MOTT HAVEN—Applications are now being accepted for 277 brand-new apartments in the tallest building on the Grand Concourse via New York City’s Housing Connect affordable housing lottery website. Located at 425 Grand…
For decades, the Congressional District representing most of the South Bronx, currently the 15th Congressional District of New York, has been labeled as the poorest such district in the nation where the…
Several years ago, newer developments in the South Bronx, particularly in the Port Morris and Mott Haven area, were renting luxury apartments with rents as high as just over $4,000 for four…
With winter in full swing and recent brutal temperatures battering the city, many in The Bronx are feeling its impact more than others across the city. In fact, the situation is so…
A vital, yet dangerous connection between The Bronx and Westchester County has taken a step closer to remediation of constant flooding and icing during the winter creating hazardous conditions. For residents of…
Last week, Governor Kathy Hochul directed the Metropolitan Transit Authority to move forward with taking a look to see if an Interborough Express line (IBX) connecting Brooklyn and Queens would be feasible.…
Belcalis Marlenis Almánza, born in Washington Heights and raised in The Bronx and best known as Hip-Hop megastar Cardi B, has announced that she will cover the funeral and burial costs for…
Another affordable housing lottery has been launched in The Bronx, this time in the Fordham neighborhood of the borough. Cyrus Place Apartments, located at 4697 Third Avenue at Cyrus Place just south…
MELROSE—When it opened in the summer of 2017, Porto Salvo quickly became a neighborhood favorite and gathering place for both locals and those who work in the neighborhood. While the South Bronx…
Applications are now being accepted for 119 brand-new apartments located at 980 Westchester Avenue in the Foxhurst neighborhood of The Bronx. This is another affordable housing development where the units are actually…
When Salim Drammeh set out to raise funds for the Gambian Youth Organization for the victims of Sunday’s deadly fire at Twin Parks North West in the Fordham area of The Bronx,…
Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Greg B. Smith, THE CITY In 2018, a year after a fire in a residential building killed 12 in his district, then-Bronx City Council member Ritchie Torres co-sponsored…
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