Bronx News Roundup, May 31

Good morning, lovely people, and welcome to the Thursday edition of the Bronx News Roundup. Here are the Bronx stories we’re following today on the Breaking Bronx blog. Weather: Gorgeous. Sunny, high of 84, nice little wind, not too humid.

Bronx News Round Up, Wednesday, May 30

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome back to another edition of the Bronx News Roundup. We’re back after the holiday and putting the Norwood News print edition to bed last night. We’ll be rolling out those stories here on Breaking Bronx over the next few days as well as posting items we couldn’t fit into the paper. Here are the Bronx stories we rounded up from the past few days. Weather: National Weather Service says there’s a slight chance of showers before 2 p.m and after 3 p.m., so enjoy your one hour window outside.

Bronx News Roundup, Thursday, May 24

Good morning, folks, and welcome to the Thursday edition our Bronx News Roundup. Here are the Bronx news stories we’re following today. Weather: Another day of overcast mugginess with a chance for showers at any moment.

Bronx News Roundup, Wednesday, May 23

Good morning, beautiful readers. Welcome back to Breaking Bronx on the Norwood News. Here’s a look at the Bronx news stories we’re following today. Weather: Decent chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms today and muggy, high around 77.

Bronx News Roundup, Tuesday, May 22

Good morning, dear readers. Here are the Bronx stories we’re following today. Weather: Kind of rainy and foggy all day, high in the upper 60s.

Living Wage Bill Passes, Quinn Walks Out of Press Conference (Video)

After nearly two years of campaigning and many significant revisions, the City Council today passed a version of the controversial Living Wage bill, which was introduced by two Bronx council members, and born out of a 2009 fight over wage requirements at a shopping mall proposed to fill the Bronx’s Kingsbridge Armory. The bill, which Mayor Bloomberg has vowed to veto, would require developers that receive significant taxpayer subsidies to pay direct workers $10 an hour with benefits, or $11.50 without. We’ll have a more thorough look at the bill’s passage tomorrow and in this week’s print issue of Norwood

Bronx Links, Monday

It will be in mostly sunny in the Bronx today, with temperatures in the mid-50s. A chance of rain is expected for tomorrow. Here are some top local headlines in the news this morning: Seven members of a Bronx family died in a horrific car crash yesterday afternoon when their SUV hit a median on the Bronx River Parkway and plunged off of an overpass, landing near the Bronx Zoo. Authorities are investigating the cause of the accident, which killed a couple visiting from the Dominican Republican, their two daughters, who lived in the Bronx, and three grandchildren. Two people

Be Healthy! Wednesdays: Bronx ‘Teddy Bear Hospital’ Calms Youngest Patients

Editor’s Note: Every Wednesday, Breaking Bronx features a health-related story, event or tidbit as part of an online expansion of our Be Healthy! column. On May 5, the pediatric emergency department at Montefiore Medical Center will be crowded with teddy bears nursing broken arms, stuffed dogs getting treated for asthma, and probably a doll or two in need of stitches. The hospital’s 7th annual Teddy Bear Clinic lets young patients play the role of parent, where they can bring their favorite stuffed friends in for a check-up and treatment–an experience that staff says helps ease children’s fears about visiting the

A decade after an electrical fire at 3569 DeKalb Ave. claimed the life of an 8-year-old Bronx boy, journalists and housing activists are still trying to find answers to the questions posed in the wake of his death–namely, how the city should enforce housing code violations and hold landlords accountable for conditions that put tenants at risk. That was the topic of a panel discussion held at Manhattan College last night, organized by the school’s Urban Affairs department, City Limits magazine and Jordan Moss, a former Norwood News editor. The event arose from an investigation into landlord practices and regulations