Peter Satir, PhD, a cell biologist who graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1952 and is currently faculty at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has received the highest honor in his field from the American Society for Cell Biology.
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Born in Bombay and raised in the Bronx, Qurrat Ann Kadwani has made history in becoming the first South Asian Female to have an Off-Broadway show. The award-winning ‘They Call Me Q!’ is a 60 minute one-woman show in which Kadwani plays 13 characters giving the audience a window into her life and challenges she faced growing up. She has performed the show over 50 times across the country as well as in Canada.
Qurrat took some time from her busy schedule, as she gets ready for the show’s first night on May 19th, to chat with us.
In what is being touted as ‘Giving Back To The Block That Raised Her Up’, JLo will be performing for the first time EVER in the Bronx. Perhaps JLo or her people really ARE reading Welcome2TheBronx. We’ve been the ONLY ones out there that have criticized her for not giving more to the community that she claims made who she is.
The latest news about the “new” City Island Bridge is that the cable-stayed bridge pushed by the Bloomberg administration has been scrapped. In its place, a “plain vanilla” causeway bridge has been proposed.
Who’s idea was that? It turns out that the plan was hatched during a secret closed-door meeting reportedly on Friday, May 2, 2014. The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) was there. Our local city and state public officials were there. A couple of people claiming to represent The City Island Civic Association and the City Island Chamber of Commerce were also there, both supposedly representing City Island residents and merchants who didn’t know what was going down.
In his New York Daily News op-ed, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. discussed the newest proposal by Move NY to impose tolls on the currently free East River bridges and for driving in Manhattan below 60th Street. The novelty in this proposal is that prices on bridges close to mass transit would be raised while those in “transit deserts” would be lowered. In spite of herculean efforts by proponents to avoid the term, Diaz correctly identified this proposal as “congestion pricing.”
As some readers know (and perhaps even she herself does too), I’ve been pretty critical and have written about Bronxite JLo’s, aka Jenny from the Block, aka Jennifer Lopez, lack of truly giving back to the Bronx and borough she is always claiming as being a part of.
Well it appears that we can finally say with confidence that this is no longer the case.
- New York City Selects Developers for Long-Abandoned Kingsbridge Armory
- Construction begins on the tallest building in the South Bronx
- Rare, truly affordable apartments, as low as $454 a month, now available in The Bronx
- Housing lottery thinks $4,376 for a two-bedroom in Fordham in The Bronx is “affordable”
- Once one of the country’s ‘bluest’ counties, The Bronx takes a dramatic shift to the right
MELROSE—A four alarm fire that started this morning around 5AM at a Dunkin’ Donuts quickly spread and destroyed five other businesses before the FDNY could get it under control. The blaze and…
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NYCHA Residents Get Dirty & Begin A Garden At Their Building
Meet Crystal, Felix and Victor of 370 East 153rd Street, a NYCHA building in Melrose. These family members have been tired of looking at the poor condition of the landscaping around their building and have decided to take matters into their own hands.
Free Mother’s Day Portrait At the Bronx Documentary Center
The Bronx Documentary Center continues its holiday portrait tradition of providing one free print per family for Mother’s Day this Sunday.
Come to the BDC between Noon and 2PM for your one free portrait (additional prints are extra).
The Bronx Documentary Center is located at 614 Courtlandt Avenue at 151st Street.
Street Renaming This Saturday in Honor of Miguel A. (Mike) Amadeo, Owner Of Oldest NYC Latin Music Store
This Saturday, May 10th at 2:00PM, Miguel A. (Mike) Amadeo will be honored with a street naming in his honor. Amadeo is the owner of a Bronx musical institution, Casa Amadeo —New York City’s longest running latin music store —since 1969 which was founded by his sister back in 1941.
ProjectBronx: Street Art Vs Graffiti
This week Adam Levine-Peres asks locals from the Bronx, if their is a difference between Street Art and Graffiti?
Do art murals hold a historical significances in certain communities?
Watch the video and tell us what you think!
Bronx Burning: A Documentary By Edwin Pagán
Edwin Pagán, a “New York-based filmmaker, Photographer, cinematographer, screenwriter and cultural activist,” will begin filming Bronx Burning this June and is seeking individuals who lived those terrible years of our borough and have any personal, unique, or little known stories they’d like to share.
According to the film’s Facebook page:
“Bronx Burning tells the story of the tragic events and misguided policies that almost led to the complete destruction of a major U.S. city and the residents who decided to stay and fight to re-claim their neighborhoods and brought them back from the ashes of neglect, economic opportunism and political indifference.
Bronx Burning recounts one of the most concentrated and widespread cases of arson in modern history and explores the reasons why, despite a crisis of epic proportions, those responsible for orchestrating the most rampant and longest-lasting “fire-for-hire” crime waves have never been brought to justice.
80 Years Later, Bronx County Courthouse & Borough Hall Still As Grand
2014 is quite the year for major Bronx anniversaries. The Bronx County Courthouse and our beloved Borough Hall celebrates the 80th anniversary of the opening of its doors for official business.
In 1934, just 20 years after Bronx County was created, the grand old building was opened up by Mayor LaGuardia in a 3 day celebration of the building’s construction. LaGuardia even moved the seat of government for New York City to the Bronx for 3 days to mark the occasion.
- New York City Selects Developers for Long-Abandoned Kingsbridge Armory
- Construction begins on the tallest building in the South Bronx
- Rare, truly affordable apartments, as low as $454 a month, now available in The Bronx
- Housing lottery thinks $4,376 for a two-bedroom in Fordham in The Bronx is “affordable”
- Once one of the country’s ‘bluest’ counties, The Bronx takes a dramatic shift to the right