Beating the heat, and the pollution, in New York rivers
The long-polluted New York rivers are getting cleaner, but can still be dangerous to swim in. There are efforts underway to clean up the Bronx River, but that will take years, if not decades. Until...
View Article80 Blocks from Tiffany's: they were criminals, but they were also charming
80 Blocks from Tiffany'swas what The Warriors, the cultish and campy Hollywood street gang movie involving roller skates and a race to Coney Island, could never be. It was real. Shot over the course of...
View ArticleBananas like to ripen at the very very tropical Bronx refrigeration plant
Spaces of banana control. A visit to one of the four major artificial banana ripening facilities in New York City, for a research seminar on the "Artificial Cryosphere." The article is jam-packed with...
View ArticleTechnically, the home was simply for "aged and indigent gentlefolk...of...
Freedman Home For The Elderly in the Bronx had an unusual purpose at its outset in the 1920s: to house retirees who used to be wealthy but had lost their money. Now it is mostly empty. ScoutingNY.com...
View ArticleNYC High Schoolers Release 10-Point Educational Policy Plan
A group of high school students from The Bronx calling themselves The Resistance have released a 10-point plan to reform NYC public schooling. (via Colorlines) Their platform is: We demand free...
View ArticleI don't know what direction America is headed in, but whichever way it is, I...
The Audacity Of Louis Ortiz is a kickstarterfunded documentary that chronicles the life and times an unemployed Puerto Rican man from the Bronx, whose life completely changedwhen he was told that he...
View ArticleWild Things
The Bronx Zoo is managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society, which boasts of running more than 500 projects in sixty-five countries through global field offices whose employees work to advance...
View Article"Magna est veritas et praevalet"
Last June, the New York Times published an exposé of New York's exclusive Horace Mann School, detailing decades of sexual abuse of students by their teachers. The revelations prompted additional...
View ArticleNYPD rat, NYPD hero
Officer Serrano's Hidden Camera"Once he joined the 4-0, nothing seemed clear-cut. 'Every now and then, we would have to be put in a van and hunt, basically...'"
View ArticleIt Is Suggested That Fans Clip The Series For Future Reference
1946-'47 Sporting News - Sketches of Major League Parks by Gene Mack Clipped for future reference: Comiskey ParkCleveland StadiumBriggs StadiumSportsman's ParkShibe ParkFenway ParkBraves' FieldEbbets...
View ArticleThe New York Filming Locations of The Godfather, Then and Now
Because the film is a period piece, The Godfather actually presents a fascinating record of what 1940s-era New York City locations still existed in the early-1970s. Sadly, many of them are now gone....
View ArticleBoy About Town
What 11-Year-Old Kareem Granton Saw During 5 Days Roaming New York City(Warning: Slideshow format, but with original artwork.)When Kareem Granton ran away from his East New York home recently, he spent...
View ArticleSpending eternity with Miles Davis
Fans book burial plots to be near jazz greats."Nearly all the 70 burial plots which were advertised for sale earlier this year in 'Jazz Corner'– right behind the shiny, granite gravestone of Miles...
View ArticleBefore The Law
In Before The Law, Jennifer Gonnerman, writing for The New Yorker, tells the story of Kalief Browder, who was unjustly accused of taking a backpack. He spent the next three years on Rikers Island...
View Article"Is There Anybody In The World Who Is On My Side?"
"After surviving one of the most high-profile and long-running school sex abuse scandals in history, a group of 32 men and women banded together to seek solace and justice —only to find that public...
View ArticleHow The Bronx Came Back (But Didn't Bring Everyone Along)
The New York borough that once symbolized urban decline is safer and more stable—but most Bronxites' lives are still precarious.
View ArticleGhetto Swirl
How street kids in the Bronx taught me it's OK to be biracial and gay - As a "nerdy, Mexican, gay, Mormon child of the '80s and '90s," cartoonist Terry Blas had trouble figuring out his identity......
View ArticleNine Months in the Bronx
In this six part video series, the BBC follows "22 year old Felicia during her pregnancy as she navigates a welfare system which critics claim puts unfair demands on poor and minority women."
View ArticleI got a pocket full of dreams
The New York Public Library is creating a "digital time-travel service for New York City with historical maps, collections rich in geospatial data, and the public's help." Meet the NYC Space/Time...
View ArticleWhy the Bronx Burned in the 1970s
It was game two of the 1977 World Series, a chilly, blustery October night in the South Bronx. The Yanks were already down 2-0 in the bottom of the first inning when ABC's aerial camera panned a few...
View ArticleThrown Away
"Every night in New York, an army of private garbage trucks from more than 250 sanitation companies sets out across the five boroughs picking up the trash from all manner of businesses. Racing to...
View ArticleBack Row America
Takeesha was standing alone by a trickling fire hydrant, washing her face. She was working, wearing thigh-high faux-leather red boots and leopard-print tights, waving at every car or truck that passed...
View Article"It's not good enough just to clap for them"
Workers at Hunts Point Market, a Bronx-based food hub that supplies 60% of the produce in New York City, are on day five of their first strike in 35 years. The produce workers, members of Teamsters...
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