It is an unfortunate circumstance that many have become accustomed to when living in The…
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Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Greg B. Smith, THE CITY This article was originally published on…
Bronxites and residents across New York City and even New Jersey were awoken by a…
A lottery has opened for 225 brand new affordable apartments just blocks from Yankee Stadium.…
Never forget. For the past 70 years we’ve been taught to never forget the genocide…
The sound of slot machines may soon ring in the air along the Hunts Point…
Last Friday, the New York City Department of Health announced that it was investigating an outbreak of legionnaires’ in the Highbridge neighborhood of The Bronx where 4 individuals were noted as having…
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The Best Pizza in The Bronx
If you ask five random people in The Bronx where you can get the best pizza, you will most likely get five different answers and might even get into a heated, and very passionate argument as to why it’s the best. But what makes a good pizza? Well, that’s up to individual preferences and tastes…
NYC announces plan to demolish hundreds of South Bronx Buildings to make way for luxury
With only a few months into the new year, the Adams administration has announced a radical plan to speed up the gentrification of the South Bronx and create an entirely new neighborhood. The plan will focus on mostly the Melrose area of the South Bronx from 149th Street to 163rd Street where hundreds of buildings…
The Bronx Is Churning: Borough Has Worst MTA Escalator Service by Far
Jose Martinez and Suhail Bhat, THE CITY This article was originally published on Mar 27 at 8:30pm EDT by THE CITY The worst-performing subway escalator in The Bronx — at the Gun Hill Road stop on the No. 2 and 5 lines — is also one of the newest in the borough, having been in…
Time is running out to apply for brand new affordable apartments as low as $569 a month for 2 bedrooms in The Bronx
The clock is ticking and time is running out to apply for the newest (and tallest) building on the Grand Concourse providing spectacular views of The Bronx and Manhattan and plenty of river views. 425 Grand Concourse, located at the site of the former landmarked and now demolished PS 31 AKA Castle on the Concourse,…
Albert Einstein, Pi Day, and The Bronx
Here’s a favorite tidbit of Bronx history we’re reposting in honor of Albert Einstein! Happy π Day! Not only is March 14 a day we celebrate the mathematical constant known as Pi (thus 3.14) but it is also the birthday of the late Albert Einstein…what a wonderful coincidence that he was born on this day! One…
The Bronx Hall of Justice Is Falling Apart and No One Knows How to Stop It
by Greg B. Smith, THE CITY This article was originally published on Feb 20 at 7:01pm EST by THE CITY When it opened in 2008, the loftily named Bronx Hall of Justice was billed as the crown jewel of New York’s court system — the biggest courthouse in the state, sheathed in glass and housing…