Topic: South Bronx

Apple of love & hate

New York Post - 17 days ago
New Yorkers. They grouse. They groan. They mumble. They grumble.. . A train's on time? It's crowded. Grab a cab? It's dirty. Get an apartment? It's...

EPA Environmental Justice Grants to Help New York City Communities Prevent Lead Poisoning and Restore Wetlands; Organizations in Northern Manhattan, the South Bronx and Jamaica to Receive Funds (NY)

U.S. EPA: News - 21 days ago
(New York, N.Y. - Jan. 23, 2012) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing $75,000 to two New York City organizations to help them...

Regional boards work to consolidate parochial schools

NY Daily News - 110 days ago
After closing 27 schools last year - 13 of them in the city - the Archdiocese of New York is rolling out the next phase of its reorganization plan...

R&B star Joe has own string theory

NY Daily News - 115 days ago
What's more cool . . . acoustic guitar strings or the trigger of a gun?. . R & B singer Joe is building an ambitious plan to lure New York's young...

Night of stabbings, shootings across NYC

NY Daily News - 121 days ago
Bullets and blades took a toll as the weekend got under way, with at least two dead and a dozen wounded in shootings and stabbings across the...

Occupy 161st st.? Rally against welfare system

NY Daily News - 124 days ago
Occupy Wall Street became Occupy 161st St. Tuesday, with a lone protester from the downtown movement canvassing a welfare line in the South Bronx...

Add school layoffs to agenda downtown

NY Daily News - 132 days ago
There's another angry rally planned for lower Manhattan Tuesday - this one focused on hundreds of city workers scheduled to be laid off at the end...

SRO at Civic Action Summit; Honderich can't find a seat

Posted Toronto - 366 days ago
The summit of the Greater Toronto Civic Action Alliance is such a success that, when John Honderich walked in to the vast Room 106 of the basement...

How schools and parents enable peer pressure

Helium - 461 days ago
When the time came for our oldest to start kindergarten, I found myself in a state of major stress and trepidation. I began to become aware of the fact that the majority of the sixth grade girls - and a large percentage of ...

Keke Palmer

Mahalo - 467 days ago
Keke Palmer is an singer who played the title role in Akeelah and the Bee . Special Victims Unit (2005) Keke Stewart on Keke & Jamal (2005) Kenya Russell in Knights of the South Bronx (2005) Nichole "Nikki" Grady in Madea's Family Reunion ...