New York’s Department of Transportation reports that its e-scooter program—now whirring along Bronx and Eastern Queens roads—has tallied over two million rides this year, twice last year’s pace. Fans tout fewer car trips and a cleaner commute, while…
Bronx Congressman Ritchie Torres, a vocal Israel supporter, now faces Michael Blake in the Democratic primary—Blake once courted AIPAC himself but claims the group and Netanyahu have lost their way. In District 15, where local issues and Middle East politics tangle, each insists he’s got a better fix for the Bronx’s woes; voters may soon decide which cause trumps, or just who’s less repetitively persistent.
Shirley Aldebol, a veteran labor organizer and Democrat, ousted Kristy Marmorato—until now the Bronx’s lone Republican—by nearly 2,000 votes in New York’s Council District 13, artfully returning the seat to blue after Marmorato’s brief, headline-grabbing GOP breakthrough two years ago. Aldebol marked her victory while attending the SOMOS El Futuro conference in Puerto Rico—apparently finding the weather for flipping seats better offshore.
Seven firefighters were injured when a burning car exploded in the Bronx’s Longwood neighbourhood as they tackled a trash fire, FDNY officials reported. Five sustained burns, three seriously, but all are expected to recover after swift treatment at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi. As fire marshals sift through surveillance footage to pinpoint the cause, we’re reminded that New York’s Bravest occasionally face fireworks of the less festive variety.
A grim day for the Castle Hill Houses in the Bronx: police found four members of the Stukes family dead in what the NYPD called an apparent murder-suicide, with a gun recovered at the scene. The area’s long-running struggle with violence continues—shootings there are up 17% this year—but even in a hardened borough, such tragedy fails to become just another statistic.
