Located on 152nd Street and Wales Avenue just beyond Melrose and Mott Haven you will find Piraña’s delightful truck. For years my friends and I have frequented this place and it definitely one of our favorites so we’re surprised that Gothamist actually even included a Bronx food truck!
Here’s what they had to say:
Gabe Pressman, A senior correspondent for NBC came to The Bronx, the borough of his birth and where he was raised, to do a segment on Port Morris. The 90 year old award winning journalist took a tour of the area an local businesses such as Port Morris Distillery, Charlie’s Kitchen, and Jamie Jones’ The Shoppe Bx.
Check out the video below and tell us what you think? This journalistic segment further solidifies why FreshDirect does NOT belong in a residential neighborhood like Port Morris with over 3,000 truck trips daily plus extra vehicular traffic.
Welcome2TheBronx first broke the exclusive story, back on January 2013, that the landmark Bronx General Post Office was for sale. Subsequently the story was immediately picked up by the New York Times in an article by Donald Dunlap. Now after almost 2 years speculation of what the fate of the beloved Post Office would be, Welcome2TheBronx has learned via Denis Slattery of the Daily News that the General Post Office has been sold to developer Young Woo & Associates.
Gabe Pressman, A senior correspondent for NBC came to The Bronx, the borough of his birth and where he was raised, to do a segment on Port Morris. The 90 year old award winning journalist took a tour of the area an local businesses such as Port Morris Distillery, Charlie’s Kitchen, and Jamie Jones’ The Shoppe Bx.
Check out the video below and tell us what you think? This journalistic segment further solidifies why FreshDirect does NOT belong in a residential neighborhood like Port Morris with over 3,000 truck trips daily plus extra vehicular traffic.
We’re excited to learn that the popular and 3 time Emmy winning and 12 Emmy nominated Netflix original show, Orange Is The New Black, will be filming on location for their 3rd season this coming Monday, September 8th on City Island.
The show has several Bronx connections including one of the main characters, Gloria Mendoza who is played by Cuban born and Bronx raised actress Selenis Leyva and the popular opening song is written and performed by Moscow born and Bronx raised Regina Spektor.
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
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…
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.
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.
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!
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.
Earlier this month, Stephanie Hoina of the Morris Park neighborhood of The Bronx achieved one of her dreams in life: To publish a book.
On August 2nd, Whimsical Publications, LLC released Hoina’s first book, ‘Kissing Atticus Primble’, a coming of age story about a young high school girl named Kathleen who is suddenly confronted with love, romance and all the decisions and consequences that come along with them.
Here’s a brief Q&A we did with Stephanie so take a few minutes to get to know about this awesome Bronx resident and why she embarked on this journey of publishing a book!
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.
