The latest in The Bronx

Convictions overturned in NY firefighter deaths

2010-02-23T13:46:12Z

<div id="subtitle">NYC judge overturns convictions of building manager, company in 2 firefighters' deaths</div><div><p>A judge on Tuesday overturned negligent homicide and reckless endangerment convictions against the manager of an apartment building where tenants constructed a labyrinth of illegal walls that forced two firefighters to jump to their deaths to escape a surging blaze.</p><p>There was no e...

Ailing Apartments

2010-02-21T09:00:15Z

In this Feb. 11, 2010 photo, a memo that went out to residents of Mary Fountain's apartment building when they had no gas or heat during the 2009 Thanksgiving holiday season is shown. This Bronx apartment building, where city housing violations have increased from 82 to nearly 600 in 16 months, is among thousands of rental properties from ...

Decaying apartments symptom of housing crisis

2010-02-21T09:00:05Z

<div id="subtitle">Mortgage crisis brings creeping decay to middle-class apartment buildings from Calif to NY</div><div><p>There was no heat or hot water, so for weeks Mary Fountain would fill a bowl and put it in the microwave, then strip off her extra layers to sponge herself clean.</p><p>Upstairs, her longtime neighbor, 70-year-old Gearaldine Davis, peers skeptically out at her balcony, hesitant to s...

bet summit panel

2010-02-10T17:32:19Z

Sammie, Jessica Reedy, Dr. Jeri Dyson, Mary J. Blige, Marvelyn Brown, and Alesha Renee BET's Rap-It-Up & FFAWN Foundation's Celebrity Health Forum at the Women's Academy of Excellenc...

Four rescued bear cubs from Alaska and

2010-01-28T17:17:21Z

Four rescued bear cubs from Alaska and Montana find a new home at The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo . The three brown bear cubs are siblings and originally from Baranof Island, Alaska. The or...

pete wentz

2010-01-04T17:31:39Z

Pete Wentz and Bronx seen out braving the cold weather in Soho. New York City, USA - 04.01.10

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Arsonists torch Bronx synagogue-turned-church

2010-02-23T17:48:24Z

<div id="subtitle">Arsonists torch Bronx synagogue-turned-church, leave Satanic graffiti</div><div><p>A former Bronx synagogue that was turned into a church was torched by assailants who smeared Satanic graffiti on its walls.</p><p>"We have no idea who did this," said the Rev. Raymond Talavera, pastor...

Foreclosure-Rates

2009-12-09T21:45:19Z

FILE - In this March 6, 2009 file photo, a chain and padlock take the place of door knobs and locks on a foreclosed home in the Bronx, N.Y. With the foreclosure crisis showing no signs of relenting Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, the Obama administration plans to expand a program aimed at helping people remain in their homes.(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, file)

Judge says 'no' to defense request in NY bomb plot

2010-02-23T20:39:48Z

<div id="subtitle">Judge: Prosecutors in NY bomb plot don't have to disclose payments to informant, for now</div><div><p>A judge says prosecutors don't have to disclose before trial any payments from a federal informant to four men accused of plotting to bomb New York synagogues.</p><p>Defense lawyers have suggested the men were lured into the plot with inducements ...

Home Foreclosures

2009-11-30T05:30:51Z

National Day Of Outrage Activists Protest Gun Violence

2009-11-23T15:32:28Z

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 23: A woman cries as she listens to testimonials from the families of shooting victims at a conference and candlelight vigil as part of a National Day of Outrage in New York and other major U.S. cities on November 23, 2009 in the Bronx borough of New York City. Fo...

Travel Trip Holiday Train Shows

2009-11-23T15:31:52Z

This November 2009 photo supplied by The New York Botanical Garden shows a 20-square-foot replica of the original Pennsylvania Station, a 1910 building that was torn down in 1964. The model was designed from plant material by Paul Busse and is debuting in the Holiday Train Show this year at the garden...

Goldman Sachs to take out garbage at Thanksgiving

2010-02-24T02:44:37Z

<div id="subtitle">Goldman Sachs employees to collect garbage at ritzy Thanksgiving meals for hungry NYers</div><div><p>The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free dinners across the city this Thanksgiving — meals planned by a star chef, cooked by one of Tajuana Rivera, 42, of Staten Island, takes a second look at a New York Yankees World Series baseball cap while paying for merchandise at Modell's in the Bronx borough of New York on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. (AP...

World Series Baseball

2009-11-05T17:17:16Z

Paula Cunha, 20, of Denia, Spain, left, jumps for a photo taken by her mother Maria Pelegrin, right, while visiting Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York Thursday Nov...

Compelling ÔBronx TaleÕ is refreshingly good theater

2010-02-24T18:32:30Z

<div><p> I wondered why Chazz PalminteriÕs ÒA Bronx TaleÓ was suddenly booked into the Venetian Showroom for a limited run this month.</p><p>Was it because Palminteri is Italian, and his semi-autobiographical solo show fits the casinoÕs Italianate theme? Because Wayne Brady canceled all his October dates in the showroom?</p>...

a bronx tale

2009-10-08T09:18:41Z

Matt Othick, Trent Othick, John Gauhan 'A Bronx Tale' post performance party at Lavo inside The Palazzo Las Vegas, Nevada - 07.10.09

Several charged in NYC construction corruption

2010-02-24T23:58:46Z

<div id="subtitle">Former building inspectors, reputed mob figures, charged in NYC construction corruption</div><div><p>Six former New York City building inspectors, two reputed Lucchese crime family leaders and more than two dozen other people and businesses were indicted Thursday in a sprawling racketeering c...

NY fire Samaritan proposes on live TV

2010-02-25T00:10:02Z

<div id="subtitle">New Yorker credited with dramatic fire rescue proposes to girlfriend on live TV</div><div><p>A Good Samaritan, shown on video dramatically rescuing a child from a Bronx fire, has moved on to another great moment: proposing marriage on live television.</p><p>Horia Cretan (HOHR'-ee-uh kray-TAHN') got down on one knee Thursday on ABC's "