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

Battle For Environmental Justice For The South Bronx & Its Waterfront Against FreshDirect Heads To The United Nations

The residents of the South Bronx have been battling the FreshDirect deal to move into our waterfront which would pollute our roadways with heavy truck traffic aggravating an already dire asthma situation.

Now we have one our own residents on his way to the United Nations Climate summit where he will be able to represent the united voices of South Bronx residents and more than 50 community based organizations against this careless and deadly deal.

Arthur “Mychal” Johnson of South Bronx Unite Selected to Attend Historic United Nations Climate Summit with more than 100 Global Heads of State and 37 Civil Society Representatives

Senator Ted Cruz, Republican From Texas Bashes Bronx Yet Our Borough Is Safer Than 3 Largest Cities In Texas

Tea Party Republic Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, in an attempt to mock Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, bashed The Bronx as a dangerous place when he said, according to Business Insider, “Now, I understand that Manhattan is very concerned with their security with the Bronx, but it’s a little bit different on 2,000 miles of the Rio Grande.” Senator Cruz said these remarks during a meeting of the conservative Americans For Prosperity’s Defending The American Dream Summit in Dallas, Texas. Guess he doesn’t know his own state and that The Bronx is safer than its 3 largest cities.

Baron Ambrosia & Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Episode In The Bronx To Air In October!

When Bourdain first entertained the idea of coming to the Bronx in December of last year, Welcome2TheBronx immediately wrote post on how if he did he HAD to do it with Baron Ambrosia! We tweeted Bourdain a number of times.

Baron Ambrosia announced yesterday that the episode will air on October 5th.

Bronx Tales Of Yesteryear: Burch and Florence

Florence was dead. Josh cried at the cemetery. He even said Kiddush, the Jewish prayer for the dead. Josh’s family wasn’t religious. He’d never even been bar-mitzvahed, so saying Kiddush was a lot. Josh later said he’d wanted to do the right thing for his mother.

We went back to his house in New Jersey from the cemetery. Florence’s sister Anna was there, now in her nineties, feeble and almost blind. “Why couldn’t they take me,” she wailed. “She was so good.”

Josh, almost fifty, his eyes puffy from crying, took me down to his basement playroom. “I’m an orphan now, Bobby,” he said, his voice breaking. He’d been holding it in all day except for the time at the cemetery. I hugged him.

This Saturday at The Bronx Writers Center: Pure Bronx With Mark Naison, PhD & Melissa-Castillo-Garsow

We’ve had a great month so far, so make sure not to miss our closing event for the urban fiction novel Pure Bronx this coming Saturday. Come meet other writers and mingle with authors Mark Naison PhD and Melissa Castillo-Garsow. See below…great things coming for the fall!

Bronx Week: Bronx Bangladeshi Community Grows as Other Boroughs Become Crowded – NY1

Last week, NY1 reporter Erin Clark did a series of segments on The Bronx and its growing diversity for NY1’s Bronx Week. Here Clark focuses on the ever growing Bangladeshi community.

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

LATEST NEWS

From the Bronx, to Queens, Then Park Slope and Riverdale – NYTimes.com

The New York Times writes about our friend and author, Martin Kleinman on his move back to The Bronx after being absent for so many decades.

Check out this wonderful story about coming back home.

On Friday, September 5th, Bronx Fashion Week will kick off for the first time in Bronx history. This celebration of fashion will be held at the historic mansion, the Andrew Freedman Home on the Grand Concourse and will be a 3-day event lasting until Sunday the 7th.

Welcome2TheBronx is giving away 3 pairs of VIP tickets giving you access to one (1) of the three evenings, from 5:30PM to 9PM, and here’s what you have to do to win the tickets:

Excerpt from The New York Times:

“Nobody would mistake the municipality of Savsjo for the borough of the Bronx.

Savsjo, surrounded by dense forests in southern Sweden between Stockholm and Malmo, has about 5,000 inhabitants (about one-tenth as many as the Co-op City section of the borough alone, but about 10 times as many as the number of Bronxites who claim Swedish heritage). Its medieval churches date to the 12th century (the oldest existing house in the Bronx was built in 1748). Savsjo’s best-known sports team plays handball, not baseball.

And yet the two localities share one largely forgotten favorite son, whose Swedish heritage has only recently been confirmed: Jonas Bronck.

The following is a guest post by John Rozankowski, PhD

For decades, New York City public policy has encouraged large commercial and residential developments without asking the obvious questions: How will the large numbers of people, which these projects attract, get around? Mass transit was rarely discussed. As a result car dependency has grown dramatically with more traffic gridlock, pollution and fatalities the inevitable result.

As public policy became increasingly environmentally conscious, a punitive attitude against drivers has grown: reduction of traffic lanes, the lowering of speed limits, street bumps, cameras, proposals such as congestion pricing and bridge tolls to make driving more expensive, etc. While the intent of these measures is generally good, they do suggest that driving is somehow “evil” and make drivers the scapegoats.

NY1’s Erin Clark reports on the changing demographics of the Bronx and interviewed yours truly from Welcome2TheBronx on the subject. She says: “Everyone’s heard the city referred to as a melting pot, but the Bronx is truly representative of that…Just stand at 149th Street and Third Avenue, the hub, and you’ll see…It’s the borough’s and…

Via Denis Slattery from the Daily News: “South Bronx residents can look forward to a day when their homeowners’ and auto insurance premiums will no longer be inflated by the crimes being reported on Rikers Island. Thanks to a policy change that was quietly ordered by department brass, the jailhouse stats are now being counted…