Speed roundup today, folks:
Good stuff on the Times‘ Lens blog about the upcoming exhibition at the Bronx Documentary Center, “Seis Del Sur,” featuring the work of several renowned lcoal photojournalists who shot the borough during the 1970s and 80s.
Bronx Doc Center co-founder Michael Kamber tells the Daily News that the exhibit has an insider feel: “The outsider’s view was just that it was drugs, crimes and fires. The insider’s view is quite different,” said Bronx Documentary Center founder Michael Kamber. “There is a lot of community, social activism, families and people just going on with their lives the best way they could.”
A worker from New Jersey fell to his death this morning from the High Bridge, where city officials just launched a huge makeover project yesterday. [Daily News]
The German company that was reported to be under investigation for work it did on the Croton Water Filtration Plant project in Van Cortlandt Park, admitted that one of it’s related companies defrauded the city, according to the NY Times, which broke the story yesterday.
That’s it for today. Send links, news tips, rumors and pictures of the Bronx to us at norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org.
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