Many Residents Now Can Shape How Money is Spent, But Will They?
More New Yorkers than ever before will take part in participatory budgeting this year. Can organizers engage enough residents in a process that relies on their engagement to succeed?
Bronx
Bronx Housing Boom Could Crowd Classrooms
Community activists and parents call on Department of Education for help
South Bronx Food Pantry Tackles Poverty
In an area struggling with poverty, one resident learns that there is no shame in asking for temporary help.
At the Job Center on East Fordham Road, Keeping the Faith
As unemployment numbers in the Bronx are falling but stay higher than anywhere else in the City, at the Work Force 1 on East Fordham Road, job seekers don’t lose faith.
In The Bronx, Reaching for More
Three residents who are stretching for the next rung on their economic ladder
At a Food Pantry in the South Bronx: Long Lines
“If I was working, I wouldn’t be coming here.”
Taking Some Me-Time in the Bronx
Margie Trisband bought her first house on the Grand Concourse in 1968, and has been a Bronxite ever since. Now that her husband and one of her sons are gone, she would like to take some time for herself.
South Bronx Defender
Public defender Shaf’on Venable wants to make a difference in her clients’ lives.
The Sweet Smell of the Bronx
The only fragrance manufacturer in the five boroughs makes scents for big-name designers
Apple-Picking Robbers Caught Enjoying Their Fruit
There’s an app for that robbery: two New Yorkers who were robbed at gunpoint Monday, Oct 7 got their phones back and helped arrest the men who targeted them, police said.