Last week, Governor Kathy Hochul directed the Metropolitan Transit Authority to move forward with taking…
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Belcalis Marlenis Almánza, born in Washington Heights and raised in The Bronx and best known…
Another affordable housing lottery has been launched in The Bronx, this time in the Fordham…
MELROSE—When it opened in the summer of 2017, Porto Salvo quickly became a neighborhood favorite…
Applications are now being accepted for 119 brand-new apartments located at 980 Westchester Avenue in…
When Salim Drammeh set out to raise funds for the Gambian Youth Organization for the…
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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Worst blaze in NYC history claims lives of 19 Bronx residents including 9 children
The Bronx, yet again, finds itself at the center of another tragic fire that has claimed a record number of lives unseen since the Happy Land Social club arson that killed 87 in 1990. Nineteen lives perished, including nine children as a result of a fire that broke out at Twin Parks North West located…
The Bronx has the highest COVID positivity rate in NYC in latest surge
The Bronx finds itself once again at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic as positivity rates hit 27% in the borough, the highest in New York City as the Omicron variant proves to be highly more contagious than the original and subsequent variants. And leading the city is the 10468 zip code, which covers parts…
Second ferry stop added in The Bronx, now we need a direct ferry to Queens & Brooklyn
Last week Tuesday, December 28, the Soundview Ferry line was officially extended to Throggs Neck adding a much-needed transportation alternative to a transit-starved area at Ferry Point Park. For commuters in the area, the trek to Wall Street, where the ferry line ends, can take over 90 minutes by bus and subway as there is…
Apply for brand new affordable apartments in The Bronx starting at $396/mo
The blight once known as Spofford Juvenile Detention center in the Hunts Point neighborhood of The Bronx is no more and in its place a massive 740 unit, four building mixed-use development is rising. Located at 720 Tiffany Street, now, the first building at The Peninsula, as the development is called, is accepting applications for…
Apply for Brand New Apartments in Morris Heights Starting at $947/mo
A brand new affordable housing development in the Morris Heights section of The Bronx is now accepting applications for sixty of its units. Called Jerome Avenue Apartments, the development is located at 1769 Jerome Avenue at 176th Street, directly in front of the 176th Street Station on the 4 line, and is yet another development…
Plans filed for mega $2 Billion development in The Bronx
Two years ago, ‘Fordham Landing’ was proposed as a massive redevelopment of the Harlem River Waterfront in The Bronx directly south of the University Heights Bridge at Fordham Road that would bring thousands of residential units to the area. Now, the developer has filed plans for the first building in the development which would rise…