Phase one of the Hip Hop Museum’s campus is complete, bringing hundreds of apartments to the South Bronx. L+M Development Partners, real estate agency Type A projects, BronxWorks, The Hip Hop Museum, and several elected officials unveiled 542 units of subsidized housing and 2.8 acres of public space on the Harlem River waterfront in the […]
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South Bronx Board Blocks Booze at ‘Bronxlandia’ Event Space
Hunts Point icon Majora Carter says Community Board 2 has thwarted the long-pending liquor license application for her new venue.
Posted inRent Guidelines Board, South Bronx, The Bronx
Tenants Protest Looming Hike as Landlords Duck Bronx Rent Board Hearing
Not a single person spoke in favor of the board’s proposed rent increases at a sparse but vocal airing of testimony at Hostos Community College.
Posted inSouth Bronx, Streets, The Bronx
The ‘Black Benjie Way’: Bronx Peacemaker Whose Killing Led To Gang Truce Honored With Street Naming
The Ghetto Brothers’ unexpected response to his death after he tried to mediate a clash between two other gangs inspired the movie ‘The Warriors’ and paved the way to the birth of hip-hop. Can you dig it?
Posted inReal Estate, South Bronx, The Bronx
Bronx Opera House Where They Danced the Pachanga Could Become a Landmark
From the Barrymores to the Palmieris, the first families of American entertainment have graced the stages of the four-story building in Mott Haven.
Posted inCommunity Boards, Economy, South Bronx, The Bronx
South Bronx Movie Studio Expansion Angles to Open Up Waterfront — and Fence It In
York Studios, which opened its Michaelangelo Campus for film and TV shoots in 2019, wants to add a second studio with a 60-foot ceiling.
Posted inSports
Bronx Soccer Stadium Local Support Wanes as Yankees-City Hall Standoff Goes Into Extra Time
Survey by a local business group highlights concerns over who would really win if a billion-dollar real estate deal for New York City FC home reaches its goal. But residents wouldn’t mind getting discounted stock in a new ballpark.
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PODCAST: Struggling to Breathe in The Bronx in Age of COVID
This story was produced in collaboration with Living Downstream as part of “MISSING THEM,” THE CITY’s ongoing collaborative project to remember every New Yorker killed by COVID-19. The work was supported by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. If you know someone who died or may have died from the coronavirus, share their […]
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Bronx Grapples with ‘Deepest Inequalities in America’ as COVID Surges Again
The city’s painfully slow economic recovery has left The Bronx with the highest unemployment rate of any county in the state and more than 60% of residents on Medicaid amid a growing resurgence of COVID-19. The state Labor Department reported last week that the unemployment rate in The Bronx had declined to 17.5% in October […]
Posted inCoronavirus
Moving Trucks Carry the Dead as Funeral Homes Get Slammed
Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for THE CITY’s daily morning newsletter. Workers at an East Harlem funeral home used a U-Haul and other rental trucks to transport bodies in recent weeks — with some employees at times not wearing masks and gloves even as coronavirus raged. Video obtained by […]