Black leaders envision a cooperative future
The Mi Oh My farm is different from most urban farms. For one thing, it’s indoors: the entire farm is located in a one-bedroom apartment, using hydroponic mats and grow…
Gender-based violence highest in Bronx
Only two days after an international campaign against domestic violence ended, Saniyah Lawrence, 16, was stabbed in the neck and killed on Dec. 12. Her 18-year-old boyfriend was charged with…
South Bronx students find their voice through journalism
In the South Bronx, some student journalists are reporting on everything from school sports to video games to the real meaning of Thanksgiving, and they’re learning how to shoot and…
New rooftop greenhouse set to enhance nutrition for Bronxites
Public housing residents may have a new neighbor next year: an urban farm in the air. On the roof of Arbor House, an affordable housing structure next door to the…
Bronx Music Heritage Center celebrates eighth Melrose Parranda
A gradually expanding crowd of Bronx residents danced and sang throughout the streets of Melrose Wednesday evening to celebrate Christmas, Puerto Rican style. The sounds of saxophones, trumpets, maracas, tambourines,…
South Bronx residents sound the alarm over rising crime
Residents of Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris are being hit with double-digit increases in robbery, burglary, carjacking and other crimes. Although shooting incidents and murders are down for the…
Rikers women prisoners lack hygiene necessities
Remember the toilet paper panic at the start of the pandemic – the fear of going weeks without T. P.? Think about life without sanitary napkins, soap or even basic…
At a model dispensary, the first glimmer of a green gold rush
Bronx residents can get their first look at a legal cannabis store this weekend. Set up in the historic Bronx Post Office on the Grand Concourse, the model dispensary has…