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Jada Pinkett Smith and Santos at the Lit. Bar in Mott Haven earlier this month.

Books

Reviving the Bronx’s literary scene: Lit. Bar sparks bookstore renaissance in the borough, attracts celebrities

By Steven Goodstein

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Outdoors

Light up the NYC night with this free bike light giveaway

By ET Rodriguez

Mott Haven film festival founder

Arts & Entertainment

The Mott Haven Film Festival is back and hopes to become a mainstay in the festival space

By ET Rodriguez

RXR Realty will be hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony at its newest development in Mott Haven on Oct. 18, 2023 at 2413 3rd Ave.

Development

Developers to officially open new 200-unit, art immersive residential building in Mott Haven

By Camille Botello

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Health

Bronxites come together for International Overdose Awareness Day, call for remembrance and action

By Aliya Schneider

Ghetto Film School students make progress on their coursework on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.

Lifestyle

The Bronx’s Ghetto Film School: Where ‘story is the heart of everything’

By Camille Botello

Students collaborated in high-tech and low-tech ways to create their original video game. Photo Other Possible Games staff

Education

Game on: Hostos internship offers paid video game design course, the first of its kind in New York

By Emily Swanson

Community

Second-ever Bronx Poet Laureate Kay Bell ready to teach and learn

By Aliya Schneider

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Arts & Entertainment

Hostos arts center receives $130K through City Council Theaters of Color grant

By Aliya Schneider

a rendering shows a lounge on the roof of the development

Development

Lottery open for Mott Haven luxury apartment building for low to middle incomes

By Aliya Schneider

Community

Two BronxWorks seasonal farm stands to open this week in the South Bronx

By Emily Swanson

The South Bronx is home to two gas-powered peaker plants, Harlem River Yards and Hell Gate (pictured). Photo Adrian Childress

Environment

South Bronxites say no to Harlem River Yards permit renewal

By Emily Swanson

An old tattered foam mattress with protruding springs in a room with dirty walls. Poverty, disorder

Courts

Squatting couple indicted after children found locked in a room, eating a mattress in Mitchel Houses

By Aliya Schneider

Rep. Ritchie Torres announces new ghost gun legislation at University Prep Charter School June 20, 2023

Shootings

Angellyh Yambo Gun Free Zone Expansion Act announced in front of namesake’s former South Bronx high school

By Emily Swanson

Bronx shooter and alleged cohort

AMNY

Brazen Bronx shooter sought for opening fire on group a block away from precinct stationhouse

stock photo of a person riding a motorcycle

Transit

Fatal Major Deegan incident added to toll of deadly motorcycle crashes on Bronx highways

By Aliya Schneider

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio attend a dinner with the leaders of the C5+1Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 6, 2025.

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