Tag: Bronx
Grizz Chapman, one of Tracy Morgan’s two-man posse on 30 Rock, is pitching a TV show based on a comic book store in the Bronx. DNAinfo reports that Chapman’s dream is to bring the “kooky characters” and nerdom of the Liar, a comic book store that he’s part-owned for a few years, to the mainstream. […]
Santiago Hernandez says he was beaten by police in the Bronx, after being arrested during a search. A surveillance video shows the 23-year-old man speaking with two female police officers, who later put him in handcuffs. Afterwards, a half dozen more officers appear to pile on him and beat him while he lies cuffed on the […]
Emma Duvoll is luckier than you. The 75-year-old Bronx woman won $2 million in on Powerball this weekend, playing the numbers she found in a fortune cookie. “I was surprised, but pleased,” she told ABC. “I took some time contemplating what I will do with the money. I plan to invest most of it and maybe take […]
Several bus stops along the Bronx’s Southern Boulevard will become impromptu listening spaces under a plan approved by Robert Steel, Bloomberg’s deputy mayor for economic development. The new stations, proposed by the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation and designed by the Design Trust for Public Space, will play music that nods to the Bronx’s cultural history […]
The mayor’s office announced a big free public wi-fi initiative today, which is good for everyone–you’ll be able to hook up for free in new areas across the five boroughs–but especially for residents of low- and middle-income areas, which often get shortchanged on other city programs (ahem, Citi Bike). The program, funded mostly with private […]
Cops busted the Bronx’s hardest-partying day care this week, turning up 1,000 oxycodone pills, tens of thousands of dollars in cash, guns, and at least a kilo of cocaine at Parkchester’s Fun World Childcare. Three hundred grams of that coke was stuffed into what looked like a kid’s lunchbox. Gregorio Hanley and Johanna Vasquez, the married, […]
No word on why this woman is smashing the windows of a silver Nissan Xterra with a golf club, but we’ll watch anyway. Reddit and YouTube both speculate that it’s her husband’s car. To paraphrase one redditor and one of the greatest films ever made, this is what happens when you fuck a stranger in […]
At 3pm yesterday, NYPD, state police, and DEA agents arrived at a Long Island City warehouse, seized 1,000 pot plants, arrested the heinous criminals that were growing the crop, and rolled out, thus bringing to an end the weed addiction epidemic that’s been plaguing New York for decades. What are you going to do with […]
As you may recall, the Bronx’s Artuso Bakery won local fame for its delicious cookies depicting Pope Benedict XVI. And now that he’s resigned and that other guy has taken his place, they’ve adapted, turning out batches of pastries carrying the image of Pope Francis. Apparently, they were in a state of flux during the […]
Poor Santiago Munoz. The 14-year-old from Queens is a student at the Bronx High School of Science. Munoz, who lives in Far Rockaway, wakes up at 5 a.m. each school day, taking two hours and twenty minutes to get to school and usually two hours and forty minutes to get back. The trek requires two […]
