Satnam Singh apparently went off the edge and beat his mother, Kaul Balbir, over the…
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(image courtesy of: http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/110650509/original.jpg) The City of New York and the New York Yankees gladly took…
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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…
- 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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Melrose Murals
Part of a larger mural in the parking lot behind Nos Quedamos/We Stay depicting the Lady Justice statue of the Old Bronx Courthouse which is a landmark building. Actual Lady Justice at the Old Courthouse
Melrose Neighborhood Featured in NY1
Check out this great segment on the construction going in in Melrose by Shazia Khan of NY1.
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…
- 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