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 ›

Perhaps you've never stopped to consider the banana. You've never thought about how bananas, which don't grow anywhere near New York, are shipped here and ripened to the perfect shade of yellow so that Fairway or Whole Foods or that sketchy fruit vendor who's always chain smoking on the corner will buy them. But the secret life of bananas is actually quite fascinating: they're shipped in from South America and must be artificially ripened in special pressurized rooms designed to trick the fruit into thinking they're still in the tropics. Where can you find one of these rooms? Why, the Bronx, of course! more ›

The Claremont neighborhood of the Bronx has become the first neighborhood in NYC to be transformed into an idyllic "Slow Zone" by the DOT. While the department already has many 20 mph reduced speed zones on streets around schools, the Claremont slow zone is the first to cover a large swath of a neighborhood, with "gateway" signs that clearly indicate the entrance of the slow zone, and 28 new signs marking the 20 mph speed limit in and around the zone. And the zone itself is "self-enforcing," because the quarter-square-mile area comes complete with 14 speed bumps that will force maniac drivers to take it easy. more ›

What was once the Native American's Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan is now Broadway, probably the most famous thoroughfare in all the land. Stretching north from Bowling Green all the way up to Westchester, it rambles even further as U.S. 9. Perhaps inspired by all that pavement's potential, one intrepid cyclist recently picked up the trail in the Bronx and pedaled all the way down to the bottom of Manhattan, filming the entire trip. Here's the kinetic time lapse video of the adventure—be sure to stay tuned for a "terrible idea" at the 2:44 mark. more ›

Chaos erupted in an Emergency Room waiting area at a Bronx hospital last night when an unidentified man opened fire during an altercation. Details about the 7 p.m. shooting are still emerging, but witnesses say the gunman had come to the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital in search of a rival gang member he'd fought with earlier in the day. "All you heard was a ruckus," one witness tells NY1. "Next thing you heard was a pop, pop, pop, and the next thing you know, you see all these kids and everyone running back to where the doctors are." more ›

At 10:30 this morning, elected officials and neighborhood civic leaders began marching 11 miles from 181st and St. Nicholas down to Zuccotti Park, in an event dubbed "End to End for 99%" that seeks to link the communities of Northern Manhattan and the Bronx with the movement in Lower Manhattan. "Our communities have been devastated by the economic assault on middle class and poor families, even as Wall Street has enjoyed a historic financial bonanza," State Senator Adriano Espaillat said in a statement. "We're marching for jobs, we're marching for affordable housing, we're marching for the millionaire's tax," city councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez says. more ›

There are millions of different jobs in New York but here's one we hadn't really thought about before: police lineup casting director. Meet Robert Weston, a 45-year-old Bronx man who makes his living filling out the other four suspects needed when police want to have a lineup. Notoriously unreliable, police lineups may be frowned upon by many, but to Weston they are his bread and butter. He gets paid $10 or so for getting his friends and acquaintances in for a lineup—and an additional $10 if he lines up himself. He's been doing it for about 15 years. more ›

A 17-year-old boy was fatally shot near Avenue C and East 12th Street early Sunday morning, the Daily News reports. Keith Salgado was shot by unknown assailants around 1:50 a.m. and rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he died hours later. No arrests have been made, and his cousin tells the News, "We were hanging out last night and he decided to split for five minutes. In five minutes, he got shot." Police sources tell Fox 5 the shooting may have been gang-related. more ›

At least 21 deaths have been attributed to Hurricane Irene, and even though it was downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it tore through the Northeast, it still proved deadly. One fatality has been reported in the Bronx, where a 68-year-old father of 13 died while checking in on his boat at a marina Sunday morning. Police say Jose Sierra was found dead at the City Island Marina Sunday afternoon, over seven hours after he was spotted arriving at the the Sunset Marina nearby. more ›

It's Friday afternoon, so why not start your weekend with a feel-good story? RaeVaughn Gardner-Williams, an 18-year-old honor student, is shocking doctors and family members with his recovery after being nearly killed by a hit-and-run earlier this month. more ›

Police are asking the public for help in finding three young men caught on surveillance video assaulting a 64-year-old man on August 8th in the lobby of a building in Fordham Heights in the Bronx. Their victim reportedly held the door open for his assailants, who brutally assaulted him and relieved him of his money, his cell phone, and, mysteriously, his Bible. more ›

For the first time in NYC history, a street has been named for a traffic agent. Exactly three years after Donnette Sanz was killed in a tragic accident, family, friends, and NYPD officers gathered at the intersection of East 188th Street and Webster Avenue in the Bronx, which has been renamed Donnette and Sean Sanz Place. Sanz was seven months pregnant at the time of the accident, and her premature son Sean died a week later. more ›

A Select bus driver in the Bronx was a little too selective for one area mother, whose son was whisked away before she had a chance to climb aboard. The Daily News reports that Karen Wilson, 31, got quite a scare Tuesday when her 7-year-old son Rowan boarded a Bx12 Select Bus that took off without her. It's unclear exactly how the two were separated, but Wilson tells the News, "I turned around and I realized that my son wasn't standing next to me anymore, and the bus was pulling away. I ran behind the bus, waving at the driver, and he just kept going. He kept on going. I'm out of my mind now. I pull out my headset and dialed 911." more ›

The city medical examiner's office have declared the death of an ex-con at the hands of police a homicide. The Bronx man was pepper sprayed by the police when he reached for his inhaler. more ›

Months after serving a driver who later hit a teenage girl, a City Island bar is in the hot seat. According to city lawyers, who called it a public nuisance that shouldn't be allowed to do business, the Library Bar & Grill doesn't card young-looking customers. more ›