In the mid-1970s, fire marshal Mike DiMarco was staking out David Berkowitz’s Bronx home after his yellow ... those lower response times are only true on paper, not in reality.

That it came to represent urban chaos in Naples, a city renowned for the same, speaks volumes about the Bronx’s stubborn reputation, cast in the 1970s and fixed in pop-cultural memory for ...

A program in the Bronx aimed at preventing youth gun violence ... Thousands of South Asian-Cambodian people immigrated here in the 1970s, following the war in Vietnam and specifically the ...

On Monday, Nov. 4, PBS Independent Lens will premiere “Decade of Fire,” a look at why the Bronx burned in the 1970s, and how some community members chose to stay and rebuild their neighborhoods.

In the 1970s, fires ravaged much of the Bronx: seven census tracts lost 97 percent of their buildings and 44 tracts lost more than 50 percent. Many people still believe that those fires were the ...

By Ben Kenigsberg “Decade of Fire” positions itself as a corrective to the notion that Bronx residents were responsible for the wave of arson that laid siege to the borough in the 1970s.

But the original gangsters who used to run the Bronx back in the day would gladly give her an honorary membership for all she has done to keep their legacy alive. Massey is the bridge between the ...