Horace Mann School, one of New York City’s most prestigious college prep schools which is…
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I grew up on Morris Avenue and 151st Street in the South Bronx neighborhood of…
The New York City Council has overwhelmingly voted to remove Councilman Andy King from office…
According to a mayoral scorecard, only 85.6% of Bronx streets were rated “acceptably” clean in…
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Two Bronx zip codes covering a large swath of East Bronx neighborhoods have shown a…
- 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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Welcome2TheBronx Celebrates 11 Years of Bringing The Bronx to You
Eleven years ago, I decided to start a blog because I was tired of the constant negative portrayal of The Bronx in the mainstream media. Each time I’d Google The Bronx, images of a burnt out borough that no longer existed—that hadn’t existed for decades—would be the first thing to come up. Even the news…
From The Bronx to the World on 9/11
If you didn’t live in NYC or were here, you will never comprehend 8:46AM on 9/11. You won’t understand what it feels like to spontaneously just cry your soul out when you remember. You may have watched it on TV and read about it, saw the horrific images but if you didn’t live here or…
A Tale of Two Cities as Upper West Side ‘Resolves’ a Crisis Bronx Residents Have Battled for Decades
The Bronx Has been an unfortunate dumping ground for the city’s troubles for decades. Whether industries that heavily rely on intensive truck traffic which spews deadly pollution into our communities to medical waste incinerators the city has allowed to operate in the most vulnerable communities of The Bronx, we have been a veritable dumping ground…
Discount Retailer 5 Below is Coming to the South Bronx
MELROSE—Discount retailer 5 Below, which sells products for, you guessed it, under $ bucks, is opening its first South Bronx store. The giant retailer will join Burlington and Marshall’s at the old Alexander Department store building on Third Avenue in The Hub, The Bronx’s oldest shopping district and work is already underway at the ground-floor…
A White Professor Pretended to be a Puerto Rican Woman From The Bronx
Yesterday the activist community was met with the bombshell news that a local activist and professor of African American studies who claimed to be an afrolatina Puerto Rican woman from The Bronx was in fact a white, Jewish woman. Jess La Bombera was not in fact from The Bronx but Jessica A. Krug from Kansas…
White Supremacist and Antisemitic Graffiti in the South Bronx Cleaned Up by Locals
MELROSE—A law firm on 161st was vandalized yesterday with a swastika and the words “white power”. But several local residents were not having it and got together and painted over it and drew a flower over the racist garbage. “We didn’t want that in our community,” said a local resident who wishes to remain anonymous…
- 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