In our borough, 1 out of every 8 Bronxite is a senior and a new…
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Watch: A Bronx War Hero’s Lost Purple Heart Unites Long-Lost Relatives in Our Borough
Florinne Ambramowitz and her cousin Ronnie Connors who both grew up in The Bronx but…
Forced to Flee Washington Heights’s Gentrification, A Man Finally Finds a Place to Call Home in The Bronx
The following is a series written by Diego Robayo of the Historic District Council which…
Watch: Bronx Engineering Students Develop Water Filtration System for a School in Puerto Rico
Engineering students at Manhattan College in The Bronx worked together to create a water filtration…
The Legacy of Casa Amadeo: NYC’s Oldest Latino Music Store
Photo: Diego Robayo The following is a series written by Diego Robayo of the Historic…
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, We Recall How a Bronx Rabbi Saved a Family
Never forget. For the past 70 years we’ve been taught to never forget the genocide…
Epitaph for a Bronx Accent – Tablet Magazine
The following is an excerpt from a wonderful post on The Bronx’s Jewish history and how a language united its people in a borough that was home to the largest Jewish population in all of New York City.
Watch: 101 Year Old Bronx Woman—And Runner—An Inspiration For All
Bronx resident Ida Keeling is literally in a league of her own. Keeling, who turns 101 this month, has been racing for over 30 years now.
This centenarian has been setting records, particularly women in the 95-99 year category and now just days before her 101st birthday, has set yet another record for a new age bracket.
Curbed Celebrates The Bronx in Their First Ever ‘Bronx Week’ Coverage
Welcome2TheBronx is happy to be part of Curbed’s first-ever Bronx Week Coverage which was launched today. The series takes a dive into our ever changing borough and what makes us tick. Thanks to the folks at Curbed for asking us to be a part of their launch!
‘Battling Bella’: The Bronx Woman Who Fought For All
Bella Abzug (née Savitsky) was born on July 24, 1920, in The Bronx to Russian Jewish immigrants who went on to become the first Jewish woman elected to Congress as well as the first woman elected to the House of Representatives on a platform of gender equality and women’s rights.
Bronx Photojournalist Captures Hope & Despair Among Puerto Rico’s Millennials on The Island & Our Borough
Bronxite Edwin J Torres, a Puerto Rican photojournalist born and raised here in The Bronx, has launched ‘Portraits of Resilience: Puerto Rican millennials face economic meltdown with a spirit of pa’lante’, a beautiful photo-essay showing the plight of Puerto Rican millennials as the United States territory faces one of the largest economic meltdowns in history.
Puerto Rico is facing a massive brain drain along with a massive migration of these US citizens (by birth even on the island) in numbers unseen since the 1950s.
Four Bronxites Talk About Growing Up in Co-op City & Other parts of The Bronx
Curbed has launched its new series called ‘New York Narratives’ which takes a look at “Lifelong New Yorkers share stories commemorating, celebrating, and reflecting on the lived experience in New York City” and with its first series, 4 Bronx residents talk about growing up in Co-op City, Mott Haven, Highbridge, in the East Bronx along the 6 line, and living in Morris Park.