If you’re from The Bronx then you know about Metro Optics, a local home-grown small business that is still operated by the same owners for over 40 years. Like many businesses, they…

This is perhaps the most difficult post we’ve ever written because we have never asked for donations for Welcome2TheBronx but the current COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything. Like many of you, we…

This past Saturday, May 2nd the weather was finally nice enough for one of my long bike rides which is one of the things I love doing with such gorgeous weather: See…

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every segment of our lives as shutdowns due to the rapid infection rate of the coronavirus gripped our city, state, and nation. Not even farmers have escaped…

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has taken another toll, this time New York City’s iconic round the clock subway service in a city that never sleeps. Governor Andrew Cuomo has just announced that…

Donut lovers rejoice: After much anticipation, The Bronx’s FIRST Krispy Kreme is now open! Ever since we first reported back in January that the famous donut shop was coming to The Bronx,…

After waiting for so many years, Citi Bike is finally arriving in The Bronx within the next couple of weeks as docking stations will be installed across the Melrose, Mott Haven, and…

Tucked away near one of the southernmost points in The Bronx is Port Morris Distillery which has been making Puerto Rican pitorro, the island’s version of moonshine, for almost a decade. Over…

A month ago I wrote an article calling for New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo to convert the Kingsbridge Armory into a temporary emergency COVID-19 hospital due to the fact that it…

With the outbreak of COVID-19, aka the coronavirus, upending our lives and how we function as a society, this particular story of a 16 year old kid from The Bronx adapting to…