Results tagged “bronx”

Seems like everyone has a video on YouTube these days — even gang members in the Fifth Ward. KHOU found the video made by self-professed gang members, who talk about crime, life on the streets and grills (which cost $1,500 cash, apparently). As you might expect, city leaders aren't too happy about the video: "They can't be the voice of the Fifth Ward," City Councilman Jarvis Johnson, whose district includes the neighborhood, said. "I'm... more ›

Good morning, Houston. We hope you're recovering from your President's Day festivities — if you need something to take the edge off, we suggest one of President William Howard Taft's favorites, the Bronx Cocktail (and in case you wondered, there is precedent for drinking them at this hour — just don't indulge too much or you could end up more like Taft than you'd want to be). Cocktail or no, we all know nothing... more ›

The Guardian Angels' arrival in Houston yesterday couldn't have been timed better: Just a few minutes before the community watch organization got to Sharpstown Mall, a group of teens got into a brawl outside a mall entrance, resulting in one teen getting pummeled on the sidewalk and shots being fired into the air. It's just the kind of thing that led Sharpstown resident Jeff Schmidt to ask the Angels to help clean his neighborhood up. more ›

The Guardian Angels, the red-bereted citizen patrol formed in 1979 to make the Bronx safer for residents, may be coming to Houston to patrol Sharpstown, the Chronicle reports. Sharpstown resident Jeff Schmidt called the Angels because he was tired of crime in his neighborhood: more ›