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The Uncertain History of the Bronx Fires

Politics / Books & the Arts / In Born in Flames, Bench Ansfield asks, who, or what, is responsible for the arson epidemic ...
Morningstar

Concrete Leprechaun: An Irish-American Coming-of-Age Story Set in the 1970s Bronx

NEW YORK, July 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Set against the raw, unforgiving backdrop of the 1970s Bronx, Concrete Leprechaun is a coming-of-age tale that cuts deep into the heart of identity, manhood, ...
phillyvoice.com

Landlords set their buildings ablaze in the 1970s. A Temple professor explains why in new book

When he was a teenager, Joe Willis recalled, he started doing odd jobs for his Philadelphia landlord. He'd paint an apartment, wash a car, empty trash cans. But the work wasn't frequent enough to make ...
abc7NY

Tiempo 10/13/24: Photos capture South Bronx's Puerto Rican community of 1970s and 1980s

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- On this edition of Tiempo, it's our final show in the 2024 celebration of Hispanic and Latin American Heritage Month. We'll highlight the Bronx photographers who documented the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

He kicked off the 1970s klezmer revival. Now, he’s paying tribute to New York’s vast global music scene.

Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir. Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on ...
City & State New York

Bronx housing nonprofits are responding to a new set of challenges

When Derrick Lovett became head of MBD Community Housing Corporation in 2010, he took stock of the properties maintained by the nonprofit, which formed in 1974 as the Mid-Bronx Desperadoes. The ...