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LATEST NEWS

A Guide to Your Local Bronx Farmers’ Markets

  It’s that time of the year again when farmers’ markets open up across our borough and this year we have a new addition at Fordham Plaza and expanded days at the South Bronx Farmers’ Market! These markets are an extremely important resource for our communities providing additional places to get great produce grown locally…

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Over 50% of Bronx Neighborhoods Experiencing High or Extreme Poverty

According to the Furman Center, almost 1.7 million New Yorkers were living below the poverty line between 2011 and 2015, numbers unseen since 1970. And The Bronx leads the city with over 52% of our neighborhoods in high or extreme poverty. Coupled with more residents that are facing homelessness and are rent burdened than any…

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ACTION! The Bronx’s Second Film Studio is Under Construction

Soundview―The Bronx is Filming. Two years after announcing their expansion to The Bronx, York Studios finally broke ground for their 350,000 square foot studios in our borough on Lafayette along the Bronx River in a 10 acre lot purchased for $7.2 million by the company in 2012. Construction will be done in two phases with…

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