Fans of BronxTalk should know that there was a flood at Bronxnet today and so we couldn’t do a live edition of the show. We’ll be running reruns all week and will have a live show next Monday.
Another Bronx post office – the Oak Point Station, located at 839 East 149th St. – is going to close.
Hopefully you are reading this on a laptop or iPad/Phone in Van Cortlandt or Crotona or Soundview or Pelham Bay or Roberto Clemente or Williamsbridge Oval or any one of the Bronx’s many parks. And if you’re not, hopefully you’ll get to one later today as temperatures will soar into the 70s! Less warm over the weekend, but it will still remain jarringly comfortable.
D’Adamo at his desk at the 52nd Precinct in early 2010.New York City precinct commanders, by rule, don’t stay in their jobs long – two, maybe three years, tops. Then, they move on. It’s an unofficial policy the NYPD employs to avoid stagnation or possible corruption.On Monday, however, the commanding officer of the 52n Precinct, Deputy Inspector John D’Adamo was replaced less than 17 months after taking over the job and less than a month after his wife was caught lying to Clarkstown police about being attacked, a story that made headlines in the city and upstate. The 40-year-old D’Adamo – a rising star in the NYPD who took on his first commanding role as head of the 50th Precinct in 2008 at the age of 37 – will be replaced by Deputy Inspector Joseph Dowling, formerly the commanding officer of Manhattan’s 33rd Precinct, which covers Washington Heights. On Tuesday night, Dowling introduced himself at Community Board 7’s general board meeting at Scott Towers in Bedford Park.
As we mentioned in yesterday’s news roundup, the Bronx Museum of the Arts is holding a really cool free storytelling event tonight, “Bronx Talks: Bronx Stories,” starting at 6 p.m. Here’s the write-up in the Daily News about it. Find more Bronx events going on tonight and this weekend below and every day by clicking on our “Bronx Events” calendar, which is updated constantly. Enjoy the weather and the Bronx. Editor’s note: What did we miss? Send details to bronxnewsnetwork[at]gmail.com.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Bronx. Enjoy the beautiful sunny, 60s-ish day. Everyone deserves it after enduring that slog of a winter. (If you’re of age and find yourself getting thirsty later, see our post on the borough’s best Irish bars.
Bronx boy Kemba Walker has UConn dancing.Today marks the beginning of the best four-day stretch in all of sports: the opening two rounds of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Nothing compares to the drama of the Big Dance. Every game – there are 16 today, 16 more tomorrow and another 16 over the weekend – is a dogfight. Every game contains potential for heroism and heartbreak. It’s 18- to 22-year-old kids playing the biggest games of their lives.
It’s been exactly one year since our good friend and colleague Megan Charlop (she was a good friend and colleague of many, many people) died in a tragic accident while biking to PS 55 to plan a summer camp fair. From what I can recall it was a gorgeous pre-spring day much like today. She is still deeply missed but we are glad to bring you this report from the Norwood News about her incredible work in public and community health and those that seek to continue it.
Rain today in the Bronx will supposedly give way to sunshine tomorrow. To the news!Story of the Day: Bronx Bus Crash Story ContinuesFederal investigators met yesterday with Ophadell Williams, the driver of a tour bus that crashed on I-95 in the Bronx on Saturday morning, killing 15 passengers and severely injuring six others. Legal experts say Williams, an ex-con who served time for manslaughter, is unlikely to be charged with a crime unless he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs or if he demonstrated a pattern of reckless driving before the crash. The NY Times staked out the crash site, near the on-ramp to the Hutchinson River Parkway, to find tour buses passing by ever so cautiously. On Monday night, another Chinatown tour bus bound for Philadelphia crashed on the Jersey Turnpike, killing two.
Photo courtesy of the official website of the Ultimate Fighting ChampionshipBronx Councilman Joel Rivera is ready to rumble over the fate of mixed martial arts.Rivera, the Council’s majority leader, attended a rally today at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan to legalize Mixed Martial Arts in New York, one of eight states where the sport is illegal. Rivera and fellow Councilman Jumaane Williams sponsored a resolution that supports Assembly and Senate bills which would allow MMA competitions and exhibitions throughout the state.“Mixed Martial Arts has been a success in numerous markets across the United States and the World,” Rivera said in a press release. But it’s not all about the money, Rivera said, “as a sport it has proven to be as safe as or safer than boxing and other contact sports.”MMA is a legal and active sport in all but eight states. According to a study from Siena Research Institute at Siena College in Loudonville, New Yorkers are “evenly divided on legalizing mixed martial arts (MMA), known as ultimate fighting, as 39 percent favor legalization while 41 percent find it dangerous, even barbaric and would ban it.”However, one pro-MMA coalition, NY MMA Now, which is advocating for legalization in New York, criticized the Siena study, saying: “While it is true that MMA could bring needed revenue into New York, this argument is generally positioned against the opposing sentiment that mixed martial arts is too ‘dangerous, even barbaric.’”NY MMA NOW says this juxtaposition can lead some to think that the argument in favor of MMA is “Yes, MMA is barbaric, but let’s legalize it for the money.” But, “this could not be further from the reality of our sport and where supporters of our MMA stand.”
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