A couple of months ago we sat down with Bob Diamond, Chairman of the Brooklyn Historical Railway Association, along with several members of BHRA and Bronxite Richard Garey of the West Bronx. For some time now, Richard and I had been discussing the poor transit options in the West Bronx and the vacuum left behind when the Third Avenue El was ripped, leaving a hole in Morrisania straight up to Fordham forcing millions to make do with buses and transfers leading to longer commutes.
A couple of months ago we sat down with Bob Diamond, Chairman of the Brooklyn Historical Railway Association, along with several members of BHRA and Bronxite Richard Garey of the West Bronx. For some time now, Richard and I had been discussing the poor transit options in the West Bronx and the vacuum left behind when the Third Avenue El was ripped, leaving a hole in Morrisania straight up to Fordham forcing millions to make do with buses and transfers leading to longer commutes.
After much voting (and folks arguing online on who the best neighborhood would be) City Island is Curbed’s Neighborhood of the Year!
Congratulations to The Bronx and all the Clamdiggers and Musselsuckers for coming out and voting. It’s not much but it gives our community and borough some bragging rights since Curbed, after all, is the premier real estate blog in NYC.
After much voting (and folks arguing online on who the best neighborhood would be) City Island is Curbed’s Neighborhood of the Year!
Congratulations to The Bronx and all the Clamdiggers and Musselsuckers for coming out and voting. It’s not much but it gives our community and borough some bragging rights since Curbed, after all, is the premier real estate blog in NYC.
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The New York Botanical Garden, along with Columbia University and local botánicas — long associated with Santeria and other similar religions from the Caribbean, teamed up together to explore how a botánica can function as a health care option in The Bronx.
“The botanicas don’t only serve health, but people’s well being,” explains Ina Vandebroek, an ethnobotanist at the New York Botanical Garden who has studied botánicas for years. “They correspond well with the definition offered by the World Health Organization that defines health not only as the state where there is absence of disease, but as the state where there is complete physical, emotional and social wellbeing. And that’s what botánicas do,” she says.
Last week, we received notice that our borough was the least affordable rental market in the country. Many jumped the bandwagon with sensationalist headlines declaring The Bronx as the least affordable rental market in the nation without actually delving into how this came to be.
It’s definitely not because our “rent is too damn high,” but due to the fact that many of our residents barely earn enough to survive.
Curbed, New York City’s top real estate blog is holding its 11th Annual Neighborhood of the Year Award — And City Island in The Bronx has entered the finals quite easily.
In the first round, City Island toppled the ever popular West Chelsea in Manhattan in a big and unexpected upset. During the second round of voting, City Island trounced upon Tribeca and once again emerged victorious.
Now our beautiful nautical City Island is battling against Crown Heights to enter the final round of competition.
We all know City Island easily beats landlocked Crown Heights, hands down so let’s get to the voting polls and show NYC what we’re made of!
Click to VOTE: Curbed Cup Final Four: Crown Heights vs. City Island – Curbed Cup 2014 – Curbed NY.
Watch this Bronxite (video below) getting down and funky with his harmonica as he plays ‘Bronx Christmas Country Blues’ in Van Cortlandt Park in Riverdale.
Fodor’s, one of the go to guides for all things travel around the globe, has named Bronxite Alexandra Maruri’s ‘Bronx Historical Tours’ one of the ‘7 Best New York City Tours Outside of Manhattan’. Not only is this a great honor for our wonderful borough to be featured as such but we couldn’t think of a better person than Alexandra Maruri and her company to receive such accolades.
The Wall Street Journal reports that developer, Arker Cos, just purchased 18 buildings, mostly in Morrisania section of The Bronx, and plans on $70.5 million in upgrading the units with new kitchens, bathrooms and other undisclosed improvements — all while keeping them affordable. All the units are currently subsidized by section-8. Such a move is virtually unheard of in The Bronx and probably throughout the city where a developer comes in and will make major improvements after purchasing such a portfolio and let alone keeping the rents the same.
