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Bike Shop on Courtlandt Avenue @ East 150th Street – another fine example of graffiti…
David Gonzalez of the New York Times wrote a most excellent piece on graffiti yesterday, “Graffiti’s…
Don’t forget to get your tickets as they are quickly selling out and space is…
Check out this amazing video montage of Melrose and the surrounding neighborhoods during the 1970’s…
- The South Bronx will lose its last movie theater next month leaving the borough with just one
- The Bronx needs to think big to combat the affordable housing crisis
- Every day is Earth Day in The Bronx
- Hope for connecting The Bronx directly to Queens and Brooklyn via the Interborough Express is revived
- Historic $1 billion donation made to The Bronx’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine to provide free tuition
A brand new development in the Mott Haven is now accepting applications for affordable apartments. Located at 405 E 146th Street at Willis Avenue, Betances VI Family Apartments was constructed on NYCHA…
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Welcome2Melrose HEARTS the BoogieDowners!
Thanks to the our favorite BoogieDowners, a Welcome2Melrose article was featured in NewYorkBlips, “a one-stop access to all the breaking news, rumors, and commentary from expert sources around the Web.” This is a great honor since they day that “If it’s hot, if people are talking about it, searching for it or sounding off on…
Melrose Person of the Year
So a few weeks ago it was mentioned that the Melrose Person of 2009 would be revealed and although it is already 19 days into the new year, it is better late than ever. When I first started this blog, its goal was to focus not only on Melrose but its surrounding neighborhoods as well…
Picture of the Day – Melrose Rising
Construction cranes working on St. Anns Terrace in the background. Foreground: Another construction project rising. Ed García CondeThe "Mayor" of Melrose917-532-7504http://www.welcome2melrose.com
Melrose Murals and the Arts
Over the next few months, Welcome2Melrose will be featuring photographs of local murals as well as works of art by graffiti artists. While some may disagree that graffiti is not art and is vandalism, it is our goal to open your minds to see it as a form of expression. Not all forms of graffiti are…
Picture of the Day
Typical Sunday at BJ's in the Gateway Center Mall…after only 3 weeks from opening, this location became the third HIGHEST grossing store in the entire COUNTRY! Ed García CondeThe "Mayor" of Melrose917-532-7504http://www.welcome2melrose.com
Welcome2Melrose Continues to Get Around in Local Media
As most of you already know, welcome2melrose.com has been featured in such local papers and TV like the Bronx Times, Mott Haven Herald and News 12 The Bronx (video is archived) to name a few. Well the last few weeks have been pretty exciting for welcome2melrose! On December 26, 2009, I was quoted in The New…
- The South Bronx will lose its last movie theater next month leaving the borough with just one
- The Bronx needs to think big to combat the affordable housing crisis
- Every day is Earth Day in The Bronx
- Hope for connecting The Bronx directly to Queens and Brooklyn via the Interborough Express is revived
- Historic $1 billion donation made to The Bronx’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine to provide free tuition