Decade of FireLa difunta Hetty Fox, trabajando en el Bronx. Traducido para Daniel Parra. Read the English version here. El viejo refrán, a menudo desfigurado, nos recuerda que “aquellos que no pueden recordar el pasado están condenados a repetirlo”. ¿Pero qué pasa con aquellos que sí recuerdan?
Originally dubbed the African Diaspora Youth Sports Club, that team is now called the United Africa Football Club—a multilingual group that has won seven annual soccer tournaments.
A new short film extracts lessons from the experiences of community advocates in the Bronx, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles to inform neighborhood efforts at survival.
Brokers predicted that the kind of investments the tax incentive could attract would create an entirely new borough. But a year later, the fervor around opportunity zones in the Bronx has shrunk from a clap to a whisper.
Bronx Senator Luis Sepulveda has made headlines for big campaign loan he received from a dentist friend. Turns out he wrote dental legislation soon thereafter.
‘As Mayor de Blasio once said, we can no longer tell the tale of two cities. Rezonings such as the one proposed for Southern Boulevard will ensure that tale lives on. ‘
Some say the plan fails to provide meaningful service improvements that would draw riders back to the bus.
The city’s decision to forego (for now) changes to rules on Special Natural Area Districts reflects the complex politics around density, nature and local control.
Long-time tenant champion and 40-year Bronx resident Carmen Vega-Rivera, whose career in housing advocacy began with a fight against her own landlord over a decade ago, died Sunday at the age of 65.
The area around Southern Boulevard has already secured a lot of the kinds of infrastructure investments that usually come with a rezoning.