The taxpayer-funded Bronx health clinic robbed of hundreds of thousands of dollars by ex-State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. is hanging by a thread. Soundview has provided low-cost health care to thousands of South Bronx residents for years, but since Espada and his son Pedro G. have been on trial, it's drastically cut services and even stopped paying the malpractice insurance for its physicians. Fortunately Soundview still has enough cash to pay the Espadas' legal fees! But now the state Department of Health has moved in to shut it down, and it may cease operating completely. more ›

[Update below] We guess it was an hour before request-a-stop kicks in, but still! Last night a 29-year-old MTA bus driver was arrested by the NYPD for not letting a passenger off his bus. Seriously. Driver Michael Luca is now facing charges of resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and unlawful imprisonment. more ›

Earlier this month New York Magazine ran an interesting cover story on Ray Kelly and the NYPD that pointed out that while New Yorkers seem to really love the Police Commissioner, the same does not seem to be true of many police officers. To prove the point author Chris Smith quoted ex-cop and head of Police Organization Providing Peer Assistance (POPPA) Bill Genet noting that "We had this unusual four suicides in two months. The rubber band is being pulled mighty thin." Sadly, we now need to make that five. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] A motorist behind the wheel of a white BMW SUV killed a cyclist in the Bronx yesterday evening just after 7 p.m. Police say, the victim, 18-year-old David Oliveras, was riding his bike on the sidewalk on the east side of the Williamsbridge Road, headed south. According to a preliminary investigation, Oliveras tried to cross over to the west side of Williamsbridge Road when he was hit by the SUV driver, who was headed north. more ›

Residents of Concourse Village in the Bronx say cops randomly arrested bystanders in a massive sweep of an apartment building after bottles were thrown from the roof at police officers Saturday. A massive police presence surrounded the building around 6 p.m., as a crowd of some 50 people gathered outside, according to DNAinfo. Witnesses and those arrested say police indiscriminately pepper-sprayed and arrested innocent bystanders, including an eighth grade boy and a mother who said she was pepper-sprayed and arrested while trying to keep her children out of it. more ›

Elevators, not the safest place these days? Between flame attacks, horrible accidents, electrocutions and now snapped cables—suddenly the stairs never looked better. Last night a 17-year-old boy in the Bronx survived after the cable holding the elevator he was on snapped, sending him plummeting six stories! "His body flew to the ceiling like he was in a rocket," the boy's godmother told the News. more ›

Two men are dead after fatal shootings in Crown Heights and downtown Brooklyn last night, and several others were left wounded by shootings and stabbings after a particularly violent night. Gunfire broke out just before 8 p.m. at the corner of Prospect Place and Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights. First responders found 18-year-old Daquan Weston bleeding from gunshot wounds to the lower torso, and rushed him to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced DOA. A second victim, age 15, was also shot in the leg and is listed in stable conditions. No arrests were made. more ›

Raccoons have been slowly taking over the city for years now—they're in our libraries, they're in our brownstones, they're shopping at John Varvatos, and perhaps the most unsettling and transparent in their mission to take over humankind: they've invaded City Hall. And now some new footage from Joey Boots shows that they're no longer scared of humans, either—check out what happened last night in the Bronx: more ›

The word "Coon" was written in cement twice in front of the Fordham University church on the school's Bronx campus, the first one appearing sometime in the fall of 2010. Last month, the n-word was scrawled in permanent black marker on a student's dormitory door, and a gay slur was written in a stairwell on the school's campus by Lincoln Center. And the n-word was also etched onto sheet rock in a bathroom stall on the Bronx campus last week. Oh, and last Halloween a white student prepared to go out for Halloween in blackface, before being confronted by another student. more ›

A Bronx cop has been suspended by the NYPD after being accused of fondling a woman's butt and crotch and then punching her in the face at a nightclub this weekend. Officer Melvin Thomas, 33, was off-duty at the time of the alleged incident, which occurred at the Eros Lounge around 4 a.m. Sunday morning. He maintains it wasn't just him making trouble though—and he's got the shiner to prove it. more ›

Some people will never once in their life be arrested. Some people will get collared once or twice. And then there are people like 36-year-old Johnny Morgan of the Bronx. On Monday Morgan was arrested by the police for the 74th time. more ›

Former IMF head and the Sofitel's most infamous guest Dominique Strauss-Kahn is under investigation by authorities in his native country for his involvement in a prostitution ring. BBC News reports that authorities have summoned him for questioning next week, and he can be detained for as long as 48 hours. more ›

An Iraq war veteran was caught amassing "a small arsenal" in his Bronx residence, including handmade improvised explosive devices [IEDs], grenades, four firearms, and several rounds of ammunition, according to an indictment unsealed yesterday. 24-year-old Anthony Cibelli served tours of duty in Iraq in 2006 and 2008, and was discharged from active duty in 2010. Prosecutors say he stole two grenades and other weapons that were the property of the United States military, and taught himself how to build the IEDs by watching instructional videos, and did not intend to use them. Hey, everyone ought to have a hobby! more ›

Not so fast, Fresh Direct! Last week the Governor, the Mayor and the online grocery store were happily talking up their $130 million deal to move the company's homebase from Long Island City to the Bronx (as opposed to New Jersey). But a funny thing happened on the way to the getting approval—the neighbors started chiming in. And they aren't happy! more ›

Lawyers representing the Bronx teen who was seen being beaten by cops in a widely circulated video are demanding a special investigator take over the probe. more ›

Though for a second it looked like it might move to New Jersey, the popular grocery delivery service Fresh Direct is staying in town. Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg and Bronx Beep Ruben Diaz Jr. today announced that, thanks to some hefty financial incentives from the city, state and borough, FD is moving from Long Island City to the Bronx. And it's planning on adding 1,000 jobs or so in the next few years to boot. more ›

The MTA is taking seriously a proposal to bring Metro-North and 28,000 more commuters to Penn Station. Trains on the Hudson and New Haven lines would use existing Amtrak lines to service the West Side, but the LIRR would be forced to cut some service to make room for Metro-North, a move that advocates for the plan say is only fair given that the LIRR will serve Grand Central in 2018. Naturally, some (read: Long Islanders) are skeptical. "It's the old saying," the executive director for the Association for a Better Long Island tells Newsday. "Once it's gone, it's gone forever." Yet this assertion was famously disproved by the McRib and the Mickey Rourke Accords of 2005. more ›

For the third time in a week, an NYPD officer has shot and killed a suspect. Yesterday an unidentified officer killed 18-year-old Ramarley Graham with a single bullet to the chest. The officer, a member of the narcotics unit, had chased Graham into his home, seen him flush something down a toilet and reportedly saw him make "furtive" movements, apparently prompting the cop to fire. Graham—who lived with his mother, grandmother and 6-year-old brother—was immediately mourned by family and neighbors. "Nobody deserves to get shot like that, in your own house," his bereaved mother, Constance Malcolm, cried to reporters. more ›

The Bronx D.A. and NYPD Internal Affairs are investigating officers caught on video beating a Bronx teenager during a drug arrest on Thursday. NY1 is first with the story, and reports that Jatiek Reed, 19, was arrested last week on charges of robbery, possession of marijuana and crack cocaine and assaulting a police officer. This video shows part of the arrest, with police beating Reed with batons and kicking him as he lies on his side on the sidewalk: more ›

Last year unemployed Bronx doorman Alexis Rodriguez was hospitalized with pneumonia for three weeks at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital. And last week he received the bill: $44,776,587 for outpatient services. But hey, they saved his life—can you really put a price on that? "I almost had an asthma attack," Rodriguez, 28, tells the Daily News. Careful, man; Bronx-Lebanon charges $10 million for inhalers. more ›

Did you know that the Tenenbaum family summered in the Bronx? Their home on Eagle's Island was, in real life, at 21 Tier Street on City Island. That's right, just about 12 miles from their home on 339 Convent Avenue is where little Chazzy got that BB lodged in between his knuckles. more ›

Looks like the city is going to let Donald Trump build himself a PGA-regulation golf course in the Bronx. Cool, right? Our billionaire mayor loves golf. But, wait, there is a catch. The Parks Department if giving The Donald a 20-year deal to run the course at the $184 Ferry Point complex on the Throggs Neck waterfront...and is charging him nothing for the first four years. To paraphrase Geoffrey Croft of NYC Park Advocates, Trump will be paying less than a hotdog vendor in Manhattan to run a $125-per-weekend-game course (compared to $36-per-game at other city courses). more ›

Yesterday someone Tweeted this photo of a giant monster rat, supposedly discovered at a Foot Locker in the Bronx. You might recognize this guy, as he bears a striking resemblance to the 3-foot-long beast that was stabbed with a pitchfork in Brooklyn last year. That one was believed to be a Gambian pouched rat, and may have been someone's escaped pet. However, it wasn't the first one spotted in that area, and locals believed they were multiplying faster than Gremlins taking a bath. more ›

Cops in the Bronx got a break last night after a 16-year-old chose to shoot a 19-year-old man multiple times early this morning directly outside of a police precinct. The shots were fired just after 1:25 a.m., according to the NYPD, and the perp was nabbed soon after. more ›

The NYPD is investigating a possible hate crime at the Parks Department's Bronx headquarters, where a black baby doll was found hanging by a metal chain noose yesterday morning. Geoffrey Croft at NYC Park Advocates reports that the 15 inch doll was discovered by a sixty-year-old black male Parks Department employee who had just returned to work from being out sick. One Parks employee tells Croft the man was traumatized and "looked like he was going to have a stroke." Three KKKs were also found scratched in a unisex bathroom on the first floor, sources tell Croft. more ›

Angela Jewth is living a parent's nightmare. Her only son, 9-year-old Jonathan, died Wednesday—nine days after a choking incident at his Bronx school left him clinging to life in the hospital. Now she is getting ready to sue the city to find out why it appears nobody at P.S. 47 knew how to properly clear the healthy boy's airways of a rogue meatball. "If something had been done differently, my son would've been alive today," Jewth told the Daily News. more ›

Pepper spraying isn't just for nonchalant cops and Wal-Mart shoppers, it's fun for ALL ages! A 15-year-old girl allegedly pepper sprayed over a dozen people in the cafeteria of a Bronx high school today, shortly before 1 p.m. The NYPD press office didn't have any information for us about the incident, but a source tells NBC New York that 15 students were treated at the scene and about four to five were taken to the hospital. Now we just have to wait for a photo of the teen to be released so we can get cracking on the next fun Photoshop meme. more ›