The Fingees in the courtyard at Montefiore Hospital. Monday afternoon felt more like happy hour at a Jamaican resort than lunchtime in the courtyard at Montefiore Medical Center. As part of a weekly Summer Concert series (on Mondays), Bronx reggae band, The Fingees, performed for a moderate crowd of Montefiore employees under…
Finding a general lack of political support, Bronx Assemblyman Michael Benjamin has decided not to challenge Congressman Jose E. Serrano this fall, according to a story on City Hall magazine's website. He added, however, that he would give it another shot in 2012. Benjamin, who generated some buzz for calling Tea Partier Rand…
Detectives are looking for the individual who shot and killed a man along Perry Avenue (pictured above), a quiet tree-lined street in Norwood, just three short blocks from the 52nd Precinct. Police were called to Perry Avenue, between Mosholu Parkway North and E. 204 Street, at 2:24 a.m., on Saturday, June 19, when officer's…
The Times profiles Father John Flynn, the retiring longtime pastor of St. Martins of Tours church whose presence has become a fixture in the Crotona area since 1981. He presided over his last mass (pictured above) on Sunday.
England hasn't won, France hasn't won, Spain hasn't won, this World Cup has been bana....wait, baseball is still on? Ugh, fine. We can talk about that. The Yankees have recaptured first place! They've got the best record in baseball and they lead the division by a whopping one game over two teams. Two…
With the oil spill horrifically raging in the Gulf, tonight on BronxTalk, host Gary Axelbank will talk with energy experts about alternatives to fossil fuels.
Despite neighborhoods littered with vacant homes and sale prices that dropped dramatically in the past three years, more Americans are spending more of their money on housing expenses than ever before. A report by Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies found 18.6 million American households –renters and homeowners alike – spend more than half…
Two months after a federal judge granted class action status to a group of tenants suing the Pinnacle Group, the formal process of finding people who think they were wronged by the giant landlord is on hold. Pinnacle has asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for permission to challenge that class certification, and a…
