Our Bronx

Formerly the Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition.

Founded in 1974, we unite diverse people and institutions to work for racial justice and economic democracy through intergenerational organizing to transform the Bronx and beyond.

09/21/2026

📣 Join Our Bronx for our September Community Meeting!

Come hear what’s happening across our campaigns, get updates on our work, and share your voice on the issues affecting Bronx communities.

We’ll be talking about community ownership, housing stability and affordability, including updates on COPA (Community Opportunity to Purchase Act) and the SAFER Homes Act. We’ll also share ways you can get involved and take action with us.

🤝 Come connect, ask questions, share your perspective, and help build stronger, more affordable communities in the Bronx.

📅 Saturday, September 26
🕚 11:00 AM
📍 Andrew Freedman Home
1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10452

All are welcome. See you there!

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¡Únase a nuestra reunión comunitaria de septiembre de Our Bronx!

Venga a conocer las novedades de nuestras campañas, nuestros avances y los temas que afectan a las comunidades del Bronx.

Hablaremos sobre la propiedad comunitaria, la estabilidad y la vivienda asequible, incluyendo actualizaciones sobre COPA (Ley de Oportunidad Comunitaria para Comprar) y la Ley SAFER Homes. También compartiremos cómo puede involucrarse y tomar acción con nosotros.

🤝 Venga a conectar con sus vecinos, hacer preguntas, compartir su opinión y ayudar a construir comunidades más fuertes y asequibles en el Bronx.

📅 Sábado, 26 de septiembre
🕚 11:00 AM
📍 Andrew Freedman Home
1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10452

¡Todos son bienvenidos!

09/15/2026

💡 Help Light Up Kingsbridge! 💡

Our Bronx is working on a new lighting and placemaking project along the Kingsbridge Road commercial corridor, and we want to hear from the community! Your feedback can help shape the lighting fixtures, locations, and stories that highlight the history and culture of Kingsbridge.

📝 Take our community survey:
🔗 bit.ly/lightupkingsbridge
⏱️ Takes about 7 minutes
📅 Deadline: October 5th

Your voice can help shape the project. Take the survey and share your ideas!

💡 ¡Ayúdanos a iluminar Kingsbridge! 💡

Our Bronx está trabajando en un nuevo proyecto de iluminación y embellecimiento comunitario a lo largo del corredor comercial de Kingsbridge Road, ¡y queremos escuchar a nuestra comunidad! Tus comentarios pueden ayudar a definir las luces, sus ubicaciones y las historias que destaquen la historia y cultura de Kingsbridge.

📝 Completa nuestra encuesta comunitaria:
🔗 bit.ly/lightupkingsbridge
⏱️ Toma aproximadamente 7 minutos
📅 Fecha límite: 5 de octubre

Tu voz puede ayudar a darle forma al proyecto. ¡Completa la encuesta y comparte tus ideas!

09/04/2026

A Huge Loss for the Bronx 🖤📰

Norwood News has published its final print edition this August and is beginning an indefinite hiatus in both print and online. We’re taking a moment to honor what this longtime community newspaper has meant to the Bronx, to Our Bronx, and to the generations of Bronx residents and organizers whose stories filled its pages.

For decades, Norwood News showed up for NWBCCC (now Our Bronx), documenting housing struggles, community fights, neighborhood victories, and the people organizing to build a better borough. Its reporting helped preserve our history and the record of residents building power together.

We’re especially grateful that Our Bronx was part of Norwood News’ final print chapter with "From NWBCCC to Our Bronx: Building Community Power Across Generations.” The story reflects a history that stretches from the founding of the Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition in 1974 to Our Bronx today, and the generations of Bronx residents who have continued the work of building community power and shaping the future of their neighborhoods.

The loss of Norwood News is felt deeply. The Bronx needs local journalism that knows our communities, tells our stories, and makes sure our history doesn’t disappear.

Thank you, Norwood News, for being part of that history and for telling our stories for so many years.

📖 Read the full feature and revisit the people, history, and movements that continue to shape Our Bronx: bit.ly/ourbronxnorwood

09/03/2026

🏠 TAKE ACTION FOR HOUSING! 📣
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Our communities deserve housing we can afford, and a real voice in decisions that affect where we live.

Join Our Bronx on Wednesday, September 9th at City Hall for the COPA & SAFER Homes Rally + Hearing as we demand action on housing protections and community ownership.

📍 9:00 AM : Rally on the steps of City Hall
📍 10:00 AM : Legislative Hearing, 250 Broadway
🎤 Want to testify? Arrive at 250 Broadway by 12:00 PM to get through security. Public testimony is expected to begin between 1:00–2:00 PM and may continue into the evening.

Share your experience and speak up about COPA, SAFER Homes, co-ops, Community Land Trusts, code enforcement, affordability, and the housing issues affecting your community.

Can’t make it in person? You can still submit written testimony up to 72 hours after the hearing is adjourned at council.nyc.gov/testify

📣 TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell your City Council Member and Council Speaker Julie Menin to support COPA & SAFER Homes. Use the coalition action tool: bit.ly/supportCOPA

📧 RSVP: [email protected]

09/01/2026

Check out our upcoming events calendar and join us this fall! 🍂🏡
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From housing justice rallies and community meetings to co-op education, town halls, resource fairs, and our end-of-year celebration, there are plenty of ways to learn, connect, organize, and build together.

📅 September–December 2026
📍 Across the Bronx & NYC
🤝 Come be part of the work to advance community ownership, housing stability, economic democracy, and stronger communities.

Save the dates, share with your network, and join us! ✊🏽

📩 For more information: [email protected]

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08/26/2026

Housing is about people, families, and the future of our neighborhoods. 🏠✊🏽

Across the Bronx, rising rents, unsafe conditions, and the loss of affordable housing are pushing longtime residents
out of the communities they call home. That’s why Our Bronx is fighting for solutions.

COPA, the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, would give qualified community organizations and
mission-driven entities an opportunity to help preserve affordable housing when certain multifamily properties are put up for sale.

SAFER HOMES would strengthen the City’s ability to hold landlords accountable and make sure New Yorkers have
safe, healthy, properly maintained homes.

Now, we’re taking that fight to City Hall, and we need you with us.

📍 COPA/SAFER HOMES Rally & Hearing
📅 Wednesday, September 9
🕘 9:00 AM, Rally at City Hall Steps
🏛️ 10:00 AM, Legislative Hearing at 250 Broadway

Can’t make the rally? You can still testify at the hearing. Plan to arrive at 250 Broadway by 12 PM to get through
security. Public testimony is expected to begin between 1 and 2 PM and may continue into the late afternoon or
evening. If you can’t testify in person, written testimony may be submitted up to 72 hours after the hearing has been adjourned. Visit council.nyc.gov/testify to submit.

You can speak about COPA, SAFER HOMES, co-ops, Community Land Trusts, code enforcement, affordability, or the housing issues affecting your community.

📣 Call your City Council Member and tell them to support COPA and SAFER HOMES.

Then join Our Bronx at City Hall on September 9 and make your voice heard.

08/05/2026

🎉 Join us as we celebrate a year of victories, growth, and community at our first Annual BBQ as Our Bronx!

From launching our new name and brand to celebrating 6 years of the Bronx Community Land Trust, hosting the Bronx's first-ever Economic Development Summit, and marking 52 years of organizing for housing, economic, and environmental justice, we couldn't have done it without you.

📅 Saturday, August 29
🕒 3:00–6:00 PM
📍 103 E. 196th Street, Bronx, NY

Come enjoy great food, music, games, and family-friendly fun as we celebrate everything we've built together, and the work ahead. We can't wait to see you there!

Let us know you're coming! RSVP by emailing [email protected]

07/17/2026

Our second and last stop on the Bronx Community Ownership Bus Tour brought us to Soundview, where Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ) is transforming 37,500 square feet beneath the Bruckner Expressway into the Soundview Economic Hub. ✊🏽🏗️

What was once underutilized space is becoming a community-driven center for economic opportunity, entrepreneurship, workforce training, food access, arts, and neighborhood connection.

For decades, YMPJ has organized alongside Bronx residents for environmental, economic, and racial justice while helping transform neglected infrastructure into public spaces that serve the community. The Soundview Economic Hub continues that legacy, proving what's possible when development is shaped by local residents, artists, and vendors. 🌱

The Soundview Economic Hub along with all our stops on the Bronx Community Ownership Bus Tours reflect the vision of a stronger, more equitable Bronx, one where community ownership, local investment, and resident-led development create lasting opportunities for generations to come.

Learn more about the Bronx Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and how you can help shape the borough's future by visiting linktr.ee/bronxceds

🎥: Dendera Studios · Video Production & Social Media

07/16/2026

Despite the rain, community members joined the third Bronx Community Ownership Bus Tour led by Our Bronx and the Bronx Wide Coalition back in April. 🌧️🚌

Stop 1 with THE POINT CDC took us through Hunts Point to explore environmental justice and the impacts of environmental racism in the Bronx, along with community ownership models for a just transition. We highlighted local solutions like mesh WiFi, community solar, and transformed public green spaces. 🌱

We visited Barreto Point Park and Hunts Point Riverside Park, a former illegal dumping site now reimagined as a vibrant waterfront space with fishing piers, kayak launches, and open access for the community.

These efforts reflect years of community organizing and show what's possible when residents lead the fight for healthier, more equitable neighborhoods.

🚌 Next Stop: YMPJ’s Soundview Economic Hub!

🎥: Dendera Studios · Video Production & Social Media

06/08/2026

For two inspiring days, community leaders, residents, workers, organizers, small business owners, educators, labor unions, faith leaders, investors, planners, and government partners came together at the historic Andrew Freedman Home for the Bronx’s first-ever Economic Development Summit.

Together, we explored what it takes to build an economy that works for the people who already call the Bronx home, one rooted in community wealth, shared ownership, economic democracy, and long-term opportunity.

From housing stability and stronger commercial corridors to worker ownership, local investment, and community-led development, the conversations were bold, honest, and action-oriented. Most importantly, they reinforced a powerful truth: the people of the Bronx create its wealth, and they deserve to share in it.

This Summit marks an important milestone, but the work continues through new partnerships, working groups, and the implementation of the Bronx's first Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy.

📅 Join Our Bronx and ICA Group on June 17 from 10–11 AM for an information session on a new training program designed for Bronx organizations that support local businesses. Learn how worker-owned cooperatives can strengthen economic development and hear about an upcoming fellowship and workshop series.

🔗 Register: bit.ly/ourbronxtraininginfo

📖 Read the full Bronx Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) draft report and share your feedback. Your voice is critical to shaping the borough's economic future.

🔗 Link in bio.

Thank you to every speaker, facilitator, organizer, volunteer, and participant who brought their vision, energy, and commitment to the table.

📸: Muneeba Hassan | Mariam Nizharadze | Sonyi Lopez

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103 E 196th Street
New York, NY
10468

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http://www.ourbronx.org/

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