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Bronx Streets Get NYCDOT Makeover

Pedestrians, residents, and cyclists in the Pelham Garden section of the Bronx will have safer streets this summer as a result of a new NYCDOT design. After two senior citizens were killed in traffic incidents and three people suffered serious injuries, the DOT conducted a study of busy sections of Allerton Ave. and Eastchester Road in the East Bronx.
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[Education] Bronx Graduate Earns Fulbright Flwshp

Congratulating the three members of The University of Scranton’s class of 2009 who were awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships to countries in Asia, Europe and Africa....
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[Education] Amber Coleman Received Honors

Recent graduate Amber Coleman of Bronx, NY, received Honors during her final semester at Brooks School in North Andover, MA. ...
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[Local] Bronx Man Charged With Housing Fraud

A Bronx man faxes up to four years in prison for allegedly directing a fraudulent scheme to obtain subsidized apartments for unqualified tenants....
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[Society] Bronx Forum On Immigration Fraud

Representatives from Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's Office held a public forum on the topic of Immigration Services Fraud and the Unauthorized Practice of Law at the Bronx Lebanon Hospital on Tuesday, June 30th....
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[Science] Einstein Dean Appointed By Governor David Paterson

Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., The Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has been appointed by Governor David Paterson to the Empire State Stem Cell Board Funding Committee....
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[U.S.A.] Bronx Man Strips On US Airways Flight

An US Airways flight made an emergency landing in Albuquerque, NM on Tuesday after a passenger decided to strip naked....
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[Local] Bronx Factory Ordered To Rehire

The Stella D’Oro Biscuit Company factory in Bronx, NY, where 134 workers on strike since last August have been replaced, must reinstate the workers and pay them wages with interest going back to last August....
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[Local] New Trains To Reduce Bronx Pollution

CSX Transportation (CSXT) unveiled on Monday four ultra-low emission GenSet locomotives to operate full-time at its Oak Point Yard in Bronx, New York, just hours after becoming the first major transportation provider to announce a voluntary emissions reduction plan....
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[Music] Hydra Mgt. Signs Label Distribution Deal

Roy Brown, CEO of the Bronx based HyDra Management, LLC, and Real To Reel Film Productions, LLC has confirmed that HyDra Management has reached an agreement in principal with Select Records to distribute their newly formed Record Label HyDra Management Records world wide!...
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Bronx Man Strips On US Airways Flight

An US Airways flight made an emergency landing in Albuquerque, NM on Tuesday after a passenger decided to strip naked.
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Obama Appoints Marc Sternberg + 14

The White House announced today the appointment of 15 outstanding men and women to serve as White House Fellows. Among them is Bronx Lab School's Founder and Principal, Marc Sternberg. The 2009-2010 class of White House Fellows represents a diverse cross-section of professions including medicine, business, media, education, non-profit and state government, as well as two branches of the U.S. military. The 2009-2010 class of Fellows and their biographies are included below.
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Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

The King of Pop is dead at 50.
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Letter To President Obama

As the media have widely reported, President Obama is meeting with Congressional leaders today to discuss immigration reform. Here is a letter from National Latino Congreso urging the President to move forward on reform.
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Mrs. Global America US 2010

On Friday night in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Marisa Thomas became the new Mrs. Global America US 2010. She was crowned by Laurel Shaler who was the 2009 Mrs. Global America US.
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Vernacular Politics: Islamists’ Clout In Turkey

Turkey’s experiment as a secular, westernized state represents not only an anomaly, but the prototype of secular modernization in the Middle East. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder the Turkish Republic in 1923, embarked on a series of social and political reforms, abolishing Islamic institutions, positions, and insignia to secure Turkey’s position as a modern democracy.
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Open Letter To The President

Please publish my letter in your paper. I have sent it to Mr.Obama and have not gotten an answer hopefully people will read it and respond to me and maybe Obama will too thank you.
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Joel R. Rivera Announces Candidacy

Bronx county courthouse steps, New York May 27, 2009: with the support of a vociferous group of supporters around him chanting “Si se puede and yes we can”, Joel R. Rivera announced his candidacy for the recently vacated seat in the 77 assembly district. Among the many supporters were; religious, business, community leaders and members of the community-at-large.
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Major Aid Deployment To Pakistan

International disaster relief charity ShelterBox is dispatching urgently needed aid to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis in Pakistan where hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the fighting between the army and militants in the north west of the country.
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Sotomayor: A Bronx Star Shines

President Obama today nominated federal judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York for the Supreme Court, positioning the longtime federal jurist to become the first Latino and only the third woman on the nation's highest court.
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Raymond J. Keating

Raymond J. Keating is the editor and publisher of the Keating Reports, which operates the Long Island Sentinel. He is a writer, commentator and economist, who wrote a column for Newsday for more than a decade, and is now a columnist with Long Island Business News and Dolan Media Company. The views expressed by Keating are strictly his own.