Serving Mott Haven, Melrose & Port Morris
Dozens of people braved rain and hot weather to attend the annual “We Are Melrose” festival in Saturday. After the performances by poets, musicians, and dancers, the community organization gave…
The first Spring Equinox celebration was held at Yolanda Garcia Park in Melrose on Saturday, hosted by Nos Quedamos (We Stay), with the aim of drawing the community together to…
Sweetness was on tap in Melrose for an eagerly anticipated, in-person opening with a them of “Bronx Bees and Honey” theme. Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater and Nos Quedamos are collaborating…
South Bronx residents have long put up with limited access to financial services in their own neighborhoods. The closing of local bank branches in recent years has made the problem…
A Melrose dry cleaner that closed in 1968 is now the site of a toxic underground mess that is rattling nerves in 2022. The fenced-in, grass-covered lot at 753 Melrose…
Bronxites can now bank without setting foot in a brick-and-mortar branch. Following a national trend of bank closures that heightened during the pandemic, the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit…
A new blueprint for community development in the South Bronx posits that local residents are best equipped to mastermind the kind of changes their neighborhoods need to prosper. Melrose-based Nos…
As the impact from the pandemic’s first punch gradually diminishes and New York City wrestles with reopening, South Bronx cultural organizations see an uncertain future in the communities they serve.…