The Bronx News

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HELL'S KITCHEN - Ultra-cheap gym Planet Fitness opened a new location on West 55th Street this week, bringing the low-cost, casual workout chain to the West Side.

On Tuesday, June 11, 2013, The New York Public Library , which operates libraries on the isle of Manhattan, Staten Island , and The Bronx, re-opened the Stapleton Branch Library at 132 Canal Street on Staten Island.

Smartphone batteries are like vampires -- they have an unquenchable thirst for blood .

BRONX, NEW YORK, JUNE 18- A 9-year-old child was shot and a teen has been charged in the girl's attempted murder, after an individual opened fire on a crowded street corner in Kingsbridge.

A man miraculously survived being shoved out a third-floor window of a Van Nest building Monday night, authorities said.

Last week I happened to be in The Bronx and decided to pay a visit to a local tattoo shop and take pictures of some amazing graffiti on its facade.

Judge, it is high time to step up and act like a superhero and fight crime where it lives - it's time to lock up Anthony Marshall.

Joe Conzo has a report card from 1972 that says, 'Joe Conzo is excelling in photography.'

None of the Democratic candidates for mayor has a plan for the city schools other than not being Mike Bloomberg.

Justo Santos pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and weapons possession. He was ordered to be held without bail.

New York Magazine's Steve Fishman has a comprehensive profile of former Assemblyman Nelson Castro in this week's issue, which is on newsstands today.

It is known as the "Papa Smurf" case - the prosecution of a reputed Mafia figure with the warm and fuzzy nickname of a popular, blue cartoon character.

A married man living a "double life" bludgeoned his girlfriend to death yesterday and then killed himself in her Upper West Side apartment, cops said.

A young Irishman who came to the city to work for the summer was killed by a hit-and-run driver in The Bronx early yesterday, and his body was then stuffed into the back of a city Medical Examiner's Office van - next to grimy bags of recyclable bottles.

Speeding vehicles kill more people in Brooklyn than in any other borough, according to research by a transportation advocacy group.

An adorable 9-year-old girl was shot in The Bronx - the third time in a month that an innocent child was caught in the crossfire, police said yesterday.

Joseph Morabito, 54, was among three New Yorkers gunned down on June 8 by an Afghan soldier they were training.

Flamboyant private-equity CEO Lynn Tilton , known for her platinum -blond hair and low-cut dresses, was praised by a federal judge last week as a prize witness in her case against bond insurer MBIA.

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