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Watch: Bronx Teacher Melissa Salguero Wins Grammy Educator Award

Melissa Salguero, who teachers music at PS 48 aka the Joseph R. Drake School in Hunts Point has won the Grammy Educator award along with a $10,000 honorarium beating out music teachers from across the country. Since 2010, Salguero has been teaching over at PS 48 and is no stranger to recognition as having won…

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South Bronx Saviors or Sellouts?

South Bronx Gentrification How do we continue to improve our borough without becoming part of the problem and spurring gentrification? That’s the basic question I answered as honestly and as best as I could in a recent interview in The Village Voice. From the Gentrification Queen of the South Bronx, Majora Carter, to Bronxites like…

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Bronx Rents Rising with Highbridge Asking Rents Up 22% as Overall NYC Declines by 3.4%

Zumper just released its annual NYC Rent Map showing how rents have increased (or decreased) over the course of the year and the results are quite surprising (or not) with overall NYC rents dipping by 3.7% but The Bronx showed the biggest increases in all of NYC with rents jumping by 22% in Highbridge with…

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Landmark Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibition Coming to The Bronx’s New York Botanical Garden

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Works Coming to The New York Botanical Garden The Bronx’s New York Botanical Garden will be the home of a landmark exhibition this year called: ‘Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai‘i’ with over 15 of her paintings not seen together in New York since their debut 78 years ago. On the heels of major…

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$60 Million Animal Care Center of NYC FINALLY Coming to The Bronx

After decades of Bronx animal lovers pleading with New York City officials, we’re getting a real deal animal shelter in The Bronx. The new center, which is slated to open in 2024, will be a large 47,000 square foot facility on Bartow Avenue in the Baychester/Co-op City area of The Bronx and will provide adoption…

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2017 Was Record Year for Legionnaires’ in NYC Despite New Regulations After 2015 Bronx Outbreak

Legionnaires’ cases in New York City have increased by 65% in 2017 as compared to 2016. It even surpasses 2015 when New York City recorded the worst outbreak of legionnaires’ in its history with 133 Bronx residents contracting the disease which resulted in 16 deaths (not counting the school teacher who died right before) the…

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