150 units at 1903 West Farms Road at the 10-building Compass Residences have opened up…
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One of our favorite Bronx restaurants is in the heart of Morris Park and it’s…
Last night hundreds of residents from the South Bronx and across the borough came out…
Jerome Avenue Rezoning Moves A Step Closer to Reality as Land Use Committee Gives Unanimous Approval
The West Bronx is on the verge of a huge make-over and city sponsored gentrification…
The Bronx keeps churning out talented people! Jermaine Wells, a Bronx born and bred actor,…
A mighty oak tree in The Bronx is no more after succumbing to the winds…
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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Watch: Season 2 of The Zoo Starts This Saturday, March 10th!
The wildly (pun very much intended) popular Animal Planet series, The Zoo, which follows zookeepers and their charges at our Bronx Zoo is back for a second season and kicks off this Saturday. The show provides an intimate look into the dedication these people have to the animals at The Bronx Zoo regardless of their…
See: Rare, Color Photos of Freedomland
Before Co-op City, the world’s largest cooperative development that over 50,000 residents call home was built, there was Freedomland. Built in the marshlands and coastal area along the Hutchinson River, Freedomland was a short lived amusement park with America as its theme. It billed itself as the world’s largest entertainment center before changing that to…
New Map Shows What We’ve Said All Along: “Affordable” Housing Unaffordable To Local Residents
Curbed just published a sobering look at “affordable” housing and how it relates to the local communities where they are constructed in terms of actual affordability. Their findings are not surprising to us or activists who have for years asked, “Affordable for who?” due to the very fact that these units are rarely affordable to…
Watch: Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez Back Bronx Program That Teaches Real Estate to Kids
J-Lo aka Jenny from The Block is giving a bit more back to The Bronx along with her beau, former New York Yankees baseball player Alex Rodriguez aka A-Rod, by way of a program aimed at equipping local kids with financial literacy in real estate. The program, known as Project Destined, was launched by Cedric…
Apply for New “Affordable” Housing in Norwood
Norwood Gardens, at 400 E 203rd Street and Webster Avenue is now accepting applications for 117 “affordable” housing units. The 11 story building has rents ranging from $865/month for studios to $2,302/month for three-bedroom units depending on income ranges of $31,989 for a family of 1 to $143,910 for a family of 6 which represents…
Thousands of Black Nurses, the Young Lords and the Relocation of Riker’s: Why the history of a block matters
The following is a guest post by Gregory Jost, a Bronx-based researcher, organizer, and writer. This is a series on New York City Mayor de Blasio’s controversial plan to build a prison in the South Bronx neighborhood of Mott Haven without consulting residents and local leaders. Read the open letter from Diego-Beekman to the Mayor…
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