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View ArticleAfternoon Bulletin: Stores Will Stop Selling Illegal Toy Guns, Alligator on...
Following the sale of more than 6,400 illegal toy guns in New York by retailers like Walmart and Amazon, a settlement was made with the New York attorney general’s office.
View ArticleBronx Legionnaires’ Outbreak Is ‘Largest’ in New York City’s History
Health officials said today that the ongoing outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease in the South Bronx is unprecedented for New York City—but repeatedly downplayed the risk to most healthy adults.
View ArticleDiaz Rips de Blasio Administration for Not Bringing Feds in to Fight...
Ruben Diaz Jr. said Mary Bassett and Bill de Blasio should have asked the CDC to combat Legionnaire's disease in the Bronx.
View ArticleQuestions About Legionnaires’‘Hot Spot’ Hotel Anger Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio chastised reporters for asking questions he did not like.
View ArticleLegionnaires’ Outbreak Contained in the South Bronx, de Blasio Says
City officials believe they have contained the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that killed 12 and sickened 122 people in the South Bronx, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett...
View ArticleCouncil Passes Bill to Regulate Cooling Towers After Deadly Legionnaires’...
The City Council hopes this bill will prevent future deadly outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease.
View ArticleCuomo Announces Statewide Legionnaires’ Disease Regulations
The state has adopted the same regulations to combat legionella in cooling towers the City Council passed last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
View ArticleStrange Bronx Bedfellows: Artist Lucien Smith and a Real Estate Scheme
Lucien Smith mounts a controversial show in the Bronx
View ArticleBronx Councilwoman Abruptly Announces Plans to Step Down
Maria Carmen del Arroyo announced she would resign effective December 31, 2015.
View ArticleAfternoon Bulletin: Sanders Heads to the Bronx, Gay Talese Decries Normcore...
Bernie Sanders’ campaign for New York’s April 19th Democratic primary got underway in the South Bronx Thursday.
View ArticleMet’s Going Broke Despite Record Attendance, South Bronx Gets an Art Fair…And...
Art world news for August 5.
View ArticleNo Justice, No Jobs, No Boobs—Double Standard Endangers South Bronx Strip Club
NYPD spends 17 months undercover watching topless dancers.
View ArticlePhoto Essay: The Secret Lives of South Bronx Teenagers
Photographer Sarah Blesener documents life in the South Bronx
View ArticleThe (South) Bronx Is Turning, But Not Everyone Is Thrilled About It
The waterfront locale and the subway access ‘make this a breeding ground for what made Williamsburg and Dumbo. The South Bronx just makes so much sense.’—Justin Fitzsimmons, analyst with GFI Realty
View ArticleAt Frieze New York, John Ahearn Will Stage ‘South Bronx Hall of Fame,’ New...
This week is all about the Armory Show, but details are starting to emerge about rival Frieze New York, which sets down on Randall’s Island in just two months. Artnet has the scoop that, as part of...
View ArticleCan Genius-Grant Winner Majora Carter Bring the Tech Boom to the South Bronx?
Silicon Hunts Point may sound like a far-fetched idea . . . to people who haven’t seen Majora Carter’s compelling TED talk about how neighborhoods like the South Bronx, where she grew up, suffered from...
View ArticleMoney and Manipulation: Documentary Takes On the Super-rich Residents of 740...
The opening shots of Park Avenue: Money, Power and The American Dream show the famed avenue in all its moneyed glory: idling Mercedes, impeccably coiffed society women and stern limestone facades with...
View ArticleFathers at the Heart of Astorino Anti-Poverty Plan
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino pitched a paternity-based anti-poverty plan outside Lincoln Hospital in a destitute section of the Bronx today. Flanked by local Hispanic pastors and...
View ArticleRuben Diaz Sr. Wants Ted Cruz to Visit the South Bronx
Forget New Hampshire, or Iowa, or Lynchburg, Virgina, where Republican Senator Ted Cruz kicked off his presidential campaign. State Senator Ruben Diaz wants Mr. Cruz to come stump in the South Bronx....
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