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Welcome2TheBronx to Receive Historic District Council’s Grassroots Preservation Award
This year, along with other organizations and residents from throughout New York City, Welcome2TheBronx™ will be receiving the Historic District Council Grassroots Preservation Award—the very organization who has been involved in the creation of almost all of the 110 historic districts in New York City.
According to HDC Deputy Director Nadezhda Williams, Welcome2TheBronx™ was chosen, “as the 2015 Grassroots Award Friend in the Media winner for your coverage of landmark and land use issues in The Bronx including the sad story of PS 31.”
In the Bronx, Art Fills an Abandoned Neighborhood Landmark – Camera Obscura – Curbed NY
For a community that has only in recent years emerged from the fires, blight, and civic neglect that once scarred the South Bronx landscape, the courthouse’s reopening felt a bit like a homecoming. “It’s like they are seeing an old family member, long lost,” observed Regine Basha, who curated the exhibit for No Longer Empty. “This isn’t our building—it belongs to the community. We just set up the structures through which we could listen to the stories.”
Bartow-Pell Mansion; The Jewel Of The Northeast Bronx
Hidden from plain view, Bartow-Pell Mansion has been sitting inside what is now modern-day Pelham Bay Park—New York City’s largest park at 2,772 acres—since 1842 after 6 years of construction.
You’ve probably passed right by it along Shore Road as you pass Split Rock Golf Course taking the back road into Westchester or simply on your way to Orchard Beach.
It is a place steeped with history that not only occupies the mansion but the land it rests upon and even Pelham Bay Park itself.
Bronx Week Kick Off At The Bronx General Post Office
Bronx Week will officially kick of this Sunday, May 3rd at the Bronx General Post Office on the Grand Concourse and 149th Street in the Concourse/Melrose area of The Bronx.
The event will be filled with local food trucks and vendors, music, children’s activities and art presented by The Bronx Museum and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr will announcing the festivities surrounding the event.
42 Years Ago Today The Third Avenue El Took Its Last Ride
Although long gone from our borough, the Third Avenue El continues to live in the consciousness of Bronxites near and far.
42 years ago today, the Third Avenue El ran for the last time and eventually dismantled leaving parts of Melrose without access to the subway and swaths of Morrisania, Tremont and other areas it ran through without any service at all. Take a ride and watch a historical video of the beloved Third Ave El.
Bronx Earthlings Call 911 To Report UFO: Gothamist
UFO over the Bronx? Not sure but last night folks were calling 911 to report a UFO over 149th Street near Hunts Point. According to the Gothamist, “Another resident theorized that extraterrestrial visitors opted to hover over the Bronx in order “to study us.” “Maybe they want to learn to break dance.”