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Bronx Pride Everyday

During my travels, I ran into a fellow Bronxite who loves our borough so much…

A Day At The Beach

What better way to spend the heat wave than at the Bronx Riviera of Orchard…

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Bronx Students Learn Healthy Eating, One Tray At A Time

(Image: Angel Franco/New York Times) Great piece about a local school and their efforts to change the eating habits of over 400 kids. As we all know, most of our neighborhoods are flooded with fast food joints at every turn not leaving room to resist their temptation.  The Family Life Academy Charter School, a break…

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Hail Lechón, Full Of Grease

Even as loads of new faces from Latin America make the Bronx their home, Puerto Ricans are still the vast majority in El Condado de la Salsa. With that large majority comes a great gastronomic plethora of restaurants catering to the cuisine of Borinquen and today, David Gonzalez of the New York Times takes us…

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Down With ‘SoBro’

Originally posted on Welcome2Melrose.com Realtors…we love and hate you in New York City oh so much however, nothing pisses me off more than your inane, fabricated names for our neighborhoods.  We have beautiful, historic names such as Port Morris, Melrose, and Mott Haven. Why would you want to erase these names and lump us under…

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NYTimes: Victor Toro, Tortured in Chile, Fights Deportation

A must read on one of our own heroes.  Victor Toro has dedicated the past three decades of his life living in Mott Haven as a champion of the poor and disenfranchised. Kudos to David González for writing a great piece and photographer Michael Kamber for capturing Victor Toro’s essence. NYTimes: Victor Toro, Tortured in…

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