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In the South Bronx, an Arts Center Offers Free Meals to Its Community During Pandemic
During the COVID-19 crisis, DreamYard pivoted its community-forward mission to provide free lunches on weekdays.
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"This Question Is Loaded": South Bronx Artists and Organizers Imagine Their Neighborhood's Future
“Our ideal vision for the South Bronx is economic upliftment, an end to environmental degradation, and quality-of-life enhancement without displacement."
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In the South Bronx, Locals Respond to an Anti-Gentrification Mural
The vivid, comic book–like mural depicts bees being driven from their hives by "evil crops developer Dr. Dor," a white hipster type with skinny black trousers and square-frame eyeglasses.
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What Will Become of the South Bronx?
The South Bronx is quickly becoming a nexus of competing interests vying for control of a housing and arts frontier that could become the next Brooklyn.
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How One Artist Found Affordable Studio Space in New York
Among New York artists’ ongoing quest for affordable studio space within the city, one artist relates his story of having discovered a studio in the South Bronx that is first and foremost inexpensive.
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Rebel Diaz Arts Collective in the Bronx Raided and Shut Down
The South Bronx-based arts community center Rebel Diaz Arts Collective was reportedly shut down yesterday and locked out of their converted warehouse space. A rally/press conference is being held tonight at 6 pm outside their building at 478 Austin Place.