Culture
Kingsbridge Historical Society Appeals for Help Funding Upkeep of 135-Year-Old EdgeHill Church
Hip Hop Comes Home!
Though most argue it hasn’t ever left, Hip Hop officially came home to 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Morris Heights section of The Bronx with a special free block party and concert, marking its 50th anniversary at its birthplace on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023. Performers included KRS One, Flavor Flav of Public Enemy, The Sugar Hill Gang, Slick Rick, Talib Kweli of Black Starr, the Cold Crush Brothers, Chuck D, C.L. Smooth, Hakim Green, Wise Intelligent, Peter Gunz, and many more.
Vote for the “Spicebush” and Help The Bronx and the NYBG Establish NYC’s Official Wildflower
Fifth Annual 48-Hour Film Challenge “Wraps” in the Oval
Lehman Center Fall Season: Mambo Legends Orchestra, Lucrecia, Nelson Gonzalez & Del Caribe Latin Jazz All Stars
Documentary Film “1.5 Million” Deals with Illiteracy in The Bronx
There was outrage in The Bronx when the last general-interest bookstore, Barnes & Noble, shut down permanently in 2017. Many Bronxites saw it as evidence that the borough is not viewed in a positive light and is forgotten when it comes to its intellectual curiosity. For filmmaker Gregory Hernandez, the turmoil gave him an idea to tell a story about illiteracy in the borough. The result is the film “1.5 Million: A Bronx Documentary” which, as preadvised, screened at the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL) on Aug. 28.
New Yorkers for Parks Kicks off 22nd Annual Daffodil Project Distribution Honoring Lives Lost to 9/11 and COVID-19
New Yorkers for Parks announced on Wednesday, Sept. 13, the distribution points and times for this year’s Daffodil Project which, as New York’s largest annual volunteer program, gives people across New York City daffodils to plant as a living memorial to honor New Yorkers lost to 9/11 and COVID-19. Since the Daffodil Project’s inception in 2001, over 400,000 volunteers have planted more than 9 million daffodil bulbs.