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LATEST NEWS

Bronx Jewish Hall of Fame Inducts 2017’s Honorees

This past Wednesday, November 29th at The Bronx Museum of The Arts, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr, along with The Bronx Jewish Historical Initiative, celebrated the induction of this year’s honorees to the Bronx Jewish Hall of Fame. “The Bronx Jewish Hall of Fame showcases people who have made extraordinary contributions not just within…

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First Luxury Building Revealed in Port Morris Near The Bronx’s Randall’s Island Connector

  YIMBY has revealed renderings for an alleged luxury building coming to Port Morris just 2 blocks from the Randall’s Island Connector but there’s only one catch: The lot isn’t zoned for residential and was left out of the 2004 rezoning of the area. The proposed site is actually comprised of 3 separate lots with…

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Project Seeks Bronx Italian American Residents For Oral History Initiative

The Bronx Italian American History Initiative at Fordham University is seeking Italian Americans from our borough to create an online archive of personal stories of Italians and Italian Americans, the Bronx neighborhoods they settled and lived in as well as worked. According to the BIAHI: “Italian immigrants and their children made lasting contributions to the…

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