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LATEST NEWS

Watch The Dress that Shows You How Dirty Your Bronx Air Is

She looks like a club kid walking through the streets of the South Bronx but she’s not going dancing. Dominique Paul is on a mission to use her art, a light-up dress, just how dirty the air is thanks to pollution from traffic and other sources and what better place to show it off and…

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Welcome2TheBronx to Be Archived By Columbia University Libraries

We have received a bit of exciting news: Welcome2TheBronx has been selected by Columbia University Libraries for their Web Resources Collection Program, “…for inclusion in its Avery Library Historic Preservation and Urban Planning web archive to ensure its continuing availability to researchers.” Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University is the world’s largest…

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Watch: Who Makes The Bronx?

Bronxite Giacomo Francia has a documentary project called ‘Who Makes The Bronx’ and recently had a beautiful segment published in The New York Times which you can watch right here. The series takes a look particularly of workers along Jerome Avenue, an area of our borough that is threatened by displacement as a major rezoning…

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WATCH: One of City’s Largest Green Roofs Opens in The Bronx

RIVERDALE―The Whitehall Co-op on Henry Hudson Parkway and W 232nd Street unveiled a massive 30,000 square foot green roof designed by the same landscape designers as Manhattan’s High Line, Genie Masucci. Costing $6.5 million, the improvement includes a sundeck, children’s playground, walking paths, native trees, grass, shrubs, a fire pit, and gazebos and is being…

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