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The jazz band Alma Micic Quartet takes the stage at the South Riverdale Block Festival in 2016. Sponsored by Kingsbridge Riverdale Van Cortlandt Development Corp., this year’s Johnson Avenue block party was cancelled just ahead of its Sept. 16 date, just days after state Sen. Jeffrey Klein’s primary loss.
Cash shortfall sinks popular street fair
It was supposed to happen last weekend, but all of a sudden, it didn’t. more
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A Mister Softee truck driver calling himself Victor Emmanuel hands a vanilla cone with rainbow sprinkles to a customer on the corner of West 231st Street and Broadway. While Kingsbridge is among the city’s top neighborhoods for ice cream truck jingle-related noise complaints, several customers who stopped by Emmanuel’s truck Sept. 14 say the tune never really bothered them.
To some a delightful diversion, to others a noisy nuisance
Parts of Kingsbridge are among the city’s top areas for noise complaints from ice cream truck jingles. more
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A worker clears out felled branches littering a vacant lot located at 5437 Fieldston Road. Residents have complained about the neglected land — strewn with garbage and overrun with stray animals — for years.
Clean-up begins at site of ‘spy house’
A pair of workers cloaked in yellow hooded ponchos gazed over the mini wasteland, a filthy patch of leafy urban squalor — a space some neighbors say has suffered far too long from neglect. more
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Two park workers charged with playground beatdown
Police arrested two on-duty city parks employees Sunday afternoon, accusing them of beating up a man for allegedly urinating in a park. more
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The Hebrew Home at Riverdale has faced significant pushback with its plans to build a continuing care retirement community, and not even a pair of compromises could get it past Community Board 8. However, the compromise was enough for Bronx borough president Ruben Diaz Jr., who approved the application July 30.
Borough president recommends Hebrew Home expansion
The proposed expansion of the Hebrew Home at Rivedale is moving forward, but a little shorter than before. more
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Cars drive past a speed camera on Riverdale Avenue between West 256th and West 259th streets near P.S. 81. The speed camera program was set to expire July 25, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York city council restored the cameras through an executive order.
Despite senate inaction, speed cameras return to city schools
When school starts at P.S. 81 in dozens of other schools on Sept. 5, drivers need to beware: Despite the state senate failing to renew the speed camera program, a new deal between the governor's office and New York City officials have ensured the cameras stay on, for now. more
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Man in critical condition after IHOP shooting
It was more than just pancakes as usual during the early morning hours of Friday near the Kingsbridge IHOP. more
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Police are trying to locate these two women who they say ran from a murder scene on Broadway and West 238th Street in the early morning hours of Aug. 31.
West 238th shooting becomes precinct's fourth murder
A 22-year-old Manhattan man shot in the head overnight Friday on Broadway near West 238th Street has died. more
Two people have reportedly become sick with Legionnaires' disease at Fort Independence Houses on Bailey Avenue, although health officials have yet to declare it as an outbreak.
Legionnaires' disease hits Fort Independence Houses
They're not exactly calling it an outbreak, but two people have reportedly contracted Legionnaires' disease at Fort Independence Houses, continuing what seems to be a growing epidemic of the bacteria popping up in various New York facilities over the past year. more
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Hossnara Khaleque, manager of the Popeyes at West 231st Street, points out wet garbage in security camera footage spilling onto the street after private waste collectors allegedly hurl the bags into their truck off-screen from the early morning hours of July 23. The truck crushes the bags, Khaleque said, causing them to rupture, sending a vile river of chicken bones, batter and even vegetable scraps cascading toward Broadway.
Eatery’s trash leads commuters to trash talk eatery
Stepping off the 1 train at West 231st Street and Broadway, that unmistakable, wafting scent of grease and spice beckons — crispy thighs, piquant wings, flaky biscuits. more
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