This may not be the Bronx of the 1970s, but the factors that once made fire so prevalent here have not disappeared. The Bronx ...
During the 1977 World Series, fires outside Yankee Stadium prompted broadcaster Howard Cosell to make his famous announcement: “Ladies and gentleman, the Bronx is burning.” That encapsulated the ...
A few miles away, Gloribel Castillo, a lifelong Bronx resident who works two shifts as a cleaner in Manhattan hotels, received a text message saying that the rent measures would be approved by the New ...