In the 1970s, the Bronx was burning, but some residents were rebuilding. Decade of Fire, a new documentary, tells a different story about the borough’s fires—and the communities affected by them.

Mike Amadeo, who has owned a music store in the South Bronx for nearly fifty years, remembers the blight of the 1970s.. “There were periods when we had no water, no heat. My phone was hooked up ...

From Independent Lens, the film Decade of Fire covers a shocking but untold piece of American urban history, when the South Bronx was on fire in the 1970s. Left unprotected by the city government ...

Those of us who grew up in the South Bronx during the 1970s and ’80s have been defined by the fires that incinerated our neighborhoods, which had already been set up to fail by disinvestment ...

Benjamin, 25, a founder of the Ghetto Brothers, was on his way to negotiate a peace deal between two street gangs in the South Bronx when he was brutally murdered, beaten to death with a pipe.

Following the war in Vietnam in the 1970s, thousands of people immigrated to the Bronx, including many fleeing the Khmer Rouge communist regime. Moui Nguyen and Choeum Chy were among those who ...

Following the war in Vietnam in the 1970s, thousands of people immigrated to the Bronx, including many fleeing the Khmer Rouge communist regime. Moui Nguyen and Choeum Chy were among those who ...

Jim Breheny has been at the Bronx Zoo for 51 years, starting with a role at the children's zoo when he was 14 in the early 1970s. "No, I never thought I would be in this position," he joked of his ...

Bronx street renaming honors murdered 1970s gang leader and peacemaker ‘Black Benjie ... “The narrative that’s always told is the Bronx was burning,” said Massey, ...