Bronx
City Delays Next Step in Jerome Avenue Rezoning
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
A release of the draft scope for the latest area targeted by the de Blasio housing plan will be pushed from May to September to allow more community engagement.
Bronx
Photo Essay: On the Bronx River
Jarrett Murphy |
The annual flotilla navigated the quiet beauty of a reclaimed urban waterway.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: The Bronx Reclaims its River and Now a Forest, Too
Nicole Brownstein |
A healthy river and forest are necessary to bring back wildlife and the community. Now there’s a way you can help support both.
Art at the Limits
Help Us Map NYC’s Outer-Borough Art Scene
Jarrett Murphy and Lelosa Imasuen |
We know this map is barely a start. If you know of a gallery, artists’ collective, performance group, music venue, theater, museum or dance space that we don’t, tell us all about it.
Bronx
Video: Make a Park Bench Your Gym This Spring
Jarrett Murphy and Lizzie Ford-Madrid |
Two of the young athlete-advocates from the Bronx’s Mary Mitchell Center demonstrate how a simple park bench can be the key to your plan to get in shape—and talk about their broader work to make the Bronx a healthier place.
Bronx
Bronx Groups Push City for Detailed Study of Rezoning’s Impact
Jarrett Murphy |
New York City’s discussion of zoning, housing and displacement tends to occur in broad strokes. A coalition of Bronx groups wants to dial into the details in an unprecedented way.
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History of Official Neglect Feeds Bronx Interest in Bernie
Roberta Nin Feliz |
A raucous rally in a South Bronx park was, said many in the crowd, the first time in a long time that the city’s poorest borough has felt its political voice mattered in a presidential race.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews:
Four Wrong Ideas Driving de Blasio’s Housing Plan
Susanna Blankley |
“The battle for a more just and equitable society isn’t just a battle about land and resources. It is also a battle of ideas.”
Bronx
Can the Bronx Develop Without Displacement?
Jarrett Murphy |
This weekend, City Limits will moderate a panel discussion featuring a tenant leader, artists and the commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to try to answer that question.
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Bronx Group’s New Path: Not Fighting Power, Taking It
Jarrett Murphy |
The fight over the Kingsbridge Armory, above, ended in a great victory for the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. But it also forced a rethink over strategy, and a move toward controlling economic development rather than reacting to it.
