The South Bronx was ravaged in the 1970s and 80s by a city policy that looked to transform the area into an "Enterprise Zone" with new factories, which in turn led to the destruction of several ...

Ralph Houk was sick of losing. When the New York Yankees broke camp and headed north in the spring of 1970, no one figured they’d even be competitive, never mind contenders in the tough AL East ...

Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on Ottoman Turkish music, Yiddish dance and klezmer music. An accomplished musician and a respected academic who has taught at elite univer ...

Netflix's The Get Down premieres on Friday and will take viewers on a journey back in time to 1970s New York City, specifically The Bronx. I grew up in NYC while Rudy Giuliani was mayor and the ...

Throughout the 1970s, hundreds of buildings went up in flames in New York City’s poorest neighborhoods. But nowhere were the fires more prevalent than The Bronx, where on a single night in July ...

New Trailer Shows More Of Baz Luhrmann's Bronx In The 1970s. By . Jen Carlson. Published Jul 25, 2016. Modified Jul 25, 2016. ... Gothamist is a website about New York City news, arts, events and ...

And "Torched" explores true stories of those who lived through the Bronx fires in the 1970s 24/7 Live New York City New Jersey Long Island Northern Suburbs Connecticut Welcome, Mickey ...