The South Bronx will soon be home to New York City’s largest industrial development known as Bronx Logistics Center, a state-of-the-art, multilevel warehouse
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After several years of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the La Central YMCA in…
Thirty-five years after author Jill Jones published South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection…
MORRIS HEIGHTS—The Bronx’s own Grammy-winning Hip Hop artist, Cardi B, came back to the borough…
It’s been over a year since a lottery was launched for a luxury “affordable” housing…
After a temporary hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pride festivities celebrating The Bronx’s LGBTQIA…
Launched in 2021 and expanded this past summer, the East Bronx Shared E-Scooter Pilot Program is being touted a great success by the New York City Department of Transportation in a report…
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Second person dead in Bronx Legionnaires’ outbreak
The New York City Department of Health has confirmed that a second Bronx resident has died as a result of the latest legionnaires’ outbreak in the Highbridge section of The Bronx which has sickened 24 people since it was first reported almost two weeks ago. Since the outbreak was first detected across the 10452 and…
NYC’s first public observatory is coming to The Bronx
Budding astronomers and stargazers from The Bronx rejoice: New York City’s FIRST public observatory is set to come to the mainland borough this year. After serving students at Nassau Community College on Long Island for over 40 years, the 12 foot tall structure is seeking a new home as it has been retired due to…
Bronx Legionnaires’ outbreak turns deadly as disease claims first victim, hospitalizes 8
The legionnaires outbreak in the Highbridge neighborhood of The Bronx has taken a deadly toll as the first victim has died from the disease while the number of infected has nearly doubled and risen to 19 with 8 hospitalized for this potentially fatal disease. The public was first alerted to the outbreak last Friday, May…
NYC public payphones alive and well in The Bronx
Call it the biggest fake news story of 2022. For the past several days, there has been a media frenzy that the last public payphone in New York City was removed in Times Square, bringing with it an end of an era. But the viral news wasn’t quite accurate and in fact, quite misleading. Although…
Legionnaires’ outbreak in The Bronx rises to 10 cases
Last Friday, the New York City Department of Health announced that it was investigating an outbreak of legionnaires’ in the Highbridge neighborhood of The Bronx where 4 individuals were noted as having contracted the potentially fatal type of pneumonia. Now, as of yesterday, the number of those infected in the area has risen to 10…
Iconic Parkchester statues continue to disappear
Four years ago, Sharon Pandolfo-Perez, who runs The Parkchester Project, reached out to Welcome2TheBronx to inform us about something disturbing: The iconic terracotta statues that adorn the 171 buildings spread across 129 acres in one of the most well-known planned communities in not just The Bronx but New York City were disappearing. Back then, Pandolfo-Perez…