If the administration is truly open to community input on how to improve the Jerome Avenue corridor, the report released by the Bronx Coalition for a Community Vision gives planners much to chew on. Watch a video report.
Community organizations in the Bronx say residential and commercial tenants in areas around the Kinsgbridge Armory and the proposed Jerome Avenue rezoning are seeing higher rents and more harassment.
A series of recent incidents has people asking “Why?” A National Institutes of Health report tried to find answers.
Last year’s interns explored the ease of getting unhealthy food and difficulty in accessing exercise. What news will this year’s interns uncover?
The comptroller says housing is getting increasingly crowded, with immigrants and Bronxites feeling the tightest squeeze.
For any school strategy to work, kids have to show up. And one in three children in the South Bronx misses a month of school every year.
Ten years ago the controversial Venezuelan leader promised petroleum revenue to help the South Bronx. While Chavez’s legacy is complicated, a youth worker argues that an upcoming concert is proof his vision had merit.
Play and prayer. Tension and friendship. Celebration and complaint. All were on display when we dispatched a team of reporters to take the city’s temperature on a particular day in several Bronx parks.
Few voters and little competition characterize the process for electing chief law enforcement officers in the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island.
Even as defense lawyers and other advocates say that efforts to reduce the rate of pre-trial imprisonment are long overdue, they’re also expressing reservations about the de Blasio administration plan to offer non-bail supervised release.
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