Posted on 10 October 2018.
The public meeting on whether or not New York should legalize marijuana hadn’t even started yet, and things were already getting heated. “Who here loves pot?” a large, bearded man shouted as he walked into the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Queens, the site of a Sept. 24 listening session. It was the latest on […]
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Posted in Health, Politics
Posted on 09 October 2018.
Morrisania in the South Bronx has long been known as a “food desert” for its lack of fresh produce — the local Youthmarket is trying to improve the situation.
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Posted in Community Resources, Featured, Food, Health, Morrisania, The Bronx Beat
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 28 September 2018.
Patricia Lewis, who was forced to flee Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, is teaching a workshop on the impacts of climate change at a Mott Haven highschool. She’ll be helping the students paint a mural depicting their reactions to what they learned.
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Posted in Education, Featured, Southern Bronx
Posted on 23 September 2018.
A Mott Haven pet store joins the crop of new small businesses popping up along Mott Haven’s southern waterfront.
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Community Resources, Featured, Housing, Southern Bronx
Posted on 20 September 2018.
Residents are adjusting to the new ferry in South Bronx, but some fear it may soon become overcrowded.
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Community Resources, Southern Bronx, Transportation
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