On The Sound is City Island’s first condo development in 15 years and is a 43 unit project on 5 acres in gated community on the Long Island Sound.
With units listing from $488,000 to $988,000, this is easily one of the most expensive developments in The Bronx in a number for years.
‘The Warriors’ is one of many classic, New York City based films of the 70s which made The Bronx and New York City as much of a character in these films as the actual actors.
In conjunction with Paramount and Hulu, The Russo Brothers, “…are taking a breather from the Marvel world to adapt cult-classic film The Warriors as a one-hour drama with Paramount TV and Hulu.
Perhaps the most progressive NYC Council Speaker we’ve had thus far, Melissa Mark-Viverito (who represents District 8 half in The Bronx and the rest in East Harlem), has publicly come out and supported long time ally and staffer, Diana Ayala.
Ayala has been working alongside the Speaker for the past 11 years and I’ve personally witnessed the compassion needed to lead in our communities that face different challenges than other districts in the city.
For decades, the Melrose Alexander’s Department Store on 3rd Ave in The Hub was the place of choice for thousands of Bronxites and part of our borough’s cultural fabric.
Fast forward to 2013, the building was offered for sale for over $22 million but eventually sold for $16.2 million.
Founded in 1928 at that very location, Alexander’s became a Bronx institution catering to the Jewish, Italian, and Irish immigrants and later the African-American and Puerto Rican community.
Due to the NYPD not updating their missing person’s list, City Councilman Andy King of…
Announced at a press conference today, The Bronx (along with Brooklyn) will be the home of a new development of New York City’s first senior housing development with services benefiting the elder LGBT community.
The 82 unit Crotona Senior Residences will be developed by NYC Housing and Preservation, HELP USA, NY State Homes along with Community Renewal and SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders).
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…
‘The Get Down‘, Baz Lurhmann’s latest project which will be released on Netflix on August 12th, 2016, is a drama based in the South Bronx during the 70s just as Hip-Hop was emerging amidst the burning years and strife. But during those years there was plenty of life going on in our neighborhoods. We are…
While standing on the shore, Nilka Martell immediately noticed something out of place—a tombstone of a young Jewish girl named Pearl Sternberg who passed away at the age of 10 on August 5, 1929 just laying there on the beach.
In a neighborhood and borough on the edge because of gentrification, the fight continues and this time it’s taken a personal face against someone once seen as our hero.
Someone has begun placing stickers calling Majora Carter a traitor and associating her with the hashtag #ColumbusSyndrome, a term that is often used when talking about gentrification and how people approach gentrifying areas with a colonizer’s mentality.
Welcome2TheBronx’s intern, Isaiah Keaton, contributed to this reporting. Summertime is one of my favorite times of the year but more importantly, at least for myself, is that it’s the beginning of farmers market season. Most begin during June and July and go straight through November across The Bronx and each one has their own distinct…
It’s not every day a Bronx fashion designer gets a boost from major entertainer like Beyoncé and her mother Tina Knowles who’s famous in her own right as a businesswoman and fashion designer too.
And that’s precisely what happened to Jerome LaMaar who recently plucked roots in Port Morris right next door to Wallworks NY Gallery by the legendary graffiti artist Crash.
Join us tomorrow, Wednesday June 15th from 5PM to 7PM as Bronx Academy of Art and Dance (BAAD) hosts a vigil, ‘The Bronx to Orlando With Love’, on the steps of The Bronx County Courthouse in memory of the victims of the LGBTQ massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in the early hours of this past Sunday.
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