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

The Brownville and Crown Heights communities are grieving the loss of two young people to gun violence. A 15-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man were killed within a mile from each other Tuesday evening. The NYPD has identified the 15-year-old victim as Heath Campbell and the 21-year-old victim as Nickalos Mitchell.

A man who set out to avenge a slain rapper, but wound up wounding an innocent teen, was sentenced to prison Tuesday for the botched Bronx revenge shooting.

Around 8 p.m. a person walked into an apartment building on Hoe Ave. near Home St. and fired a gun at the two victims, who live in the same apartment, police and relatives said.

Their jails in their own countries are a lot worse than here. They don’t care about being locked up here, so they should be deported,” said a man in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) called on the city to stop treating his home borough like “a dumping ground” for shelters, as the Adams administration prepares to move thousands of migrant men to the neighborhood.

South Bronx residents voiced their strong opposition—often shouting down members of the Adams administration—regarding the city’s plan to

Nine more former detainees are accusing an ex-staffer at a Bronx juvenile detention center of sexually abusing them as children, according to an avalanche of lawsuits that city lawyers are trying to shut down by drawing parallels to Sean “Diddy” Combs.

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

A Bronx woman was sentenced to 18 years in prison Tuesday in Queens Supreme Court for killing a 62-year-old Uber passenger while drag racing

City’s five-day streak of no shooting victims ended loudly 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 city’s transportation commissioner headed to Brooklyn for some work in the streets to mark an Adams administration milestone.