After almost 3 years of pressure from the community and the Breen Brothers thorough documentation…
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Tucked away in New York City’s third largest park in Van Cortlandt is The Bronx’s…
Much to the chagrin of residents in Bedford Park, another building will be going up…
First of all it’s way too early to be thinking about pizza (ok I’m lying,…
In the era of Donald Trump, our families are facing extreme levels of bigotry and…
A new report by Localize, an AI-driven site powered by data scientists and urban planners,…
Bally’s gambling complex proposal at the former Trump Links in Throggs Neck relies on getting state approval to alienate parkland, but lacks local leaders’ support as the legislative session winds down. By…
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Old Photographs of Jewish Life in The Bronx
It’s hard to imagine for many that at one point, The Bronx was the most Jewish borough of NYC with almost 50% of the population of our borough identifying as Jewish in 1930. To this day no borough has even come remotely close to those numbers. As we were sifting through a catalog of old…
Watch: 92 Year Old Doctor Melissa Freeman is STILL Practicing Medicine!
Back in April we featured a video a video on Bronx born and raised Dr Melissa Freeman and now Good Morning America has a longer feature on this fascinating woman who at 92 years is still a practicing doctor! According to the interview the Williamsbridge native sees hundreds of patients a year treating individuals with…
The Bronx Breaks New Construction Record
During the second quarter of 2018, more than 9 million square feet of construction was completed in New York City resulting in the highest level this decade and even besting pre-recession levels according to an analysis conducted by The Real Deal. And The Bronx just shattered its own record. The Real Deal reports that The…
Report: Bronx Economic Boom Powered by Immigrants
Whether documented or undocumented one thing is clear: Immigrants have helped shape the economic boom The Bronx is currently experiencing. According to Crain’s, unemployment is the lowest since 1990 when statistics began being tracked and The Bronx leads the city with the highest average salary in the health care industry in New York City at…
Watch: Bronx Woman in Her 70s Starts Fashion Line
Akua Afriyie, a woman in her 70s in living in The Bronx, isn’t your ordinary senior citizen. Instead of simply just enjoying her retirement, she’s hard at work creating her own fashion line according to this video from News12 The Bronx. She tells News12 that in order to make ends meet she had to set…
Montefiore ER Nurse: “It looks like a refugee camp in a war zone”
Councilman Ritchie Torres is calling for an investigation into Montefiore Hospital as staff and nurses are calling out the institution’s terrible practices. According to staff, Montefiore places patients insured by Medicaid, essentially the poorest of the poor and most vulnerable, into crowded hallways awaiting treatment. This is an extremely disturbing account on The Bronx’s largest…
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