The New York City Department of Health has confirmed that a second Bronx resident has…
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Budding astronomers and stargazers from The Bronx rejoice: New York City’s FIRST public observatory is…
The legionnaires outbreak in the Highbridge neighborhood of The Bronx has taken a deadly toll…
Call it the biggest fake news story of 2022. For the past several days, there…
Last Friday, the New York City Department of Health announced that it was investigating an…
Four years ago, Sharon Pandolfo-Perez, who runs The Parkchester Project, reached out to Welcome2TheBronx to…
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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Second Bronx child killed by gun violence in less than 2 months
It is an unfortunate circumstance that many have become accustomed to when living in The Bronx. Shootings and deaths as a result of gun violence are simply something that residents, despite the countless activists trying to curb such violence, have become almost indifferent to. But the unthinkable has happened, yet again. Kyhara Tay, an 11…
Ruben Diaz Jr. Is Lobbying for Bronx Waterfront Development He Championed as Borough President
Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Greg B. Smith, THE CITY This article was originally published on May 9 at 9:11pm EDT by THE CITY Lobbying records indicate Ruben Diaz Jr. is on a six-month $120,000 retainer to lobby the city on behalf of Dynamic Star LLC, the developer behind Fordham Landing. At 40 acres, the anticipated…
Loud thunder wakes up half The Bronx and NYC
Bronxites and residents across New York City and even New Jersey were awoken by a loud, ground-shaking boom this morning around 6AM. Many residents were caught off guard given the fact that thunderstorms weren’t in the forecast, just rain, especially given the fact that many were still sleeping snuggly in their beds. But why did…
Apply for brand new apartments as low as $588/mo for 2 bedrooms near Yankee Stadium
A lottery has opened for 225 brand new affordable apartments just blocks from Yankee Stadium. Located at 1164 River Avenue at the 167th Street Station on the 4 subway line, the development is one of three going up on that block and the first to be nearing completion. The 17-story development was also the second…
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, We Recall How a Bronx Rabbi Saved one Family
Never forget. For the past 70 years we’ve been taught to never forget the genocide of six million Jews but a new survey released today on Yom Hashoa, Holocaust Remembrance Day, shows that it is fading into memory. The New York Times reports: Thirty-one percent of Americans, and 41 percent of millennials, believe that two…
Local politician wants to bring a casino to The Bronx
The sound of slot machines may soon ring in the air along the Hunts Point waterfront in the South Bronx if a local politician gets her wishes. On April 9th, New York State’s new budget was enacted and it provides for three full new casinos and state Assemblymember Amanda Septimo thinks that The Bronx should…