2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1049+ words) At the Riverdale Neighborhood House on May 7, a room full of older adults leaned over phones and laptops, testing artificial intelligence prompts on Claude and Chat GPT for the first time. One participant used AI to help write a birthday…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (831+ words) English Language Learners and International Support Preparatory Academy, ELLIS, raised more than $65, 000 in scholarship funds for its 62 seniors graduating this June " a crucial need in the wake of rising college tuition costs and reduced federal aid. Principal Norma Vega launched…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (827+ words) Along Stevenson Place in Van Cortlandt Village, trimmed shrubs line the street and lush greenery towers overhead. As a soft breeze rustles the leaves, with it comes the foul odor of sewage water. Van Cortlandt Village is a historic neighborhood…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1044+ words) A study presented during an April full board meeting of Bronx Community Board 8 is shedding light on the changing commercial landscape across greater Riverdale. The report was conducted by Kahdija Jabbi, a Community Planning Fellow and Baruch College MPA candidate....

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (1077+ words) Northwest Bronx residents are urging Citizens Bank to cut financial ties with for-profit private prison companies operating dozens of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities. Since January, residents and members of Northwest Bronx Indivisible have fervently gathered outside the bank's…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (870+ words) A Bronx food pantry is expanding its efforts through a hygiene and personal care drive, but organizers say the initiative is about more than collecting basic necessities. In a borough where more than a third of residents are foreign-born, Montefiore's…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1044+ words) A study presented during an April full board meeting of Bronx Community Board 8 is shedding light on the changing commercial landscape across greater Riverdale. The report was conducted by Kahdija Jabbi, a Community Planning Fellow and Baruch College MPA candidate....

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1077+ words) Northwest Bronx residents are urging Citizens Bank to cut financial ties with for-profit private prison companies operating dozens of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities. Since January, residents and members of Northwest Bronx Indivisible have fervently gathered outside the bank's…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (779+ words) A group of six girls from the P. S. 86 Kingsbridge Heights School are the reigning elementary Bronx champions in the Minecraft Education "Battle of the Boroughs," a competition where participants build a Minecraft world that imagines a more sustainable version of city…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (687+ words) Fourteen trafficked toucans have fully recovered at the Bronx Zoo after federal authorities confiscated the birds at the United States-Mexico border last summer. At just three to four months old, the rescued toucans were found sedated and bound at the…...