Sarah Kerr
Food pantry guests outside of Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Church in University Heights.
A system of pantries and soup kitchens sustains thousands of people, many of them working, in the borough. Lines stretch down blocks. People queue up three hours early.
‘What’s at stake is the future of our children,’ Michelle Ortiz said. ‘We got young girls growing up, we don’t want to set ourselves back to the 1930s.’
Ballot scanners were reportedly not working at a number of voting locations in the Bronx on Tuesday morning, including polling stations in Co-op City, Claremont, Kingsbridge and Belmont.
A team of reporters spent a day on the buses of the Bronx to see to see an underappreciated part of the city’s strained transit system in action.
Two Bushwick artists—one native, one new—had a tense confrontation over the role of artists in gentrification. Then they engineered a collaboration of sorts.
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