The New York City Department of Transportation is close to finishing the first-ever “slow zone” pilot project in the city. It will be implemented by early October,
the department’s Bronx Borough Commissioner Constance Moran said at
Arizona basketball player Kevin Parrom was shot and wounded this weekend while visiting family in New York City but is expected to be OK, the university and police said.
An armed felon who waged a 15-hour hostage standoff with police two days before Christmas was sentenced to 20 years to life in state prison on September 22, 2011.
Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Lifshitz in Bronx, New York on October 14, 1939. Ralph’s mother Fradyl Koltar-Lifshitz and his father Frank Lifshitz were both Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Russia.