Apartment Fire Kills Bedford Park Woman

At around 7 a.m. this morning, 56-year-old Miriam Morales, a resident of 2977 Bainbridge Ave., in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, died in her apartment after a fire broke out.

Bainbridge Ave. Fire Lot To Become Retail

If you’ve walked by the empty lot on Bainbridge Avenue and 204th Street recently, you may have noticed a difference: construction crews working to turn it into something other than the rubble-strewn lot that it has been since Halloween of 2009 when the building standing there was burned down by a fire.

A Bronx Neighborhood Loses Its Pizza Man, But Not His Pizza

It’s a typical Monday night inside Sal’s Pizza and Restaurant, Norwood’s oldest and most popular Italian joint. Hurried locals drop in for a quick slice. Friends pick up take-out. A family stops for a sit-down meal. And there’s Sal Calces, the gregarious, omnipresent owner of his namesake eatery since 1980. Two days from now, Sal will be gone.