They opened up a new playground near my new apartment and it’s awesome. Too bad they didn’t open it until the end of summer. Vin enjoyed it.

They opened up a new playground near my new apartment and it’s awesome. Too bad they didn’t open it until the end of summer. Vin enjoyed it.

Categories: park, playground, nyc, bronx, vin, summer, water, play,

  • One man shot and another slashed across the face in a fight at a building on 13th Street & 4th Avenue
  • One dead and 3 teenagers wounded after gunmen opened fire on a teen party at Grand Concourse and E 171st Street - one of the 3 was the 19 year old host, the injured were 16, 18, and 18
  • 16 year old shot dead on Cromwell Ave in the Bronx after stepping outside of his house to take a phone call
  • 9 other shootings in the Bronx (total 13 people shot last night in the BX alone)
  • One man, who is an ex con suspected of shooting a 2 year old girl outside of the O’Dwyer Gardens House in Coney Island on July 25th, was shot 3 times and killed last night at West 32nd and Mermaid Ave
  • 2:30 AM last night a shooting at 144th and Lenox in Harlem left one man dead and 2 cops injured - 22 year old Luis Soto - it is still unclear who exactly shot Soto with witnesses claiming the cops shot him.
  • Another shooting at Cortlandt Ave in the Bx
  • Two women and one man are in the hospital after being shot by a .357 on Beekman Street after getting into an argument with 2 men at 3 AM

Categories: nyc, violent, crime, shootings, bronx,
Butterfly Doors on Tratman in the BX … hydrant’s open, stereo’s bumpin, someone’s cooking, people chillin in front of the buildings … a typical BX Saturday Afternoon

Butterfly Doors on Tratman in the BX … hydrant’s open, stereo’s bumpin, someone’s cooking, people chillin in front of the buildings … a typical BX Saturday Afternoon

Categories: cars, butterfly, doors, Bronx,
They’re still looking for this asshole that raped a 79-year old woman in a building near my block. This flyer is on every building in the hood.
Another reason to invest in a taser …

They’re still looking for this asshole that raped a 79-year old woman in a building near my block. This flyer is on every building in the hood.

Another reason to invest in a taser …

Closed for prayer. The bodega on my new corner.

Closed for prayer. The bodega on my new corner.

Categories: bronx, bodega, prayer, store,
There are Alleys everywhere.

There are Alleys everywhere.

Categories: bronx, the block, nyc,

 Chang Li is Awesome! 
Bronx, NY

 Chang Li is Awesome!

Bronx, NY

Have a good day at school, Baby Bear!

Have a good day at school, Baby Bear!

Categories: vin, snow, nyc, bronx,
fuckyeahthebronx:

Naramaya Chimoria, 72, keeps an eye on some children outside the building on University Avenue.

fuckyeahthebronx:

Naramaya Chimoria, 72, keeps an eye on some children outside the building on University Avenue.
Categories: bronx,
fuckyeahthebronx:

Beauty Supplies, 1981.  From the late 1960s to the early ’80s, the South Bronx lost thousands of buildings.
Categories: bronx, nyc,

Sunday in Pelham Bay, Bronx.

Categories: pelham bay, bronx,
"It ultimately took some sixty firefighters to cash the well-packed blaze; now investigators just need to scrape the house for resin."

[via Gothamist]

An early morning blaze at a pot-grower’s house hotboxed an entire block in the Bronx today. One dazed neighbor tells the Post, “It was like the house was a giant weed farm. I thought it was a fog, there was so much smoke.”

Categories: mary jane, bronx, nyc, drugs,

BRONX (WABC) — The NYPD has issued an Amber Alert for a confirmed child abduction in the Bronx.

The abduction occurred at St. Lawrence Avenue at 1:00 PM on Tuesday.

The victim is Giavonna Vizard, approximately 1 year 8 months old with brown hair and brown eyes. She is approximately 2 feet and weighs about 30 pounds.

Giavonna was last seen wearing light blue jeans, a long sleeve pink striped shirt, black Air Jordan sneakers, and a black bubble coat with Rocawear lettering in pink on the back.

Police believe she was taken by 13-year-old Lisa Keitt. She is an African-American with short, brown hair and brown eyes. She is approximately 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs about 115 pounds. Keitt was last seen wearing black stretch pants, a black zip up sweatshirt, white and purple sneakers, and a long black bubble coat. She is light skinned.

The suspect is a chronic runaway and took the child from a relatives home following a domestic dispute. Suspect has no known means to care for or protect the child, police said.

Anyone with any information on this abduction is asked to call the NYPD at (866) NYS- AMBER or dial 911 to provide information on a report or sighting.

#1 - That’s a badass name for a police operation; sometimes I do enjoy the NYPD

#2 - Click here to check out the indictment of 53 Bloods members arrested for selling drugs around Yankee Stadium.(via NY Post)

#3 - Cops been buying heroine from them for a minute - 30 buys in indictment

#4 - The NYPD wins the *clever name* contest since the gang members operated under such creative gems like: “Get Money Crew” and “Bronx Gun Slingers”

Categories: nyc, bronx, gangsta, drugs, crime,
Back in the BX. Almost home.

Back in the BX. Almost home.

Categories: bronx, train, 6 train, subway,