Careless picnickers cooking out, trashing Mosholu Parkway and Pelham Parkway...
Residents say the cookouts pose hazard to traffic and trees, and insist the city is ignoring their complaints By Jennifer H. Cunningham / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS It was another messy Monday along Mosholu...
View ArticleMy Bronx Impressions: From an Upstate New Yorker
by Michael Muller/Editted by Shannon Lee Gilstad Growing up in the 1970s in an Irish/German, single parent household in Batavia, New York, a small city in Upstate New York, there was not much local...
View ArticleNepotism Alive & Well In The Bronx As Ruben Diaz, Jr Appoints Daughter of...
by Ed García Conde for Welcome2TheBronx Marlene Cintron, Executive Director of Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, congratulates her daughter on being appointed to Community Board 4 Bronx...
View ArticleFreshDirect foe Mychal Johnson says opposition led to his dismissal from Bx....
South Bronx United co-founder charges that Borough President Reuben Diaz Jr. denied his reappointment out of retaliation By Denis Slattery / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ROBERTS, FRANCES/FREELANCE NYDN Fresh...
View ArticleHomeless-housing business booming
By DAVID SEIFMAN/New York Post Homeless services might just be the best business in town these days. A nonprofit agency that operates 23 homeless facilities under city contracts has doubled its...
View ArticleFacebook-new tool for Bx. communities
By Kirsten Sanchez for Bronx Times Bronx community boards have entered the 21st century, with Board 11 at the head of the pack. Facebook, which started out as a social networking website for college...
View Article$2000 “affordable” apartments on Orloff Avenue?
by Kristin for Fort Independence Park Neighborhood Association Check out this ad from a recent edition of the NY Daily News. The managers of the HDC-subsidized building at 3880 Orloff are now trying...
View ArticleShovels finally hit ground on Broadway Plaza
By Adam Wisnieski/Riverdale Press Miyan Levenson/The Riverdalepress Councilman Oliver Koppell, Rep. Eliot Engel, Equity One CEO Jeffrey Olson and Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. at the...
View ArticleBronx BP Tries to Kick Queens Out of Play in Attempt to Lure Soccer Team
By Patrick Wall for DNAinfo.com THE BRONX — If Major League Soccer‘s shot at a stadium in Queens gets deflected, The Bronx is ready to sweep in and score. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. sent a...
View ArticleOpenly Gay Candidates Face Off in Historic Bronx City Council Race
By Patrick Wall for DNAinfo.com Slideshow Bronx 15th District City Council Candidates CENTRAL BRONX — Many gays and lesbians live happily in The Bronx, but not always easily. Their only community...
View ArticleDon’t Miss The Great Bronx Bar Tour This Saturday!
by Ed García Conde for Welcome2TheBronx $30 bucks in advance or $40 on Saturday will give you access to amazing deals at 20 participating Bronx watering holes as well as unlimited transportation...
View ArticleThe Great Bronx Bar Tour Promises a 20-Bar Voyage Through the Borough
By Patrick Wall for DNAinfo.com The Bronx Beer Hall owners Paul Ramirez, Anthony Ramirez II and David Greco. The Beer Hall is co-organizing, with the Jo… View Full Caption THE BRONX — What’s better on...
View ArticleIs J.Lo, AKA Jennifer Lopez, Still ‘Jenny From The Block’?
by Ed García Conde for Welcome2TheBronx As a contemporary fellow Bronxite of Jennifer Lopez, I grew up looking at her and admiring her many accomplishments. She made it out of the Bronx. But was her...
View ArticleRules & Ethics Thrown Out Window By District Manager, Board Chair At CB1′s...
by Ed García Conde for Welcome2TheBronx Gregory Tsougranis, bottom left, appears to get cozy with Desiree Joy Frias, who he transferred ownership of the BoogieDowner to, as she sits next to her mother,...
View ArticleNYC’s Best Pizza Is In The Bronx, Says BP Diaz, And Here’s Where To Find It
By Rebecca Fishbein/Gothamist fullscreen The Dean Martin at Coals (Navid Baraty/Gothamist) Brooklyn might boast Totonno’s, Di Fara and L&B Spumoni Gardens, Staten Island’s got Denino’s and Joe...
View ArticleAsk a Native New Yorker: Will the South Bronx Ever Gentrify?
via Gothamist (A Banksy mural in the South Bronx last month.) Are you relatively new to this fine metropolis? Don’t be shy about it, everyone was new to New York at one time… except, of course, those...
View ArticleWin a Family Pack of 4 Tickets to the New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train...
Photos courtesy of New York Botanical Garden I am really excited to announce BronxCentric!’s first giveaway! Win a Family Pack of 4 Tickets to the New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show! Rules:...
View ArticleFrench Political Candidate Claims Crime-Ridden Paris ‘Resembles The Bronx’
Jake Dobkin’s photograph of a REVS/COST mural is at the McDonald’s at the Louvre (Josh Reznick) A French candidate for mayor of Paris’s 17th arrondissement made a bold, scare-mongering play for voters...
View ArticleA Melrose By Any Other Name
In Ed García Conde’s article, Identity Crisis: Do You Live In Bronxdale, Laconia, Or Is It Allerton?, we learned about Community Board 11‘s push to rename an area north of Pelham Parkway “Allerton,”...
View ArticleTax Prep Doesn’t Have to Be Taxing: What You Need to Know
It’s that time of year again. Dollar-shaped postcards stuck in your door promise a $50 bonus if you do your taxes with ABC Company. Flyers on telephone poles boast the highest returns in town. Men and...
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