The Bronx News

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.

A map of Starlight Park showing the existing paths running through the park , as well as the missing links and bridges that would connect it to the rest of the Bronx River Greenway.

Anti-violence activist Iesha Sekou of Street Corner Resources speaks to bike riders on 125th Street about safety and making good decisions.

GOP mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis - who claims he's the billionaire who cares about all five boroughs - once boasted that he was a Manhattanite who felt "sorry for those people who aren't." "There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else," the supermarket mogul and Upper East Side resident told Crain's New York Business in a 1989 ... (more)

A suspect has been charged with robbing a 78-year-old man of his chain and pendant in the Bronx, just after he bought flowers to place next to his deceased mother's photo for Mother's Day.

Hermann Fuechsel's "View of the Narrows from Tompkinsville, Staten Island, 1860" is featured in "The Panoramic River." Where: Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Ave., Yonkers When: Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.; through May 19.

Two heartless thieves ripped a chain off an old man's neck as he headed home in The Bronx from a pre-Mother's Day trip to buy flowers for his deceased wife's memorial photo, cops said yesterday.

A routine traffic stop Friday morning turned into a two-hour man hunt after the driver of the vehicle fled on foot and ran into a nearby wooded area off state Route 37, near Route 56, in the town of Louisville.

The borough resident and four individuals from New York are accused of possessing heroin with the intent to distribute, among other charges.

The full performance schedule for Orion Music + More Festival, a music and lifestyle festival created by Metallica and their friends at C3 Presents, is now available at orionmusicandmore.com . In addition, $90 Single-Day Passes, including all fees, are now available.

The two charred corpses found in a fire-ravaged Bronx apartment yesterday were apparently butchered, a law enforcement source told The Post.

A reader passed along this pamphlet, which, I would argue, is probably the best thing our New York State tax dollars have produced since the Erie Canal.

Walter Puryear, project manager for the Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council, came up with the idea for the artsy skate park outside of the Andrew Freedman Home.