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Story of the Day: A Bronx Underground Rock Scene Emerges
In a Throgs Neck church basement, the seeds of a Bronx rock movement are taking root. A decade ago, a trio of young Bronx musicians and music lovers – Dave Rose, Anita Colby and Adam Fachler – made a simple observation about their borough’s music scene: It sucked. So they decided to build one themselves, creating Bronx Underground to put on and promote rock concerts in a borough identified as the birthplace of hip hop. For a few years, they used venues on City Island and other east Bronx locales until finding a permanent home at First Lutheran Church, near Country Club, where a growing list of bands are finding a fan base. Marc Makowski, an assistant music director at Sony, compared the scene to England in the 1960s. “Just like the Beatles,” he told a writer for NY Press, “one band is going to break out and the rest will follow.” Here’s a 2009 clip from A Moment’s Worth, one of the Bronx Underground-grown bands that could blow up:

Quick Hits:
We knew City Island’s Engine 53 firehouse was on the chopping block, but now, after the mayor released the list of firehouses slated for closure, we know that two other Bronx firehouses could be gone as well: Engine 46 at 460 Cross Bronx Expressway (Mt. Hope) and Engine 60 at 341 East 143rd Street (Mott Haven).

In response to the investigation into widespread ticket-fixing by Bronx cops, the NYPD announced it will form a unit dedicated to preventing it from happening in the future.

While eight Bronx schools got a reprieve from closure and will be “re-started” with independent oversight, the teacher’s union is suing the city to stop other schools, including the Bronx’s John F. Kennedy High School, from being closed.