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LATEST NEWS

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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Yankee Stadium Charity Neglects South Bronx Neighborhood It’s Supposed To Help

Take from the poor, give to the rich. The New York Times just published a scathing article on the New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund which was founded to make peace with a furious community at the taking over of 25 acres of beloved parkland to create the new Yankee Stadium. But are we surprised…

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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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WATCH: How The Bronx Brought Breaking to The World

Whatever you call it, b-boying, breaking, breakdancing there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind who knows anything about Hip Hop and its origins that this urban dance form was born here in The Bronx influenced by the predominantly Puerto Rican dancers who created this style of dancing which became one of the 5 pillars of Hip…

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