Community News

6+ hour, 31+ min ago   (399+ words) A coalition of West Bronx and Upper Manhattan elected officials are urging the owners of the Shops at Marble Hill to prohibit federal immigration agents from using the plaza’s Target parking lot as a staging area for enforcement activity. In…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (788+ words) A new clubhouse in the Bronx is offering something medication alone cannot: connection, purpose and community. The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC Health) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sept. 28 to celebrate the opening of the newly constructed…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (949+ words) The New York City Department of Transportation is proposing a new bicycle network through Throggs Neck that would add protected bike lanes, change traffic patterns on several neighborhood streets and repurpose an estimated 70 parking spaces. DOT presented the proposal to…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (964+ words) One enters Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous with Jackson Pollock already lodged in the cultural imagination. His poured filaments belong to modernism’s grammar; even those who have never stood before one recognize the ritual of the man circling a canvas....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (150+ words) And this is more than an inconvenience. One day, as I was getting into my mom’s van to go to work, a chunk broke off one of my casters. My wheelchair jerked sideways and fell over with me still in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (741+ words) A group of disabled transit riders and accessibility advocates want the MTA to push the reservation deadline for its Access-a-Ride paratransit service several hours back, from 5 p.m. until 11:59 p.m., the night before the day of their scheduled trip. One after another, during…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (576+ words) A new education campus is coming to Floyd Bennett Field, where nonprofit Runway Green has signed a 60-year lease with the National Park Service to transform seven acres of the historic Brooklyn airfield into a hub for hands-on learning. The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (545+ words) In the middle of Climate Week NYC, Fordham University President Tania Tetlow and Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson announced a $1 million commitment to the Bronx Green Job Center, along with an additional $1.5 million from Con Edison, bringing the total investment…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (185+ words) NEW YORK, NY – September 23, 2026 – NBC New York, Telemundo 47, and Comcast NBCUniversal announced more than $227,000 has been awarded to five local nonprofit organizations through the 2026 NBCUniversal Local Impact Grants. Since 2018, NBC 4 New York and Telemundo 47 have now provided more than $2.2 million…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (393+ words) "It's actually allegedly being built out now," said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two. "We'll see. This fall opening date is very vague in my mind." The move is notable partly because of how…...