Hoping to drum up parent involvement in this year’s Community Education Council elections, the Department of Education (DOE) is allowing all parents to weigh in on their favorite candidates online.
But the number of candidates has declined sharply and election outreach efforts have lagged, leaving candidates to acknowledge a general sense that parents aren’t tuned in to what purpose the councils serve or why they should get involved with them in the first place.
One of only a dozen recipients of the 2009 New York Times Company Foundation College Scholarship, 18-year-old Andrew Boryga of Bedford Park is headed for the Ivy League.
Thanks to a new coalition of the borough’s four largest institutions -Fordham, the Zoo, Montefiore Medical Center and the New York Botanical Garden – plans are in place to transform a stretch of Fordham Road into a lush, tree-lined parkway. It’s just one of several aesthetically pleasing projects being developed and pushed by the Four Bronx Institutions Alliance.
Firefighters tore through several Bainbridge Avenue businesses Monday morning, gutting a bakery and damaging several other stores as they searched for a fire issuing smoke but no flames, according to business owners and witnesses.
Police want guns off the street and they’re willing to pay for them. As part of a citywide NYPD initiative, Bronxites can surrender an operable gun and receive a $200 bank card, Saturday, April 25 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at two local churches.
A man stabbed to death on March 29 on Marion Avenue in North Fordham has been identified by a relative as Solomon Legend Tabar, 31, of the Dominican Republic.
So confident in his ability to win the special election for borough president on April 21 is Assemblyman Ruben Diaz Jr. that he’s even announced his future deputy borough president, longtime Bronx politician and Assemblywoman Aurelia Greene, who accepted the offer.
The city is looking to hear from the community about the possibility of putting a new school at 3177 Webster Ave.
The Kingsbridge Armory Task Force is set to meet on April 24. What will the topic of discussion be? Depends on who you ask: the city or community groups.