Celebrating 15 years of Welcome2TheBronx

Remembering 9/11

Now available: Truly affordable apartments in The Bronx starting at $465 a month

Scenes of love at Bronx Pride

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

Is This The Bronx’s Future? Displaced, Dispersed, Disappeared: What Happens to Families Forced Out of Bushwick?

Coming Soon: Bushwick…If We Let It.

The following is syndicated from CityLimits and is very appropriate and applicable to The Bronx as signs of gentrification continue to manifest itself in the South Bronx. Is this what Bronx residents have to look forward to as developers are given free reign by our politicians to come into our neighborhoods and development with rampant disregard?

New York City has become a sterile, cookie-cutter “suburban” city. Neighborhoods in Manhattan and many parts of Brooklyn no longer have a distinct character or are losing them and becoming more homogeneous. Is this what we really want to happen to The Bronx?

Special Harlem River Waterfront District Visioning Session: Real Grassroots Planning Or Just Business As Usual?

On Tuesday, May 5th, the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation—better known as SoBro—held a “second” visioning session on the Special Harlem River Waterfront District to discuss the issues of developing the waterfront, residential, needs, and gentrification issues.

The reason I say second in quotes is because SoBro held a block party last year where they had a small station in a corner where they collected surveys about the waterfront yet that was never heavily promoted. Many residents were unaware that a “first” session had occurred.

Free Mother’s Day Portrait at The Bronx Documentary Center This Sunday!

Come to the Bronx Documentary Center this Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 10th from Noon to 2PM for a free family portrait! Each Bronx family can get 1 FREE print with each additional copies and prints at $5 each. Non-Bronx residents pay $5 per print!

Restoration of Ben Shahn Murals at the Bronx General Post Office Has Begun

Now that the Bronx General Post Office is in the private hands of developer YoungWoo & Associates, work has begun on restoring the 13 iconic and landmarked Ben Shahn murals in the lobby.

The building, which opened on May 15, 1937 after 2 years of construction, was the largest of the 29 New Deal Era edifices built in New York City. In 1976 the building received landmark status from NYC’s Landmark Commission and in 2013, after Welcome2TheBronx broke the news that the United States Postal Service was selling the property, the interior lobby was granted landmark status as well—a feat that is not easy to achieve.

Bronx Fashion Week To Benefit Children in Need

Hosted by La Bruja, this Saturday, May 9th, the event will include poetry readings and live entertainment. A percentage of the proceeds raised during the event will go to “Gift to Empower” a 501(c)(3) (pending) organization which has helped over 4,000 Bronx children in need in the past 10 years, particularly those living in shelters, where they receive a backpack filled with school supplies for the new school year.

Ottantaquattro anni fa apriva l’Empire State Building. Fra gli altri, da ringraziare, c’è un abitante del Bronx

Il primo Maggio del 1931, dopo due anni di costruzione, apriva al pubblico l’Empire State Building, iconico edificio in stile Art Deco, che rimarrà per quarant’anni la struttura più alta del mondo.

Ma qui non tratto dell’edificio, ma di uno degli uomini che aiutò a costruire questo ingegnoso monumento americano, un certo Aniello Conte, un Italiano, immigrato in America clandestinamente.

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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