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 ...

Refugees share their experience of moving to the Bronx following the war in Vietnam and, more specifically, fleeing the Khmer ...

A People Ignited on December 2-19, 2021. TORCHED! speaks to the now legendary era of the Bronx Fires of the 1970s, lifting stories of survival to lay bare the infamies of the arson-for-profit ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, the South Bronx was slowly brought to ruin by industrialization, trash dumping and arson. But photographer Mel Rosenthal wanted to show another side of the notorious borough.

“The Bronx is burning.” The scene quickly became a defining image of New York in the 1970s, a fitting summation of the decade perfect in every way but one: It never happened. Cosell, tapes of ...

Author Mark Goldsmith joins MetroFocus to discuss his new book “From Madison Avenue to Rikers Island: The Making of a Social Entrepreneur." ...

Baz Lurhmann’s technicolor retelling of the birth of hip hop is set in the South Bronx in 1977, as disco reigned and the last vestiges of early ’70s gang life gave way to the emerging culture ...

Thurman Munson was rookie of the year in 1970. It was typical pre-season puffery ... a Yankees icon and as captain led the infamous “Bronx Zoo” championship teams of the late ’70s, hit ...

The Get Down drew excitement off G.P. considering it follows a group of teens in The Bronx in the 1970s and its touting as a “Hip-Hop drama.” Netflix just dropped a trailer that reveals this ...

1 It was the nation’s glimpse into a time when the Bronx — and many other parts of New York City — were decimated by fire. Between 1970 and 1980, seven census tracts in the Bronx lost more ...