State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. will be hosting a Bronx Immigration Forum on Sept. 9, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at Bronx Community College, 2155 University Avenue in the Gould Memorial Library. Espada, who held a press conference today to announce the event, said he is holding the forum in response to a…
I briefly met Steve Pigeon today at a press conference State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. held at his Bainbridge Avenue district office to announce an immigration forum he is hosting at Bronx Community College, Sept. 9 (more details to follow). Meeting Pigeon isn't news, but his presence in the Bronx is a reminder of…
Standing outside of Pedro Espada's district office on Bainbridge Avenue, a political outpost among rows of medical offices, State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. offered a prediction for the upcoming primaries on Sept. 14. "Pedro's going to win. I'm going to win. And we're going to come back stronger, faster and better," said Diaz, who…
With the primary less than two weeks away, the New Roosevelt Initiative is stepping up its efforts to take down Pedro Espada. The political group, founded by businessman Bill Samuels, is backing Espada rival Gustavo Rivera with their money and their manpower.
Murder victim Jelani Ciria's girlfriend, daughter and brother (center), flanked by Councilman Fernando Cabrera (far left), Bishop Fernando Rodriguez (second from right), and State Senator Pedro Espada, called for justice in St. James Park yesterday. The brutal murder of a 20-year-old Bronx man on Sunday evening in St. James Park led local political…
We all knew this summer's been oppressively, relentlessly, shirt-stainingly hot, but now it's official. We are enduring the hottest summer in New York City history, according to the National Weather Service. Thankfully, temperatures are supposed to drop on Friday. City officials unveiled a new $6 million dollar skate park near Yankee Stadium. …
New York State has four of the 11 prisons and jails found in a sample to have the highest rates of staff-inmate sexual misconduct.
Will charter schools, the age difference between the candidates and Harlem’s changing racial and income demographics determine the outcome of the race between Bill Perkins and Basil Smikle?
