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Cats. Come on let’s face it: They’re the real reason you walk into a bodega.…
[NOTE: This post has been updated on 7/12 at 2:00PM to reflect that the Village…
Mott Haven Herald The office of Community Board 1 became a cauldron of body heat…
The Washington Post just issued a news alert that the House has passed the Farm…
Just last week we spoke about this very issue and SoBro’s plan to save the…
- 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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Is J.Lo, AKA Jennifer Lopez, Still ‘Jenny From The Block’?
As a contemporary fellow Bronxite of Jennifer Lopez, I grew up looking at her and admiring her many accomplishments. She made it out of the Bronx. But was her life really as hard as she claims? J. Lo lived in the Castle Hill neighborhood of the Bronx which was and is worlds apart from the…
Huffington Post on the Bronx: “…the pattern, found across the country, of making poor communities society’s dumping ground is unjust and demands a solution.”
Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis, Co-directors of Measure of America had an entry published in the Huffington Post today which not only discusses the great divide of inequality which plagues our borough and leads to environmental racism but uses the Bronx as a case of what happens to economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in the shadows of…
Don’t Miss The Great Bronx Bar Tour This Saturday!
$30 bucks in advance or $40 on Saturday from 11AM – 8PM will give you access to amazing deals at 20 participating Bronx watering holes as well as unlimited transportation between them during the first ever Great Bronx Bar Tour! The journey will take you across the borough along with folks from the Bronx County…
URGENT – FreshDirect Returns to CB1 This Wednesday
In another victory for the community against the FreshDirect sweetheart deal move to the Bronx, CB1 will reconvene this Wednesday as FreshDirect representatives return to answer to the board – something which they were undemocratically prevented from doing almost two weeks ago. Although the full board was not to meet until September and several senior…
‘Castle on the Concourse’ PS 31 To Be Rescued?
Last month I mentioned that on Community Board 1’s agenda, other than FreshDirect, was the future of PS 31 on the Grand Concourse and East 144th Street – the grand landmarked yet abandoned school affectionately known as the Castle on the Concourse. After the heated FreshDirect session, representatives for SoBro came up and gave a…
Sign Latino Rebels’ Petition Asking Goya To Remove Their Logo From The Roberto Clemente Statue
It’s not just me who noticed how vulgar the Goya logo is on the Roberto Clemente statue. Latino Rebels wrote an excellent piece worth the read. Don’t forget to sign the petition!
- 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