The Bronx News

A New York company offering tours of Bronx neighborhoods has shut down after officials objected to its advertising that claimed to give visitors "a ride through a real New York City 'ghetto'," according to a statement from Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

Trucks race off of the Sheridan and onto local streets to get to Hunts Point and its giant food distribution center.

The morning after formally launching his mayoral bid, Anthony Weiner waded into the fray with a wide ranging radio interview revealing his stance on everything from stop-and-frisk, to the 91st Street waste transfer station, to bike lanes.

Taylor Fink, left 2, her brother Kyle, 5, and Corinne Belton, 4, climb on a new sculpture after the dedication ceremony of the sculpture and new pedestrain plaza in Huntington Station.

A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under fire from an outraged neighborhood.

An ex-con who served more than 17 years in the slammer for a murder he didn't commit graduated from Mercy College yesterday - after earning most of his credits behind bars.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday that the two knew each other well, but that the victim was knocked unconscious and didn't initially realize who had attacked him.

HE IS well used to rocking arenas around the globe, but Bono enjoyed a new experience when he saw his daughter graduate in a world-famous stadium.

Attorney John Nuchereno stunned many when he said Williams - the man accused of infecting 11 Chautauqua County women with HIV - never had the virus during a State Supreme Court hearing in Erie County.

BRONX, NEW YORK, MAY 22- Police are asking for the public’s help in trying to catch a knife-wielding robber who stuck up a cabbie in Mott Haven.

Vera Warren-Williams' Community Book Center in New Orleans is located at 2523 Bayou Rd.

BRONX, NEW YORK, MAY 22- Two separate accidents along the Grand Concourse in a 7-hour span have left one person dead and three others injured, one critically.

The Bronx Defenders took a more aggressively experimental tack several years ago when, with little fanfare, they quietly spun off a nonprofit called the Bronx Freedom Fund.

A tour company exposed by The Post on Sunday for bringing tourists to the South Bronx to gawk at food pantry lines, a "pickpocket" park and a housing project, yesterday announced it would stop all tours "effective immediately." "Good riddance," said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

BRONX, NEW YORK, MAY 20- Although the rain on Sunday afternoon postponed the baseball game between the Yankees and Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium, it did not dampen enthusiasm nor cancel the festivities several blocks east on the Grand Concourse, where the annual Bronx Walk of Fame ceremony was held. Three new Bronx idols were honored by having their names added to street signs posted along the Grand Concourse in the 161st Street area.

The Bronx River Parkway will again be closed to northbound traffic from the Sprain Brook Parkway in Yonkers to the Westchester County Center in White Plains from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday.

Source: The African American Literature Book Club, AALBC.com's website's traffic ranking, on a per capita basis, the number of visitors from cities with more than 200,000 residents.

With twenty shows and forty artists over three months and the capacity for over fifty thousand audience members, New York City's SummerStage Festival presents the continental United States' largest array of free Latin music performance this year.

An NYPD officer has been charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed 18-year-old in his Bronx home, prosecutors announced.

The Bronx native has been in the market for a Hamptons mansion for years - and finally settled on a custom-designed spread near Mecox Bay.