Bronx County News

New York State Department of Transportation Acting Commissioner Stanley Gee was joined by State Senator Jose Serrano, Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, Assemblywoman Vanessa Gibson, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

Syracuse a ' The statewide unemployment rate fell slightly from October to November, but the State Department of Labor says it is still too early to call it a trend.

THE BRONX Council on the Arts is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its prestigious BRIO Award with the special new exhibition, "Anthem: An All-American Dystopia," which is now on display in the Longwood Art Gallery, at Hostos Community College, through Saturday, Feb.

'Bronx County Hall of Justice', Architect: Rafael Vinoly, 2001-2007. Photo: Paul Warchol and Rafael Vinoly Architects.

Former state Sen. Efrain Gonzalez may be trying to withdraw his guilty plea to plundering $200G in state funding from local nonprofits.

Another Bronx teen, 17 year-old Issi Dominguez, was shot to death early yesterday morning in Fordham at 182nd Street and Valentine Avenue.

I'm Jared Silverman. I want to thank NJJN editor-in-chief Andrew Silow-Carroll for inviting me to write this column.

A convicted drug dealer has admitted to possessing 12 ounces of cocaine when St.

DeSIMONE-Rocco J., M.D., long-time resident of Rye, NY passed away on November 6, 2009.

FIVE days a week, Michael Kiernan, 50, a computer network administrator, makes the 90-minute commute home from the Bronx County Courthouse, where he works, to suburban Long Beach on Long Island.

A technicality forced a judge to reject a plea agreement offered to a 17-year-old girl charged with burning a cat in an oven, New York prosecutors said.

Jousting with the landlord over rent stabilized apartments is a uniquely NYC type of activity.

Gary Axelbank, Baron Ambrosia , and Handal Gomez Abdelrahim - a borough hall observer, an extravagant epicure and a hip-hop historian - have two things in common: They live in the Riverdale/Kingsbridge area, and they use BronxNet to get their message out.

It's 3:00 AM when I climb out of the subway into misty smells and trash-strewn streets to see something that never fails to amuse or amaze: bright light blazing and bachata blaring out of a barber shop hosting half a dozen men talking and laughing while one sits with his chin pointed at the ceiling as a mahogany skinned man slowly straight razors ...

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. will hold a public hearing regarding Cablevision.

Police are looking for a 13-year-old Soundview girl who's been missing since Monday morning .

Rufus Clark and Mable May 's love story has had its highs and lows. "I was ill, and Mable took care of me," said Clark.

An overhead view of the Bronx County Recycling crushing spread. Click to enlarge photo.

A bid to streamline cases in the Bronx backfired, leading to long delays to go to trial.

The supervisors of northern Westchester watershed towns are preparing to formally object to a proposal by county Legislator Martin Rogowsky that New York City watershed funds controlled by the county be used for a sewer project in Quarry Heights on the edge of the city's watershed.