The CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies presents Irish Musicians and Dancers, performing at Lehman College, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. W., Oct. 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 to $50 ($5 off with student ID). For more information, call (212) 864-5400. (Listing courtesy of http://www.bronxmall.com/)

Published by BoogieDowner on October 10, 2008.

Lehman College’s Theatre Program will open the new season with a production of French playwright Jean Anouilh’s adaptation of the Greek tragedy Medea, at 3:30 p.m., in the Studio Theatre, on campus, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

...of-the-art sound system and is located on the campus of Lehman College, at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West. This special concert will feature a live performance by nine-time GRAMMY Award winner and...

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts will host “An Evening of New York City Salsa,” at 8 p.m. The event will be held in the Concert Hall, which has a newly installed state-of-the-art sound system and is located on the campus of Lehman College, at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

The man was counting his cash in the hallway at 2840 Sedgwick Ave. on Sunday, at 9 p.m., when a stranger attacked him, stabbing him three times with a knife - under his left arm, on the left side of his back and on his right forearm.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

Citing the existing noise and air pollution near his home at West Kingsbridge Road and University Avenue, Michael Murphy, a member of the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance and Our Lady of Angels...

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

The boy was walking at the southeast corner of West Kingsbridge Road and Kingsbridge Terrace at around 8 p.m. on Sunday when two men approached him, brandishing guns and...

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

...will perform a free concert of classical works in Lehman’s Music Building Recital Hall, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. W., on Sunday, Oct. 5 at 2 p.m. Featured performers include cellist Andre Emelianoff and...

Published by BoogieDowner on October 3, 2008.

The 29-year-old victim was near Jerome Avenue and 195th Street at around 11:20 p.m. on Sept. 22 when Mr. Ortiz, a 17-year-old from Amsterdam, N.Y., snatched the T-Mobile Sidekick from his hands and fled, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

When employees of C-Town at 2891 Sedgwick Ave. came in to open the store early on the morning of Sept. 22, they found that the store’s safe had been damaged during the night, but nothing was taken.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

...of-the-art sound system and is located on the campus of Lehman College, at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West. This special concert will feature a live performance by nine-time Grammy Award winner and...

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

The Lehman Chamber Players will open the musical season at Lehman College with a performance of works by Schumann, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Brahms, at 2 p.m., in the Music Building Recital Hall, on campus, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

Lehman College Art Gallery will hold a reception for the opening of an exhibition of paintings by Tony Bechara, called “Grand Canyon,” from 6 to 7:30 p.m., at the gallery, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

The victim allegedly ran after Mr. Ortiz, chasing him for about two blocks, until he saw Mr. Ortiz toss the phone into a cluster of garbage cans behind 95 W. 195th St.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

Authorities said the suspect robbed a bank at 18 Fordham Road around 10 a.m. Monday.

Published by NY1 on October 1, 2008.

2415 Creston Ave., 3 Bedroom - $1350/month

Published by BoogieDowner on September 26, 2008.

The congregation will hold High Holiday services at the Chabad synagogue, 535 W. 246th St.; Kinneret Day School in the Century building, 2600 Netherland Ave.; and the Kittay House, 2550 Webb Ave.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

Michael Spierman, director of the Bronx Opera Company and conductor of the Orchestra of the Bronx, will lead a series of lectures on “The Life and Works of Beethoven,” starting Thursday, Oct. 2, at 2:30 p.m., in the Towers’ Community Room, 3975 Sedgwick Ave.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

The county committee meeting will held at 6:30 p.m. in the Utopia Paradise Theatre, 2403 Grand Concourse.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

A 28-year-old woman parked her 2007 Honda Civic at the southeast corner of 197th Street and Reservoir Avenue overnight on Sept. 14, and returned at around 2 p.m. the next day to find it gone.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

Just before midnight on Sept. 16, 50th Precinct Officer Kevin Casey says he noticed Mr. Sierra and his accomplice — whose name was withheld because of his age — hovering with hands bleeding from broken glass, around a Dodge minivan parked at the northeast corner of Sedgwick and Reservoir avenues.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

Gavin Scott is taken from the 52nd Precinct to Bronx Central Booking after his arrest.

Published by New York Daily News on September 22, 2008.

According to police, the pair brutally beat De La Cruz, who was visiting his children in the Fordham section of the Bronx the weekend before last.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 22, 2008.

De la Cruz hosts the weekday morning talk show "Conexion Hispana" at WESX-AM in Chelsea, Mass., near Boston. He was visiting his children in the Fordham section of the Bronx. Police are looking for his attacker.

Published by WNBC on September 22, 2008.

The promising 20-year-old boxer's dad yesterday railed at his son's killer. "Nothing is going bring back my son," Vargas' father German Vargas, 52, said in his East Tremont living room, a virtual shrine to the young pugilist who turned pro last year.

Published by New York Daily News on September 21, 2008.

"It shows this is a neighborhood that people are willing to invest big dollars in," said Michael Tambasco of Halstead, the leasing broker for three storefronts at 52-56 E. Fordham that he's marketing separately and as a single, 10,500-square-foot space.

Published by New York Daily News on September 21, 2008.

Back on August 16th, surveillance video captured the fight that left 20-year-old Ronney Vargas dead. The three-time Golden Glove champ was shot in the chest as he sat in his car outside a bodega in East Tremont.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 20, 2008.

Pelagio de la Cruz - who hosts a Spanish-language talk show on WESX-AM in Chelsea, Mass. - was trying to get into his children's building in University Heights when the two men crept up behind him at 3:30 a.m., cops said.

Published by New York Post on September 20, 2008.

Pelagio de la Cruz, 52 - who hosts a Spanish-language radio talk show on WESX-AM in Chelsea, Mass. - was in town visiting his three kids in University Heights when the two men crept up behind him around 4:30 a.m. as he tried to get into his children's building, cops said.

Published by New York Post on September 19, 2008.

Police say the 52-year-old victim was waiting to enter 2460 Davidson Avenue just after 3:30 a.m. when the first suspect came up from behind him and began to strike him on the head with a baseball bat.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 19, 2008.

The video shows the attacker forcefully slamming the bat into the 52-year-old victim at least seven times after he fell to the ground outside 2640 Davidson Ave. at 3:35 a.m. Sunday.

Published by amNY.com on September 19, 2008.

The incident happened on Sunday around 3:35 a.m. as the victim, identified as Pelagio de la Cruz, a 52-year-old father of three, was waiting to enter an apartment building at 2460 Davidson Ave. in the Bronx.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 19, 2008.

“It’s like they’re paying you,” a recent post on the Web site proclaimed, lauding a one-bedroom apartment in University Heights that rented for $700 a month.

Published by New York Times on September 19, 2008.

.“The visual is almost like heart surgery,” said Tony Perez Cassino, a member of Community Board 8 who, like many others, opposed the route of the project from its inception because it cuts through the center of Riverdale.

Published by New York Times on September 19, 2008.

The victim, Pelagio De La Cruz, was waiting to enter 2460 Davidson Ave. in the Bronx when a man came up from behind him and began to hit him in the head with the bat. He continued to strike the man repeatedly as a second man approached. Both men then removed the victim's wallet and cell phone, the tape shows.

Published by WNBC on September 19, 2008.

The man, Pelagio de la Cruz, 52, was attacked in front of 2640 Davidson Avenue, Kingsbridge Heights about 3:30 a.m. when he returned to the building after an evening out. He was in New York visiting his children, who live in the building with their mother, the police said.

Published by New York Times on September 19, 2008.

During a game at DeWitt Clinton High School in the late 1920s, Lou Bender connected on a long two-handed set shot, prompting someone in the stands to shout, “Now that was a lulu of a basket.”.

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

Folksbeine, the National Yiddish Theater troupe, will hold a special concert at the Lovinger Theater of Lehman College, at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, at 2 p.m.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 18, 2008.

The action, caught on a security camera, began at around 2 p.m., on Sept. 8, when one man, working on his own, pushed through a construction site door at Caridad Restaurant, at 135 W. Kingsbridge Road. He then left the premises and returned with another man and a shopping cart, police said.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 18, 2008.

The congregation will hold High Holiday services at the Chabad synagogue, 535 W. 246th St.; Kinneret Day School in the Century building, 2600 Netherland Ave.; and the Kittay House, 2550 Webb Ave.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 18, 2008.

Michael Spierman, director of the Bronx Opera Company and conductor of the Orchestra of the Bronx, will lead a series of lectures on “The Life and Works of Beethoven,” starting Thursday, Oct. 2, at 2:30 p.m., in the Towers’ Community Room, 3975 Sedgwick Ave.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 18, 2008.

Bronx bridges include University Heights Bridge over the Harlem River between 207th Street in Manhattan and Fordham Road that already celebrated its centennial in January;

Published by West Bronx Blog on September 16, 2008.

Flores, a day laborer, told cops that Calderone came to his home on Gun Hill Road in Norwood to pick up her cable-TV box on Saturday.

Published by New York Daily News on September 15, 2008.

The hacking allegedly happened on Saturday night. Police say the ex-girlfriend came to the man's home on Gun Hill Road in the Norwood section of the Bronx, to retrieve her cable-TV box.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 15, 2008.

8:15 p.m. The New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers hosts a safety summit to respond to a string of violent crimes against cabbies. At Lehman College, 250 Bedford Park West in the Bronx.

Published by The New York Observer on September 12, 2008.

The event is taking place Saturday night at the Montecarlo Room, located at 2700 Jerome Avenue.

Published by The New York Observer on September 12, 2008.

JENNIFER McGREGOR, curator at Wave Hill, takes a closer look at Leah Oates’ light box photograph taken in Van Cortlandt Park. The work, on display in the garden’s Glyndor Gallery, is part of the new exhibit, ‘Suprisingly Natural:

Published by Riverdale Press on September 11, 2008.

“Surprisingly Natural: the Nature of the Bronx,” a major photography showcase in the Glyndor Gallery, is now on display to the public through Sunday, Nov. 30. The exhibit, which is being held in collaboration with the Bronx River Art Center and Lehman College Art Gallery, focuses on the importance of nature as an essential element of life in the Bronx.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 11, 2008.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of Jewish playwright Abraham Goldfaden, the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater and the City University of New York will present a series of free lectures and concerts featuring the works of the man widely considered to be the father of Yiddish theater, beginning with a lecture, at 2 p.m., at Lehman College’s Carman Hall, on campus, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 11, 2008.

Leon Newman, a longtime Van Cortlandt Village resident, died in his Park Reservoir apartment on Sunday after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 76.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 11, 2008.