New Yorker writer Ian Frazier takes readers on a twisty and entertaining tour of the Bronx's rich history, landscape and people.

Merchants and residents in a South Bronx neighborhood are crying foul over plans to open a massive new migrant men’s shelter next month, calling the move dangerous.

The gunfire ended a remarkable period of no one shot in five days, from Saturday night to Thursday night, for the first time since the NYPD began keeping detailed records 30 years ago.

Jeanette Meyran — whose husband Lt. Curtis Meyran was one of three firefighters killed in two blazes on Jan. 23, 2005 — fought back tears at an FDNY ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the catastrophe. “It’s hard to be here,” she said of the Bronx firehouse where the event was held.

New York City’s five-day streak of no shooting victims ended with a bang with two people hit by gunfire within three hours, police said Friday. At 10:11 p.m. Thursday, the NYPD announced on X that no one had been shot in the five boroughs since Saturday.

The NYPD said a 32-year-old man holding a kitchen knife was shot inside the stairwell of a Bronx apartment building by officers responding to a 911 call for an attempted robbery.

Emergency responders are at the scene of an MTA bus accident in the Bronx. The bus could be seen partially hanging above an overpass after smashing through a wall.

It’s now been two decades since six FDNY firefighters were forced to leap from the fourth floor of a Bronx building, killing two and critically injuring four

An arctic air mass settled over New York City and much of the country Sunday evening, bringing a deep freeze and the chance of more snow than the city has seen in three years.

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At 10:16 p.m., cops in East New York, Brooklyn were called to Linden Blvd ... in the Soundview section of the Bronx. The teen told police that he was walking down Watson Ave.

Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to open a 2,200-bed shelter for migrant men in the South Bronx is being met with massive resistance from residents and elected