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Sallie Caldwell, a Tracey Towers resident and a pillar of the community in Norwood and Bedford Park, passed away on Wednesday morning, June 7. She was 84. more
Anthony “Tony” Creaney passed away peacefully on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. He was 93. He was born in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, before emigrating to New York City and … more
Just more than a week before an infant died and three other children were hospitalized for drug poisoning at a Kingsbridge Heights day center, a New York City agency gave the center a clean bill of health. more
Sarah Gund died unexpectedly but peacefully in a Boston hospital on the evening of Aug. 17, 2023 after suffering an aneurysm. She was surrounded by her husband, her children and grandchildren, step-children and their children, and some beloved friends. She was 81. more
It is with great sadness that the Strain family announces the passing of James Joseph Strain on Aug. 1, 2023, after a life full of integrity, creativity, service, and love. He was 90. more
George Gutierrez had a knack for catching people at their most truest of moments. And more often than not, it involved tears. more
Margaret Donato, a former chair of the Community Board 8 Public Safety Committee who lived in Kingsbridge, passed away in hospice on Jan. 11, 2024, at Calvary Hospital following a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 74. more
Mary Tait Seibert Goldschmid died on the day she was ready — Jan. 12, 2024 — and by the means she chose — a physician-accompanied suicide at Dignitas in Zurich, Switzerland, one of the few places in the world where Americans with advanced Parkinson’s can go to get a suicide that is painless, dignified, and legal.  She was 76. more
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever,” — Alfred Lord Tennyson Those words from the famous English poet could be part of John McKeon’s legacy. “Our family is very sad to share that our wonderful John, AKA “Johnny Flowers,” passed away on Jan. 23, 2024,” the family stated. more
It was a little after 4 p.m. on July 1, 1971, when Bill Schleicher walked into the 43rd Street office of The New York Times, carrying a camera and extra rolls of film. more
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