The story begins during a scorching NYC summer, where we follow 19-year-old Bronx boy Ricardo, or Rico (Juan Collado), as he combs Orchard Beach selling illegal mixed drinks (known as “nut busters” or ...

Joel Alfonso Vargas on Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) A sweltering summer in the Bronx serves as the backdrop for Mad Bills to ...

Set in the Bronx, Vargas’ hometown ... old who sells “nutcracker” cocktails on the scorching sands of Orchard Beach. Life gets even more complicated when he gets 16-year-old Destiny ...

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A new book charts the rise and fall of a short-lived haven for working-class immigrants and their soon-to-be upwardly mobile ...

The South Bronx, already burdened by a large number of pollution-spewing trucks that contribute to elevated rates of asthma, is of particular concern. And some preliminary data from the first two ...

Bird flu has hit the zoo. Over a dozen ducks and wild birds at the Queens and Bronx zoos have died, likely all due to the avian flu sweeping the country. Three ducks at the Queens Zoo died after ...

An MTA bus operator was miraculously unharmed after nearly plunging off a Bronx parkway overpass Friday morning, police said. Videos posted on Citizen shows the front of the bus precariously ...

NEW YORK - An MTA bus crashed into a retaining wall Friday in the Bronx, leaving a portion of the vehicle hanging off an overpass. Residents in the area said they were shocked to learn no one was ...

A suspect was arrested in the murder of an ambulette driver whose body was found in the back of the vehicle on a Bronx street, according to police. Sharief Bodden was arrested Friday and faces a ...