Posted on 18 October 2018. Tags: aot, bronx psychiatric center, civil rights, kendraslaw, mental health
Every Wednesday a judge comes to Bronx Psychiatric Center and oversees hearings in which the hospital wants to force a patient to stay hospitalized or take treatment. How do these small makeshift courtrooms straddle the balance between respecting civil rights and ensure that patients get the treatment they need even if they don’t want it?
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Life, Culture, Featured, Health
Posted on 17 October 2018.
Dennis Pentier, a 48 year-old Jamaican immigrant, has been homeless here in New York City for the past eight years. Ejected from a city shelter, he survives day to day from his makeshift outdoor shop on a block in the Tremont neighborhood that he currently calls home.
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Blog, Bronx Neighborhoods, Bronx Tales, Community Resources, Culture, Featured, Housing, Morrisania, Morrisania, North Central Bronx, Politics, The Bronx Beat, Unemployment by the numbers
Posted on 15 October 2018.
When Barnes and Noble closed in December 2016, leaving the Bronx without a single general-interest bookstore, it promised to return within 24-36 months. 22 months later, the retailer shows no signs of progress toward this benchmark.
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Blog, Bronx Life, Culture, Featured
Posted on 02 October 2018. Tags: Chuck D, collection, highbridge, hip-hop, museum, paradise the architect, universal hip hop museum
The Bronx’s soon-to-come Universal Hip-Hop Museum is set to open in 2022, but the effort to curate the world’s largest collection of hip-hop memorabilia is well underway.
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Posted in Arts, Culture, Featured, Southern Bronx
Posted on 20 September 2018.
Moe Stein calls his store a “Local Landmark”, and after 96 years, “Frank’s” has outlasted the tough retail business on East Tremont in the Bronx. Recently, the store has begun facing a new obstacle; its own retailers.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Bronx Tales, Culture, East Bronx, Sports, The Bronx Beat
Posted on 20 September 2018.
Bronx-born photojournalist Randy Goodman brings her photos of Iranian women taken over a three-decade span to Bronx Museum of Arts, challenging perceptions of Muslim women at home and abroad.
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Posted in Arts, Culture, Immigration, Photography, Politics
Posted on 24 October 2016.
British artist Nick Walker of “gentleman vandal” fame displaying his stencil graffiti works in the Bronx and of the Bronx at Wallworks Art Gallery in Port Morris. The exhibit, “The Last Ride,” opened Sept. 17.
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, Front Page, Politics, Southern Bronx
Posted on 24 September 2016.
Around 1,500 middle school children receive books and a boost from the chancellor and City Councilmember Andrew King
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Life, Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Culture, Education