How a powerfully-backed festival crumbled
In the doomed festival’s wake rose an explosive community dialogue about gentrification, a discussion in which its founder feels wrongfully targeted, but one in which many community organizers say they…
Musicians react to a lost opportunity
Just days before what organizers had hoped would be the “biggest celebration of hustle the Bronx has ever seen”, the host venue issued a statement announcing that they were pulling…
City Council calls for health department to step up diabetes control
A bill in the City Council would require the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to produce a semi-annual report on the occurrence of diabetes in the city.
Promised elevator repairs at 149 Street-Grand Concourse station delayed to next year
Almost four years have passed since the MTA announced it was allocating $45 million for elevators at the station but it remains without functioning elevators, leaving community members asking, what…
Uprooting a dangerous industry: Garbage reform explained
Private carters, seeking to serve as many customers as possible, run routes that zig zag across the city, forcing drivers to work long hours and to ignore stop signs and…
Planning Commission votes to certify jail plan, sending it to community boards
Despite the protest, the City Planning Commission voted to certify the mayor's plan the following day, sending it to the first stage of the ULURP process. Bronx Community Board 1…
Protesters descend on City Hall to denounce jail plans
On March 24, tenants of the Diego Beekman Houses joined Diaz on the steps of City Hall to protest the mayor's plan to build a 26-story jail in Mott Haven.
Forum for tenants draws few
A resource fair for tenants at St. Luke’s Church on 139th Street, failed to cause the kind of buzz public officials had hoped it would. Only about a dozen tenants…