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Support Our Youth Programs!

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In honor of our internship and our youth journalism programs, here are a few videos to watch, straight from our students. Support the Bronx News Network and help us train the next generation of journalists!Geovanna Borden for BxNN from Bronx News Network on Vimeo.Andrew Boryga for BxNN from Bronx News Network on Vimeo.Alina Rodriguez for BxNN from Bronx News Network on Vimeo.John Kelly for BxNN from Bronx News Network on Vimeo.There’s only three days left until our fundraising campaign ends. Donate today!

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Bronx News Roundup, Feb. 15

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We’ll get to a few news links in a minute, but first I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about why you should click on this link right here and pledge your support to the nonprofit Bronx News Network today. You may have noticed we didn’t post a roundup yesterday. It broke my heart, but it had to be done and it was not just because I spent a large chunk of my day out on the streets delivering the Norwood News, a BxNN affiliate, in my car.We’re taking this last week of our annual fund-raising appeal to remind you why we’re here and to ask for your support in keeping this valuable Bronx resource going and growing. Just like how NPR puts on an annual pledge drive to ask people to financially back “listener-supported” radio, we’re doing our pledge drive to enlist your help in backing reader-supported news!Without your support, we won’t be able to continue to sift through, gather, read and put all the Bronx news into an easily digestible roundup every day. Let alone produce the original reporting that tells you not just that some old Bronx lady died in a fire last week, but that the woman who died was Mary Mullen, a former teacher at PS 5 in Port Morris who lived near Poe Park for the past 30 years, ate at Louie’s Dale Diner on 231st Street, worshiped at St.

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Show Your Support For the Blog (and Non-Profit Organization) You Love

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We hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day yesterday and that you spent the day with someone special. Now how about showing some love to your favorite Bronx blog? Our campaign ends this Friday, and we’re reaching out to you, our dedicated readers, who visit the BxNN blog every day. We know our goal to raise $10,000 is ambitious, but we also know how much it will help our programs in 2011. Some of you may read the blog as part of your job, and some of you read us because you love living and working in the Bronx, and you like having a place to visit on the web that gathers great information and high-quality news about the Bronx.You may have noticed by now, there is no other organization that does what we do.

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Valentine's Day Events

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Happy Valentine’s, Bronxites! Wishing you a lovely day, whether you’re single or paired up this year. Here are some events taking place in the borough in honor of the day of love.-Councilman Joel Rivera and Bronx AIDS Services will be offering free HIV tests at 1901 Southern Blvd, from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Results are available in as little as 20 minutes. Free HIV counseling also available.-The Bronx Health Center is hosting a discussion on safer sex practices and improving your relationship with your partner today at 1 p.m., at 975 Westchester Ave. Call the center at (718) 320-4466 or email info@chnnyc.org for more information.-The Bronx Council on the Arts invites you to a free concert, “Love, Love, Love!

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Last Week-Donate to BxNN and Support our Programs in 2011

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We’re in the last week of our annual fundraising appeal and our focus on the blog all week is going to be on getting as much support as we can for our campaign, which ends Friday.When we launched our campaign in January, we knew our goal (to raise $10,000) was ambitious. And we’re really grateful to all of our donors who have given so far. But we know there are many more of you, our dedicated readers, who read BxNN every day. $10,000 may not seem like a lot of money for a news organization, but it’s a key part of our bare-bones budget that will allow us to continue doing what we do and build a strong foundation to bring you even more news and information about Bronx neighborhoods. I have a feeling that some of you reading this don’t consider contributing because you’re reading it as part of your job.

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The Bronx Sports Column: Who's the Bronx's Best Point Guard? Dwight Hardy Makes His Case

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Dwight Hardy, welcome to the conversation. (More on Hardy in this Bronxnet video above.)Before this season, the question of who is the best current Bronx-bred point guard came down to two names: Villanova University senior Corey Fisher and Kemba Walker, a junior at the University of Connecticut. After a highly productive three-year run mostly coming off the bench for Nova, Fisher, who attended New Jersey hoops powerhouse St. Patrick’s Catholic School, etched his name in NYC street ball lore over the summer when he dropped 105 points in a summer league game. A highly-touted McDonald’s All-American out of Manhattan’s Rice High School, Walker started the season in flames for the unranked Huskies, torching ranked foes Michigan St.

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Bronx Foodie: Valentine's Day Dinner

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This year is my first Valentine’s Day as a married lady, and I’m celebrating by making a romantic home-cooked dinner. My husband and I normally go to a nice restaurant, but this year we wanted to see if we could recreate the same experience at home, and for a lot less money. On the menu are some of my husband’s favorite foods: crab cakes as the appetizer, steak and mashed potatoes as the entree, and tiramisu for dessert. (I cook. He cleans.

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Parks on BronxTalk

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In preparation for the February 26th Bronx Park Speakup at Lehman College, two parks advocates will appear on BronxTalk this Monday night to talk about the Yankee parks and access to the Harlem River waterfront.