White Plains Road Spotlight: The North Bronx Has the City’s Attention
The Mamdani administration launched the White Plains Road Neighborhood Plan in May 2026, kicking off a community-driven rezoning process for the Northeast Bronx — with the first walkshop in June.
Bronx White Plains Road Rezoning: What the New Neighborhood Plan Means
Mayor Mamdani’s White Plains Road Neighborhood Plan is the first major rezoning initiative in the Bronx under the new administration. Here’s what North Bronx residents need to know.
Nourish in Mott Haven: The Nonprofit Restaurant Worth Knowing
At 141 Alexander Avenue in Mott Haven, there’s a restaurant doing something genuinely unusual: it’s owned by a nonprofit, every dollar of profit goes directly back into the South Bronx community, and the food is actually good. Nourish opened in August 2025 in the former Chocobar Cortes space — and now that it’s past its […]
Bronx Community Events June 2026: Tree Planting, History Walks & More
The Bronx has a full calendar of community-driven events this June — from an evening tree-planting action in Mott Haven to a historic walking tour through Longwood and a free community art gathering in Norwood. Whether you live in the South Bronx, the Grand Concourse corridor, or the northeast neighborhoods near Pelham Bay, there are […]
South Bronx Unite’s HEArts Center: A Community Builds Its Own
For more than a decade, the building at 349 East 140th Street in Mott Haven sat empty. It had been the Lincoln Recovery Center — a clinic with a remarkable history, first as a neighborhood health facility, then as the site of a community-driven drug rehabilitation program pioneered by the Young Lords and Black Panthers […]
Woodlawn Cemetery to Pelham Bay: The Bronx Walk Nobody Takes
The Bronx has two of the most remarkable outdoor destinations in New York City — one the world’s largest urban cemetery and functioning arboretum, the other the city’s largest park at nearly 2,800 acres. Most New Yorkers have been to neither. That’s either a missed opportunity or an open invitation, depending on how you look […]
Bronx Weekend Preview: Wave Hill Family Events, NYBG Flower Power, May 30-31
The Bronx is one of the most underrated weekend destinations in New York City, and this weekend is a good reminder of that. Wave Hill has a full two-day program of family workshops and Sunday wellness programming, the New York Botanical Garden’s major summer exhibition is deep into its run, and community volunteers are gathering […]
Fordham, Bronx in 2026: A Green Jobs Hub Opens This Fall
Fordham is the Bronx neighborhood that most New Yorkers pass through without stopping: the elevated 4 and D trains rattle past on Jerome and Grand Concourse, Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus sits behind its stone wall, and Fordham Road — the commercial spine running east-west — is one of the busiest retail corridors in the […]
Bronx’s 161st Street Is Getting a Bus-Only Corridor: What to Know
A major DOT project is transforming East 161st Street in the South Bronx into a protected bus corridor for 25,000 daily Bx6 riders. Construction runs through 2028 — here’s what’s changing.
Mott Haven Is Opening Up: New Bank, Market & What’s Coming
If you haven’t walked through Mott Haven lately, the South Bronx neighborhood is in the middle of a genuine commercial expansion. New businesses are opening, major development is underway, and the stretch along Third Avenue and Grand Concourse is looking different than it did even a year ago. Here’s a current-state rundown of what’s new, […]