Melrose event promotes post-Covid healing
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…
Stage Garden Rumba returns
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…
Group will offer financial services to offset lack of local banks
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…
Vacant Melrose lot poses health risk, raises unanswered questions
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…
Mobile banking comes to the South Bronx
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…
Group calls for community land ownership in new report
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…
Community groups seek answers, as public funding shrinks
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.…
New Melrose park dedicated to relentless community activist
A new park in Melrose will go by the name of a legendary community fighter. Yolanda García Park at the corner of Melrose Avenue and E 159th St. will pay…