenue, a low-key commercial strip surrounded by family-style apartments, hospitals, parks and churches. But Oscar Zaldivar, owner of the new tattoo shop, The Coven, between 206th and 207th streets, has never been one to act in line with people’s "expectations."