Last Friday, the New York City Department of Health announced that it was investigating an…
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Four years ago, Sharon Pandolfo-Perez, who runs The Parkchester Project, reached out to Welcome2TheBronx to…
The New York City Department of Health has announced that legionnaires disease has been detected…
It is an unfortunate circumstance that many have become accustomed to when living in The…
Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Greg B. Smith, THE CITY This article was originally published on…
Bronxites and residents across New York City and even New Jersey were awoken by a…
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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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…
Judge Says Trump Firm Can Keep Running Bronx Golf Course After de Blasio Broke Contract
Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Katie Honan, THE CITY This article was originally published on Apr 8 at 4:55pm EDT by THE CITY The Trump Organization can continue to operate a city-owned Bronx golf course, a judge ruled Friday. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio terminated a Trump company’s contract for the Ferry Point Park golf course…
The Best Pizza in The Bronx
If you ask five random people in The Bronx where you can get the best pizza, you will most likely get five different answers and might even get into a heated, and very passionate argument as to why it’s the best. But what makes a good pizza? Well, that’s up to individual preferences and tastes…
NYC announces plan to demolish hundreds of South Bronx Buildings to make way for luxury
With only a few months into the new year, the Adams administration has announced a radical plan to speed up the gentrification of the South Bronx and create an entirely new neighborhood. The plan will focus on mostly the Melrose area of the South Bronx from 149th Street to 163rd Street where hundreds of buildings…
The Bronx Is Churning: Borough Has Worst MTA Escalator Service by Far
Jose Martinez and Suhail Bhat, THE CITY This article was originally published on Mar 27 at 8:30pm EDT by THE CITY The worst-performing subway escalator in The Bronx — at the Gun Hill Road stop on the No. 2 and 5 lines — is also one of the newest in the borough, having been in…