Rare, truly affordable apartments, as low as $454 a month, now available in The Bronx

Housing lottery thinks $4,376 for a two-bedroom in Fordham in The Bronx is “affordable”

Once one of the country’s ‘bluest’ counties, The Bronx takes a dramatic shift to the right

Popular German discount supermarket Lidl to open its first Bronx store next week!

A new area code may be coming to NYC in 2026

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Fordham Makes Bronx African American History Project Available to the Public

Fordham University has made public over 300 oral interviews conducted for the Bronx African American…

End of An Era as City Island Bridge Closes After 114 Years in Service

Tonight at 1AM, New York City Department of Transportation will shift traffic to and from City Island in The Bronx to the temporary bridge as the old bridge will be replaced—sadly by a not so charming structure. The bridge has been serving clam diggers & mussel suckers alike for 114 years as well as visitors to the picturesque and quaint New England-like island of The Bronx.

So hurry up before 1AM tonight to take your last trip across that famous bridge—or you can take a special “one last ride” across the bridge tomorrow, Friday, December 18th at 3PM starting from Legion Triangle on the City Island side.
A new traffic pattern will be enacted effective Friday, December 18th at 1AM so be sure to take a look below at the images. You will no longer be allowed to make a left when coming off the bridge and onto City Island.

Bronx Documentary Center Spring 2016 Internship Opportunity

The Bronx Documentary Center is seeking 1-2 qualified interns, “…with a passion for documentary photography and film and desire for social change,” and Bronx candidates are strongly urged to apply. Application deadline is January 3rd, 2016

Vintage Photos of Morris Park—Before It Was Developed

Decades before The Bronx neighborhood of Morris Park came to be, it was home to the 360 acre Morris Park Racecourse which ran from 1889 until 1904 as an important center of American thoroughbred horse racing which was the home of the Belmont Stakes from 1890 until 1904 and even saw the famous Preakness Stakes in 1890.

Bronx Residents Seek Expanded Waterfront Access Along The Hudson River

Although The Bronx is on the mainland, as a peninsula, we are surrounded by water yet access to our waterfront is limited especially in the West Bronx.

Now a group is pushing for greater access to the Hudson River in Riverdale by expanding a small 600 foot park by 2 miles all the way north to the Westchester County border at the City of Yonkers.

C-3PO, The Iconic Star Wars Droid, Almost Had a “Bronx Accent” According to Actor

Yes, you read that correctly. According to an interview in The New Yorker with Anthony Daniels, the British actor who plays the iconic C-3PO in the Star Wars franchise, was supposed to have a “Bronx” accent as George Lucas had imagined he would.

Neighborhoods

Massive fire sweeps through The Hub destroying six business including beloved Holland Textiles

Housing lottery launches for brand new and truly affordable housing in The Bronx

Key Bronx Lawmakers Yet to Back Crucial Legislation for Bronx Casino

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…

Another Bronx landmark for sale: Old Bronx Courthouse on the market for $35 million

With Congestion Pricing coming this summer, the MTA needs to drop Metro-North fares for Bronx residents

Neighborhoods

More residential units were completed in the South Bronx in 2023 than anywhere in New York City

The Bronx needs to think big to combat the affordable housing crisis

Historic $1 billion donation made to The Bronx’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine to provide free tuition

Apply now for brand new affordable apartments as low as $617 for a 1 bedroom in Mott Haven

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All-Latina Bronx Skateboarders Are Not Just About Skating

Call them Brujas (Spanish for witches), an all Latina skate crew right here in our borough. But they’re not just women skating in a male-dominated sport but are also socially aware challenging and questioning the world we live in.

Dazed Digital writes:

For the Brujas girls, their crew is about more than skating: it’s about friendship, and the radical potential of sisterhood to foster real support systems, outside the mainstream social norms. They see the preventative and healing power of friendship as a source of collective empowerment, especially in the context of Western medicine and philosophy, where it’s discouraged to tap into extra-spiritual realms.

Earlier this week we posted a list of holiday gift ideas made right here in The Bronx. This Saturday and Sunday you can purchase some of those items and more at The Bronx Museum Holiday Market!

The Bronx Museum is located at 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street.

These past few years, the transgender community (the oft-overlooked T in LGBTQ) has been getting more and more attention in the spotlight as individuals like Laverne Cox of Orange Is The New Black fame and formerly Bruce Jenner of Olympic medal-winning fame turned Kardashian superstar who transitioned into Caitlyn Jenner earlier this year.
But that is the “glamorous” side of this community.

Kim Watson, a Bronx woman and “unrelenting advocate of the LGBT community in The Bronx,” can stay right here in her home with her family in our borough after being threatened with deportation back to her native Barbados where she feared going back.

From coffee coloring books (and coffee too) from Morris Perk, to The Bronx Hot Sauce, upcycled wearable art as bow-ties by Wonder Lee, or tasty spirits from Port Morris Distillery, this handy holiday guide will help you keep your money (and you!) local!
The best gift you can give this season is to support local, small businesses all the while making someone smile!

Join the Bronx Music Heritage Center for the first ever Parranda, the traditional fun-filled Puerto Rican way of celebrating the holidays in this inaugural event that will take on a different theme each year!

The event is scheduled for Monday, December 21st and kicks off at the Bronx Documentary Center at 4pm.

If you’ve never been to a parranda or know what it is, it’s basically Christmas caroling on steroids with traditional Puerto Rican instruments and the crowd grows as it goes from place to place, picking folks up along the way.

Bronxites see it all the time: An ad for the perfect apartment which they can afford but then the line that sinks their hopes—”sorry, no Section 8 or programs.”

Many hard working Bronx residents working low wage jobs, qualify for such lifelines like rental assistance to get them by and even those who are unemployed for health reasons too.

But it is illegal, yes illegal, for a landlord to deny housing to someone based on their legal income which includes section 8 programs and the likes.