The New York City Council has overwhelmingly voted to remove Councilman Andy King from office…
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According to a mayoral scorecard, only 85.6% of Bronx streets were rated “acceptably” clean in…
Ese Olumhense, THE CITY This article was originally published on Sep 30 at 11:22am EDT…
Two Bronx zip codes covering a large swath of East Bronx neighborhoods have shown a…
Ese Olumhense, THE CITY This article was originally published on Sep 28 at 8:09pm EDT…
Eleven years ago, I decided to start a blog because I was tired of the…
Our Lady of Pity Church, which was deconsecrated by the Archdiocese of New York in November of 2017, is almost gone as its being demolished to make way for affordable housing. The…
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A Tale of Two Cities as Upper West Side ‘Resolves’ a Crisis Bronx Residents Have Battled for Decades
The Bronx Has been an unfortunate dumping ground for the city’s troubles for decades. Whether industries that heavily rely on intensive truck traffic which spews deadly pollution into our communities to medical waste incinerators the city has allowed to operate in the most vulnerable communities of The Bronx, we have been a veritable dumping ground…
Discount Retailer 5 Below is Coming to the South Bronx
MELROSE—Discount retailer 5 Below, which sells products for, you guessed it, under $ bucks, is opening its first South Bronx store. The giant retailer will join Burlington and Marshall’s at the old Alexander Department store building on Third Avenue in The Hub, The Bronx’s oldest shopping district and work is already underway at the ground-floor…
A White Professor Pretended to be a Puerto Rican Woman From The Bronx
Yesterday the activist community was met with the bombshell news that a local activist and professor of African American studies who claimed to be an afrolatina Puerto Rican woman from The Bronx was in fact a white, Jewish woman. Jess La Bombera was not in fact from The Bronx but Jessica A. Krug from Kansas…
White Supremacist and Antisemitic Graffiti in the South Bronx Cleaned Up by Locals
MELROSE—A law firm on 161st was vandalized yesterday with a swastika and the words “white power”. But several local residents were not having it and got together and painted over it and drew a flower over the racist garbage. “We didn’t want that in our community,” said a local resident who wishes to remain anonymous…
Amazon Leases Yet Another Warehouse in The Bronx
Amazon appears to be betting big on The Bronx as the company has reportedly leased a third warehouse in the borough and the second one this year. New York Business Journal reports that it was also the top lease transaction for industrial space during the second quarter of the year. Located at 1500 Basset Avenue…
The Bronx Has Highest Percentage of People Testing Positive for Coronavirus Antibodies
New data reveals that Bronx residents have the highest rate of positive test for coronavirus antibodies in New York City. The Bronx had a positive rate of 33% almost a full 5 percentage points above the next borough which is Queens at 28.2% and 6 points above the city average of 27%. This shouldn’t come…