After several years of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the La Central YMCA in…
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Thirty-five years after author Jill Jones published South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection…
MORRIS HEIGHTS—The Bronx’s own Grammy-winning Hip Hop artist, Cardi B, came back to the borough…
It’s been over a year since a lottery was launched for a luxury “affordable” housing…
After a temporary hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pride festivities celebrating The Bronx’s LGBTQIA…
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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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NYC’s first public observatory is coming to The Bronx
Budding astronomers and stargazers from The Bronx rejoice: New York City’s FIRST public observatory is set to come to the mainland borough this year. After serving students at Nassau Community College on Long Island for over 40 years, the 12 foot tall structure is seeking a new home as it has been retired due to…
Bronx Legionnaires’ outbreak turns deadly as disease claims first victim, hospitalizes 8
The legionnaires outbreak in the Highbridge neighborhood of The Bronx has taken a deadly toll as the first victim has died from the disease while the number of infected has nearly doubled and risen to 19 with 8 hospitalized for this potentially fatal disease. The public was first alerted to the outbreak last Friday, May…
NYC public payphones alive and well in The Bronx
Call it the biggest fake news story of 2022. For the past several days, there has been a media frenzy that the last public payphone in New York City was removed in Times Square, bringing with it an end of an era. But the viral news wasn’t quite accurate and in fact, quite misleading. Although…
Legionnaires’ outbreak in The Bronx rises to 10 cases
Last Friday, the New York City Department of Health announced that it was investigating an outbreak of legionnaires’ in the Highbridge neighborhood of The Bronx where 4 individuals were noted as having contracted the potentially fatal type of pneumonia. Now, as of yesterday, the number of those infected in the area has risen to 10…
Iconic Parkchester statues continue to disappear
Four years ago, Sharon Pandolfo-Perez, who runs The Parkchester Project, reached out to Welcome2TheBronx to inform us about something disturbing: The iconic terracotta statues that adorn the 171 buildings spread across 129 acres in one of the most well-known planned communities in not just The Bronx but New York City were disappearing. Back then, Pandolfo-Perez…
Legionnaires outbreak in The Bronx detected
The New York City Department of Health has announced that legionnaires disease has been detected in four people in the Highbridge neighborhood of The Bronx. According to NYCDOH, these infections were detected going back to May 9th and are clustered around the 10452 and 10456 zip codes with results from other individuals presenting similar symptoms…