Call it HERstory. The Bronx born and raised rapper, Cardi B (who’s of Dominican descent)…
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This coming Tuesday, November 14th on World Diabetes Day, New York City’s first Diabetes Relief…
Several weeks after the removal of the busts of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall…
Only 19% of 718,302 active Bronx voters came out to vote during this past Tuesday’s…
Loving The Bronx is looking for volunteers to help out for It’s My Park clean…
Mark Gjonaj’s campaign to jump from the New York State Assembly into New York City…
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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Welcome2TheBronx To Expand As DNAinfo and Gothamist Are Shut Down
When we read the news on Thursday that DNAinfo and Gothamist were shut down just a week after they voted to unionize we were stunned but we immediately realized that The Bronx lost yet another media outlet covering what’s important to the people of our borough. Perhaps not so much with Gothamist but for years…
Jacobi Rated Least Safe Hospital in The Bronx While Lincoln Rated Safest
Leapfrog Hospital Safety Guide, the only hospital rating focused exclusively on hospital safety, issued its Fall 2017 ratings giving Jacobi Hospital a D rating for safety―one of the worst in New York City and the worst in The Bronx. The ratings are derived from an analysis of dozens of national measures of hospital safety which…
A Bronx Dominican Restaurant Honors A Mother Lost
The New York Times profiled a Dominican eatery called Margarita’s Restaurant in the Longwood area of The Bronx which honors the memory of the owner’s mother who lost her life in the American Airlines Flight 587 to Santo Domingo crash back in 2001. Margarita Brito’s late mother (named Reyna but known by her middle name…
How Harvard, The Vanderbilts, and yes, Tiffany’s & Co Heirs Benefited from A Bronx Land Sale
On Tuesday, July 13, 1920, one thousand four hundred and ninety-two vacant lots in what would eventually become Allerton and Pelham Gardens in The East Bronx went to auction starting at just $20 or $50 bucks depending on the lot. But how would the sale of these lots bisected by streets like Pearsall, Throop, and…
Bronx Neighborhood Renaming Roundtable Discussion
First they tried to rebrand the South Bronx as SoBro. Then came NoMa (North of Manhattan) for Riverdale (literally no neighborhood is safe), and more recently, Port Morris as the Piano District. All were met with resistance from Bronxites and have mostly been ignored by most. Now, as the market continues to accelerate fueled by…
We’ve Mapped Savor The Bronx, Our Borough’s Restaurant Week, For You
Restaurant week in Manhattan is cute but of course in The Bronx we have to have our own to highlight a handful of the many restaurants that we love that give our borough that flavor everyone craves. This year, 30 restaurants and breweries have joined and for your convenience, we’ve provided a handy map so…
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