Breaking was created by African-American and Latino youths in the Bronx borough of New York City in the 1970s when hip-hop culture was coming to life. A DJ called Kool Herc was throwing ...

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 ...

Yet even through the "Bronx in burning" 1970s and high-crime 1980s, the seeds of a new vitality were planted. "The Bronx invented an art form (hip hop) that went around the world.

We'll highlight the Bronx photographers who documented the South Bronx Puerto Rican community in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Their photos are on display in an exhibit at the Museum of Bronx ...

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 ...

The Bronx was one of New York City's worst slum areas in the 1970s Image: Jim Wells/AP Photo/picture alliance There was great poverty, with a majority of residents living on welfare.

In the South Bronx in the 1970s, a new kind of dance began to emerge and anyone could do it. It didn’t require much, maybe a piece of cardboard.

What's now referred to as old-school hip hop began developing in the late 1970s People attend "Hip Hop Til Infinity," a new immersive exhibit, at the Hall des Lumieres in New York City AFP New ...

Smith grew up in the Bronx in the 1970s as hip-hop was developing and went to high school with future hip-hop stars Slick Rick and Dana Dane The exhibition runs through Aug. 20, and admission is free ...

Cornell 'Black Benjie' 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 ...

Opinion Bronx street renaming honors murdered 1970s gang leader and peacemaker ‘Black Benjie’ Leonard Greene, New York Daily News Sat, June 3, 2023, 1:23 PM PDT 3 min read ...