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Current Borough President Vanessa Gibson, right. Her challenger, City Councilmember Rafael Salamanca, right. (Flickr/Office of the Bronx Borough President, William Alatriste/NYC Council Media Unit) ...
Installation view of Zainab Aliyu, American Artist, and The School for Poetic Computation’s “The Bronx Dictionary of Dark Matters” (2020– ongoing) in Working Knowledge: Shared Imaginings ...
Wedged between an elementary school and a big box shopping center in the Northeast Bronx, NineDot Energy is operating a battery farm that the city’s utility company, Con Ed, can call on to help ...
A new book charts the rise and fall of a short-lived haven for working-class immigrants and their soon-to-be upwardly mobile children. In 1930, the Bronx was 50% Jewish. It’s a statistic that ...
NEW YORK -- A five-alarm fire broke out early Friday morning in the Bronx, leaving seven people hurt and more than 250 needing shelter and emergency assistance. Firefighters responded around 1:45 ...
Some in the Castle Hill neighborhood of the Bronx said Wednesday that his visit to a local barbershop weeks before Election Day had an impact on voters, especially Latino men. Barbers and ...
Writer Ian Frazier has spent the last 15 years walking the Bronx, mastering its geography, researching its history and getting to know its culture and people. The result of his walks is a new book ...
The Bronx, New York’s only borough attached to the American mainland, now crams a population of nearly 1.5 million into 42 hilly square miles. It boasts the vertiginous Van Cortlandt Park ...
The Bronx? You gotta be kidding me. That’s how I imagine a lot of people might react to the thought of reading a 500-plus-page history of the Bronx, the only borough of New York City attached to ...
The Bronx is a hand reaching down to pull the other boroughs of New York City out of the harbor and the sea. Its fellow-boroughs are islands or parts of islands; the Bronx hangs on to Manhattan ...