Back in February of this year we broke the story via welcome2melrose.com that our beloved…
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If you build it, they will come. For the better part of the year, Crunch…
Smack dab in the heart of the South Bronx on one of its main streets…
It’s the video everyone’s talking about and it’s no wonder. Broadway actress and impressionist, Christina…
Please come-out and join this community forum on the death of 14-yr. old Shaaliver Douse.…
We have just learned that Maria del Carmen Arroyo has been denied public Funds for…
- 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
- Popular German discount supermarket Lidl to open its first Bronx store next week!
- A new area code may be coming to NYC in 2026
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…
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Army Returning to the Bronx to Play Football At Yankee Stadium While NHL Will Bring Hockey in January 2014
Army football team, which already has played at the new Yankee Stadium is working on returning to the Bronx and play one game a year beginning in 2014. In 2014, Army will play Connecticut followed by Rutgers in 2015 and are currently working on bringing Notre Dame in 2016. Meanwhile, the National Hockey League is…
Bronx Resident David Floyd Topples Stop & Frisk As Judge Rules Policy Violated Rights
A question first and only asked here 5 months ago has been answered. On March 19th I asked our readership, “Will a Bronxite Bring Down Stop & Frisk?” and this morning judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled, in a 195 page decision, that the controversial policy violated the Fourth Amendment as well as 14th Amendment. The…
Undocumented Bronx activist who went to Mexico to protest U.S. deportation policy is headed home – Via NY Daily News
Unless you’re from the Bronx, many people don’t realize that our borough is home to a very large and vibrant Mexican community particularly in the Melrose and Mott Haven neighborhoods. You have Dominican bodegas right beside Mexican bodegas as well as Mexican restaurants sharing the block with Puerto Rican or Dominican ones. Here we have…
Dr Sanjay Gupta: Why I changed my mind on weed (CNN)
Many of our men in the Bronx end up incarcerated over “criminal” possession of marijuana and children are torn away from safe, nurturing environments when their mothers test positive for use of the substance. All in the name of the War on Drugs. (Watch the documentary, The House I Live In on Netflix on the…
Residents, community boards demand that city ramp up staffing at parks throughout the Bronx
Today the Daily News posted an important article on how Bronxites are fed up with the lack of staff and coverage for our parks. Our borough is the greenest of the 5 counties which make up this beautiful city of ours. We are home to the largest and 3rd largest park in the city yet…
Bronx Borough Hall Farmers Market In Full Swing
As is my Tuesday ritual, I took a walk over to the Grand Concourse and 161st Street so that I could stock up on a week’s worth of vegetables and let me tell you $25 gets you a lot! I was able to walk away with 9 ears of corn, 2 bags of Bok Choy,…
- 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
- Popular German discount supermarket Lidl to open its first Bronx store next week!
- A new area code may be coming to NYC in 2026