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The mall and recreation complex coming to the Kingsbridge Armory will undoubtedly host well-known retail stores and provide more goods to local shoppers, but it is unclear if this kind of new business will provide good jobs for Bronx workers.
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Sloan Mandell thought he had found the perfect spot to open his jewelry store when he rented a space on Orchard St. In the first week, his store, Exhibitionist, cleared $5,000 in sales.
“We all thought we were going to be rich,” Mandell said of himself and his partners. The following week the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks took place. Read More
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Ida Ortiz-Colon swam in the LaGuardia Bathhouse five decades ago.
“It was awesome,” said Ortiz-Colon, who has lived on the Lower East Side for 52 years. “They had lifeguards and basketball courts. It was great.”
Now Ortiz-Colon wants kids in her neighborhood to have the same opportunity she did. The city closed the three-story building during the 1970s financial crisis and never reopened it.
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A young man in a baseball cap hurried past Doughnut Plant, a bakery a few blocks from the Manhattan entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge.
“Those doughnuts are the best in the world,” the man crowed to his female companion. “They have pumpkin doughnuts. They have apple cinnamon doughnuts.” His friend looked back over her shoulder in puzzlement.
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Trying to put two daughters through college is a difficult task. It becomes even harder when your business decreases by 40 percent over the course of a few weeks.
Such is M. Singh Gill’s dilemma, he says, thanks to the installation of the new bike lane on Ninth Avenue between 16th and 23rd Streets in Chelsea.
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The ousted principal of Brooklyn’s Arabic language and culture school reapplied for her former job Oct. 16 as she threatened to sue the city.
Debbie Almontaser broke her two-month silence, citing a campaign to “intimidate” Muslims that she believes led to her forced resignation from the Khalil Gibran International Academy in August.
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Gym class and recess have become a shrinking part of the New York City public school curriculum over the last three decades. Our guests are Lori Rose Benson, the DOE’s Director of Fitness and Physical Education and Jean Harris, Assistant Professor of Health and Physical Education at Adelphi University. They join us to discuss the challenges that public schools face in meeting city’s guidelines.
Producer: Angela Hill
Reporters: Megan Kelty, Chika Osaka
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Against the backdrop of a gray day, Tiffany & Co. painted a small corner of the Financial District blue on October 10, when it opened its second Manhattan store at 37 Wall St.
For many of the Financial District’s independent and family-owned shops, Tiffany & Co.’s return Downtown after 67 years, albeit welcome, symbolizes the area’s rapidly changing retail landscape.
“Any good name that comes into this area helps,” said Minas Polychronakis, the owner of Minas Shoe Repair.
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The city is reviewing bids from private ferry operators to run a pilot program between the Rockaways and lower Manhattan – a service officials hope will help the environment and shorten commutes.
While the city Economic Development Corporation declined to comment on a timetable, community leaders in the Rockaways were hopeful there would soon be a decision.
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Lourdes Hernández Cordero works just blocks from Highbridge Park in Washington Heights, but never noticed the long-shuttered elegant 19th-century pedestrian bridge that gave the park its name.
When the Columbia University researcher first stumbled onto the High Bridge - which starts in the park and spans the Harlem River, connecting Washington Heights to the Bronx’s Highbridge neighborhood - she was stunned.
“It was like bumping into a treasure hidden in a big chest and dusting it off and saying, ‘Oh my God. I have to put this in a place of honor,’” she said.
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