Tag: Cross Bronx Expressway

A plan to expand the Cross-Bronx Expressway through a mile-long ‘connector’ road has incensed South Bronx activists, many of whom have long been involved in projects to reduce the  environmental…

Noise, air pollution and lack of access to parks topped the list of complaints from several dozen Bronxites in a Parkchester school on Tuesday, to discuss ways to make the…

In 1981, a New York Times article brought Jill Jonnes, a Columbia Journalism student, to the Bronx. Decades later, she’s one of the borough’s most credible historians– and she’s still…

The long sought-after goal to “cap” the Cross Bronx Expressway by building parks over it has found new life, with Sen. Chuck Schumer and other New York politicians throwing their…

Since the death of his wife three months ago, Joe Sherman said he has found comfort in being around other people. On Dec. 1, Sherman was shoveling dirt and planting…

By the time Justin Sanchez was seven years old, he learned how to administer albuterol to his three-year-old sister to treat her asthma. This wasn’t something out of the ordinary…