Category Archives: Bronx

Tablet Magazine: Mosque, ultra-Orthodox synagogue share one roof in the Bronx

By Ted Regencia and Lindsay Minerva (Photography by Ted Regencia) To read the full story, please visit Tablet Magazine

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Stimulus money creates green jobs in South Bronx

Text and photo by Ted Regencia In the borough where the unemployment rate hovers around 12.3 percent—the highest in the state–“green-collar” jobs in heating, cooling, and window retrofitting are still experiencing modest growth. That’s due in large part to 2010 … Continue reading

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Images of the Libyan conflict find a South Bronx audience

Text, video and images by Ted Regencia and Diane Jeantet One image shows an elderly man and two boys posing with spent mortar shells. Another captures a family fleeing a wrecked building, terror etched on their faces. In still another, … Continue reading

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A view from the Bronx: The 2011 New York City marathon

Text and photo by Ted Regencia NEW YORK — With their running shoes ready and their energy in high gear, this year’s 47,000 plus New York City marathoners gathered last Sunday in Staten Island for the 41st time that the … Continue reading

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After midnight with the fishmongers in the Bronx

Text, photo and audio by Ted Regencia NEW YORK — It’s been almost six years since the New Fulton Fish Market moved to The Bronx on Nov. 14, 2005 after 180 years of smelling up lower Manhattan. The $86-million, half-mile long … Continue reading

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Despite controversy, nun still calls Hunts Point home

Text and photo by Ted Regencia NEW YORK – On a warm and sunny morning a few Sundays ago, Sister Thomas found herself resting on a chair while overseeing the weekly rummage sale at the garage next to the red brick … Continue reading

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Yemenis in South Bronx can’t forget the turmoil they left behind

Text by Ted Regencia and Mahmoud Sabbagh/Photo by Ted Regencia NEW YORK — “Papa, take me with you,” Abu Hamad recalled his five-year-old son pleading with him on the phone from Sana’a last Oct. 10. The Hunts Point shopkeeper’s half … Continue reading

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