The following is a guest post by Gregory Jost, a Bronx-based researcher, organizer, and writer.…
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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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Four New Docks Under Construction as NYC Ferry Service Expands to Soundview This Summer
This summer, residents of transit-starved Soundview and other East Bronx neighborhoods will have a new option to get to Manhattan and points south: By ferry. Last year New York City’s ferry system, priced the same as a $2.75 subway ride, has been hugely successful and meeting expectations years ahead of schedule in terms of ridership.…
New Affordable Co-ops Coming to Williamsbridge Will Create Pathway To Homeownership for First Time Buyers
New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development has officially launched its new homeownership program aimed at first-time home buyers, called Open Door, with construction on a new affordable cooperative development in Williamsbridge. Called Sidney House and located at 839-841 Tilden Street, the $29 million, 57 unit building will have one bedroom units starting…
Human Bones From Hart Island Cemetery Are Washing Up on Orchard Beach & City Island
Just off the shores of City Island and Orchard Beach is Hart Island, the world’s largest publicly funded cemetery and the final resting place for the poorest of the poor or simply, the forgotten and unclaimed. It is perhaps the darkest and most depressing place in all of New York City with over 1 million…
Open Letter to Mayor de Blasio and NYC Council Speaker Johnson in Opposition to A New South Bronx Jail
The Diego Beekman community of Mott Haven penned an open letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson on the city’s plans to construct a new jail in the South Bronx. As you may already know by now, Mayor de Blasio made a unilateral decision, without even asking the…
The Orchid Show at The New York Botanical Garden Is Their Most Unique Yet
This year’s 16th annual Orchid Show at The New York Botanical Garden features the commissioned works of Daniel Ost, a world renowned floral artist from Belgium. Ost’s works on display at NYBG is a tribute to his training in the Japanese art of flower arranging called ikebana which follows the philosophy of wabi-sabi which finds…
Bodegas and Healthy Food in The Bronx? You Betcha
A new ad campaign is pushing healthy foods that some bodegas are selling in The Bronx up front and center. The Bodega Partners Workgroup, which arose from an original partnership between Montefiore Health System, BronxWorks, and Bronx Health Reach who started the Healthy Bodega Initiative two years ago, is now working to combat the oversaturation…
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