Mounting challenges don’t stop local churches
As the Coronavirus continues its spread, Churches in the South Bronx are adjusting to the challenges of providing food and prayer services to their congregations, even as their own finances…
How churches are staying connected to their flocks during Covid-19
While Covid-19 has suspended all in-person group services in the South Bronx, many churches are employing the latest digital technologies to boost morale and ensure the parishioners can remain connected…
Rapper Fred the Godson sick with the coronavirus
Rapper Frederick Thomas, better known as Fred the Godson, has the coronavirus. The 35-year-old Highbridge native tweeted a picture of himself wearing an oxygen mask in what appears to be…
No masks for NYCHA staffers working in tenant apartments
Outside the Tompkins Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY An combustible mix of workers without masks entering apartments to make repairs, an aging tenant population and a lack of…
Councilman’s father dead from the coronavirus
Rafael Salamanca Sr., the father of City Council Member Rafael Salamanca Jr. of the 17th district, has died from the coronavirus. Salamanca Jr., whose district covers a large swath of…
Amid outbreak, tenants protest to demand rent cancelations
Standing at the corner of 139th St. and Willis Avenue, a handful of residents in a Mott Haven apartment building did what few New Yorkers are willing to do these…
NYC provides free meals for all New Yorkers
New York City will now make free meals available for all New Yorkers, not just schoolchildren, and 109 of the distribution locations are in the Bronx. In response to the…
As virus spreads, Mott Haven residents worry about people with asthma
Local advocates sound the alarm over the area’s trucking fleets as the need for food delivery services spikes citywide As the novel Coronavirus continues to grip New York City, concern…