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Bronx Hoops Star Kemba Walker Declares for NBA Draft

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Bronx boy Kemba Walker, the charismatic point guard who led the University of Connecticut men’s basketball team an an extraordinary run to Big East and NCAA Tournament titles, announced today he will skip his senior season and enter the NBA draft.The decision came as no surprise to many observers who watched Walker, who is on pace to graduate a year early in May, emerge this year as one of the most dynamic offensive players in college basketball. He averaged 23.5 points per game, good for fifth in the nation.”I just think it’s the right time for me to go to the NBA,” Walker said at a press conference Tuesday, according to USA Today. “It’s a happy day, but a sad day because I am leaving my brothers.”Walker, who grew up in Soundview and attended IS 174, wrote a diary during the tournament for the Daily News.

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Bronx Events: A Lunchtime Concert April 14 at North Central Bronx Hospital

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Concert at NCBH Ad_Norwood News(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();Here’s the rest of our calendar of Bronx events …Editor’s note: What did we miss? Send details to bronxnewsnetwork[at]gmail.com.

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60 Budget Fixes from the Independent Budget Office

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Following is a press release we just received from the Independent Budget Office, a nonpartisan city agency, announcing a report that looks at 60 ways to cut spending or increase revenue to plug the hole in the city’s budget. We thought it was worth reprinting here. We’d love to hear your suggestions, too, on where the city might find some untapped revenue, and where it can cut. So comment away. Here’s the release …

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Bronx News Roundup, Tuesday, April 12

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Weather: Light rain is expected here in the Bronx sometime after noon, with temperatures dropping into the 40s as night falls on our lovely borough. To the news!Story of the Day: Kazimiroff Boulevard Re-Renamed It is said that Dr. Theodore L. Kazimiroff, a jack of many trades (dentist, naturalist, Indiana Jones wannabe) and the Bronx’s first historian, once removed a tooth from a lion’s mouth in the Bronx Zoo. He had become such a legendary borough figure that, just a year after his death in 1980, a section of the winding road that runs from East Fordham Road to Allerton Avenue and cuts between the New York Botanical Garden and Fordham University was remaned Dr. Theodore L. Kazimiroff Boulevard.For years, the Garden and Fordham complained that the new street name confused drivers who wanted access to its institutions. (Current Bronx historian Lloyd Ultan was skeptical about this claim). In any case, they finally got their way Monday when Mayor Bloomberg signed into law a bill, sponsored by Bronx City Councilman Oliver Koppell, renaming the street Southern Boulevard, as it was known before it took on Kazimiroff as its namesake.