One Bronx man’s entrepreneurial dream of bringing subs and strippers together under one roof has finally been crushed by a federal judge. It wasn’t the timeless “sandwiches and lapdances” concept that got owner Anthony "Cousin Vinny" Agnello in trouble, but rather his appropriation of Subway brand wrappers and menus for his hybrid venture on East Tremont Avenue, which he described in a flier published by Gawker in May: During the day, it is an extraordinary......

Around 1:20 a.m. this morning, a fire broke out in a Parkchester apartment building. One resident told WCBS 2, "There was a gentleman running down the street yelling fire and [telling] everybody to get out. I heard the blast - the windows when they blew out. I was already in bed." Two teens and one boy, all of whom had been sleeping, were rescued from the apartment where the fire originated and were taken to......

Photograph of Yankee Stadium during yesterday's All-Star batting practice by Frank Franklin II /AP While columnists, TV commentators and many others are falling over themselves to bid Yankee Stadium a respectful, sentimental good-bye, players were a little more honest when asked what they wouldn't miss about the house that Ruth built. The NY Times spoke to a number of visiting players, who offered these reasons it was easy to say good-bye: “The smell,” “The......

Van Cort, the 6-month-old coyote pup found in the Bronx on Wednesday, is still looking for a home. Well, actually the folks at Animal Care & Control are: The AC&C tells the Post, "We are in the process of reaching out to some other organizations to see what the best course of action would be" for the coyote's next chapter of life. Apparently the pup may need to be "taught such essential coyote skills as......

A 24-year-old former library assistant at the fancy Riverdale Country School in the Bronx is suing the city and several police officers over a case of mistaken email identity that landed him in jail for 30 hours and left him publicly disgraced. The trouble started last year after William Hallowell sent a resignation email to Robin Bernsen, the head librarian at the school. She replied sympathetically, according to the Times, and Hallowell moved on with......

Yesterday, we mentioned that a coyote was spotted near the Horace Mann School in the Bronx. It turns out the coyote was a pup of about 6 months. Animal Care and Control took the little fella to its Manhattan facility and nicknamed the 9-pound coyote "Van Cort," since he was near Van Cortlandt Park. A specialist told the Post, "My guess would be that he was part of a litter. Maybe it was hunting and......

A Bronx neighborhood was outraged last month when a building's mural memorializing 9/11 and a local firefighter who was killed at the World Trade Center was tagged by a graffiti artist. The tagger painted his initials directly over the face of Peter Bielfeld. Tips eventually led police to arrest 16-year-old Avery Prince, who goes by the tag SIPS and has since apologized for defacing the mural. Artist Eddie Gonzalez has since restored Bielfeld's face......

After years of planning, the MTA has re-launched bus service along the Bx12 route, which travels through the Bronx and Upper Manhattan. A NYC Transit director for bus service planning, Ted Orosz, tells the NY Times, "It looks cooler, it’s faster, it will run a little more frequently. All those things should increase ridership.” The new "Select Bus Service" initiative includes more buses (up to ten more during peak hours), new designs on the outside......

On the heels of announcing 40% of New Yorkers practice unsafe sex, the Department of Health wants to test every adult in the Bronx for HIV over the next three years. Noting the borough's highest AIDS-related death rate in the city, Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Frieden said, "The Bronx has the opportunity to lead the city in the fight against HIV/AIDS by being the first borough to have all residents tested." The health department hopes......

Fresh from attending the Bronx Food and Arts Festival on Sunday, Dave Cook of the highly recommended food site Eating in Translation reports that Hunts Point barbecue rig Mo Gridder’s – famous for its St. Louis cut smoked rib platter served in the parking lot of an auto center – is moving into its very first restaurant space without axles. Owner Fred Donnelly will open Mo Gridder’s II in the Belmont Section of the Bronx,......

Photograph of Hillary Clinton at Pelham Preparatory Academy's commencement by Tina Fineberg/AP Senator Hillary Clinton made good on a promise to a supporter and girl she considers her "goddaughter" and spoke at her high school graduation from Pelham Preparatory Academy, in a ceremony at Fordham University. Aleatha Williams and her mother have volunteered for Clinton's presidential campaign, plus her 2000 (when Alethea was 10!) and 2006 Senate campaigns. When she graduated middle school, Alethea......

One teenager has been arrested and police are seeking a second suspect in the murder of a 25-year-old man shot to death following a minor traffic accident in the Bronx. Adolfo Gonzalez was shot twice in the chest early Saturday morning, after he got into a fender bender with two other vehicles. Two cars were reportedly simultaneously making u-turns around 5 a.m. Saturday morning near White Plains Road and Morris Park Ave. in the Bronx.......

The ex-girlfriend of a 49-year-old Bronx woman is suspected of murdering her former lesbian companion after the victim was found stabbed to death in her bathtub. Cecelia Rodriguez had recently been kicked out of the pair's Bronx apartment after the breakup, but reportedly was distraught when she heard the news of Olga Rodriguez's death. The landlord who discovered Rodriguez's body was skeptical of the histrionics. "She was acting-crying. The crying was not real. "[The victim]......

A tractor trailer stopped in the Bronx turned out to be carrying $16 million in cocaine. Apparently $16 million in cocaine is equal to 400 pounds, as that's how much the authorities confiscated. NY Drug Enforcement Task Force searched the vehicle at a Bruckner Boulevard parking lot. The Post reports that the investigators, "convinced that drugs were stashed in the vehicle, borrowed an X-ray machine from Homeland Security." And they were right, because after......

Police arrested an 18-year-old suspect in the punch-grab-and-run mugging of a 62-year-old woman in front of the Catholic school where she is a teacher. Patricia McGowan was approached by a young man in front of the Good Shepherd School before 7 a.m. this past Monday, who then shoved her against the school's front gate and then punched her hard in the face, knocking McGowan to the ground. Surveillance tapes captured the whole attack on tape,......

A tiny Boston Terrier named Ginger was literally ripped right off its owner's leash yesterday and sucked into the moving parts of a Dept. of Sanitation street sweeper. Robert Machin was getting into his car parked on the side of a street in the Soundview section of the Bronx. The door of his Honda Civic was still open and Machin was in the process of moving his dogs into the car, when witnesses said that......

An off-duty corrections officer was reportedly shot four times in what WABC 7 calls "an apparent gunfight with several men." The officer had been walking home around 1:45 a.m. and the shooting occurred at 1791 Walton, at East 175th Street. The officer was found by police, who had responded to a 911 call about gunfire--witnesses told WNBC "they heard as many as a dozen shots ring out." The victim, who may have also fired, had......

The NY Yankees has reportedly asked city for $350 million more in public financing for its new stadium. The $1.3 billion project is currently under construction, and the urgency for additional funds in the form of tax-free bonds ranges from Assemblyman Richard Brodsky saying "the Yankees said they couldn't complete the Stadium without additional financing" to the NYC Economic Development Corporation president saying the Yankees are just making "informal inquiries." An NYC EDC spokesperson......

A 6-year-old girl was killed after a car struck her while she was playing in an open fire hydrant last night. A witness said, "She was running across the street, and the car just hit her, and it dragged her up the street." Police were going through eyewitnesses accounts about what vehicle hit Mimah Bangoura: Some say it was a minivan that fled East 166th Street between Sherman and Sheridan Avenues, while others say it......

A man died while trying to flee the dozens of federal agents who raided a heroin mill in a Castle Hill apartment. The man jumped from a 9th floor balcony to a 6th floor balcony, but "slammed his head against a sixth-floor railing." Two other women who tried to make the same jump were hospitalized. Eleven other people tried to flee as well, but were eventually captured. They jumped down to other balconies, and one......

The other weekend saw the opening of Moore in America: Monumental Sculpture at the New York Botanical Garden. The exhibit features twenty-one of Henry Moore's giant biomorphic sculptures placed at well considered locations across the garden grounds. Moore meant for his sculptures to be part of a landscape, where they could be seen from many perspectives as the light and scenery changes throughout the seasons. Ongoing at the garden is Darwin's Garden: An Evolutionary......

The legal fortunes of Darryl Barnes have waxed and waned over the many years since he was shot by a police officer on a Bronx street--a wound that left him paralyzed--but finally ended for good this week. Darryl Barnes was shot in 1988 by NYPD Officer Franz Jerome, who apparently saw Mr. Barnes running down the street carrying a Tec-9 assault pistol. When Jerome ordered Barnes to stop, Barnes shot at the policeman, who returned......

An attempted mugging proved fatal for the attacker late yesterday evening, as a man followed a woman and her three-year-old child into their building shortly before midnight Saturday. The mugger apparently did not know that the pair's husband and father was a NYPD officer who was off-duty at the time. When the man attacked the woman and brandished a gun after they get off the elevator on the 3rd floor, the mother screamed. Her husband......

Photograph of old Yankee Stadium and new Yankee Stadium (taken in June 2007) by Urch on Flickr While many people are excited about the opening of the new Yankee Stadium, many residents who live near the stadium have been unhappy about the delays in replacing the park land used for the new venue. According to the NY Times, costs to reate eight smaller parks have escalated to almost twice the $95 million budget to......

William Davila surrendered to the police this afternoon, three days after his estranged wife was found stabbed to death in the front of his car on the Lower East Side. The body of Leonida Davila, 39, was found shortly before midnight Tuesday evening in parking garage on Delancey and Essex Streets. She was wrapped in a blanket and handcuffed, with multiple stab wounds to the head, neck, and chest. Davila, who was convicted of attempted......

A Greyhound bus' roof was sheared off when the driver ignored signs about an overpass that was lower than the bus' height. Passenger William Tedeschi said, "All that we heard was a big rip coming from the front to the back. I thanked God I was alive -- I was so scared." The bus was stuck at the overpass on the Henry Hudson Parkway around West 252nd Street. Six passengers were injured by the debris;......

The Kingsbridge Amory in the Bronx has stood as a colossal unused edifice in the Bronx for years. The City recently negotiated with development group The Related Companies to transform the building into a commercial mall. Some residents are unhappy that a piece of their neighborhood with a lot of potential is being sold out from under them. Members of the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance would like to meet with the head of The Related......

Now that Carlos Cruz is sitting on Rikers Island, charged with paying $1,000 to have his cousin murder his ex-girlfriend in front of their son, the remorse is flowing. Cruz gave a jailhouse interview to the Daily News, "It wasn't supposed to happen like that. I was just trying to scare her." Cops say that Cruz held Chelsea Frazier by the hair, so his cousin could get good clean stationary shots at her torso as......

Police officials said that murder suspect Carlos Cruz told them was upset his on-off girlfriend was seeing other people, setting into motion a plan to kill her on a deserted Bronx street. Cruz allegedly said of Chelsea Frazier, "She was lying about what she was doing and she betrayed me." Cruz, who grew up in the Bronx, enlisted the help of his cousin Devon Miller to shoot Frazier on Sunday afternoon and stage it as......

Families of a murder victim and her ex-fiance are reeling from the revelation the ex-fiance and his cousin were behind the killing. Carlos Cruz, 36, admitted to paying his cousin $1,000 to kill his 18-year-old girlfriend, Chelsea Frazier, on a deserted Bronx street and stage it to look like a robbery, all in front of their 1-year-old son. Cruz, Frazier, and their son had traveled from Massachusetts to the Bronz, to visit Cruz's family and......