Last night hundreds of residents from the South Bronx and across the borough came out…
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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…
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A mighty oak tree in The Bronx is no more after succumbing to the winds…
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The wildly (pun very much intended) popular Animal Planet series, The Zoo, which follows zookeepers…
- After 115 years, historic All Hallows High School in The Bronx will close this year
- Archdiocese to close two more Bronx Catholic schools
- 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
The Economic Development Corporation’s pick of Maddd Equities and Joy Construction elevates hopes that decades of revival schemes finally come to fruition — and concerns about a contractor’s safety record. By Jonathan…
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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…
5 Train Suspended Between E 180th St & Dyre Avenue Due to Downed Tree; Thousands in East Bronx Without Power
UPDATE 5:53PM: 5 Service has resumed normal service. With winds up to 70mph and flooding from the Nor’easter battering The Bronx and the region, transportation is down all across the area. The 5 train service between E 180th Street and Dyre Avenue remains suspended after a tree fell across the tracks this morning. A similar…
Another Manhole Explosion in The Bronx, This Time in Belmont
Last week, three manhole explosions occurred on Davidson Avenue near W 183rd Street setting two cars on fire. Now, last night around 12:45AM, a build-up of carbon monoxide due to a manhole explosion caused another explosion and ripped apart the stoop of a building at 4683 Park Avenue. Luckily, no one was hurt as residents…
- After 115 years, historic All Hallows High School in The Bronx will close this year
- Archdiocese to close two more Bronx Catholic schools
- 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
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