After being closed for five months for renovations, the 167th Street and Grand Concourse Station…
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After two years of outreach and community engagement, local Bronx artists are finally moving into…
Starting in 2021, NYC Ferry will officially begin service at Throggs Neck from Ferry Point…
In October, Welcome2TheBronx broke the story that the Bronx General Post Office was up for…
Just days after Melrose was declared one of NYC’s hottest neighborhoods for 2019, a developer…
With 1,902 residential apartments under construction spread across 19 developments and a median 1 bedroom…
- A 2,200-bed migrant shelter for men heading to the South Bronx
- New York City Selects Developers for Long-Abandoned Kingsbridge Armory
- Construction begins on the tallest building in the South Bronx
- Rare, truly affordable apartments, as low as $454 a month, now available in The Bronx
- Housing lottery thinks $4,376 for a two-bedroom in Fordham in The Bronx is “affordable”
Almost overnight, the South Bronx grew a glittering skyline of market rate luxury rental towers along the Harlem River with many of them rising as tall as twenty five stories as the…
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A Christmas Miracle! The Bronx Christmas House is Lit Once Again!
With less than a week left until Christmas, the Garabedian home at 1605 Pelham Parkway, aka the Bronx Christmas House, is once again lit in its guady splendor! Last week we reported that the home, which was usually lit by Thanksgiving, was notably dark well past its typical start date much to the sadness of…
WATCH: Never Mess With a Bronx Woman; Local Takes Down Would-Be Car Thief
“Welcome to the f****** Bronx!” That’s what one Bronx woman shouted as she recorded a 49 year old woman taking justice into her own hands. According to the accounts, a woman left her car running as it warmed up before taking her kids to school and when she came back she saw a man inside…
Bronx Legend, Penny Marshall, Dead at 75
One of The Bronx’s most iconic actresses and film directors, Penny Marshall, has died at the age of 75. A Bronx ‘girl’ through and through, Marshall never lost her thick, Bronx accent and was best known by many as Laverne of the hit show Laverne and Shirley. It was revealed today that she died in…
WATCH: JLo Surprises Fans at Bronx Screening of ‘Second Act’
Jennifer Lopez aka JLo aka Jenny From The Block surprised fans last week at Bay Plaza Cinemas in Co-op City during a screening for her new movie, ‘Second Act’. She claimed that this was the movie theater she’d go to while she was growing up in our borough. ET reports: “We are going to do…
And the Top 10 Books Checked Out at Bronx Libraries Are…
The New York Public Library has published its list of the top ten books checked out in The Bronx for 2018. So what’s the most popular book in our borough? The top spot goes to Origin: A Novel by Dan Brown, the wildly popular author who wrote The Davinci Code. The full list is as…
At 55%, The Bronx Has Highest Rate of Residents Who Can’t Afford the Basics
Here’s another report about The Bronx that probably (and sadly) won’t shock you. According to Overlooked & Undercounted 2018: The Self-Sufficiency Standard for New York City, a report by City Harvest, our borough has the highest rate of residents below the standard of self-sufficiency. Citywide the rate is 40% but in our borough it’s much…
- A 2,200-bed migrant shelter for men heading to the South Bronx
- New York City Selects Developers for Long-Abandoned Kingsbridge Armory
- Construction begins on the tallest building in the South Bronx
- Rare, truly affordable apartments, as low as $454 a month, now available in The Bronx
- Housing lottery thinks $4,376 for a two-bedroom in Fordham in The Bronx is “affordable”