Barbara Akowuah

Not many tourist consider the Bronx an option when visiting New York City. The Bronx, however, is the gem of New York City. A great place to go whether you’re looking for bargains, want to take a stroll on the beach, visit some animals at the zoo, go fishing, watch a great ball game, or enjoy some delicious ethnic food.

For many years the Bronx has been a second home to the majority of Puerto Rican immigrants coming to the U.S. In fact for a long time now the Bronx has held the record for the largest Puerto Rican population outside of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican presence is felt all over the Bronx, from the annual Bronx Puerto Rican Day Parade in Grand Concourse to the surplus of Bodegas on street corners, the Bronx continues to remain the epicenter of Nuyorican culture.

The College football season is set to begin in September and although the Northeast isn’t known for it’s football prowess there are a number of local teams that have many fans anxious about the upcoming season. There are few teams here locally that have caught the attention of College football fans including the already widely popular Syracuse Orangemen, the newly crowned Cinderella team the Rutgers Scarlett Knights and the Bronx’s own Fordham Rams.

Back with his latest project G.O.O.D. music prodigy Common gives music fans a refreshing sound of pure hip-hop fused with soul and creativity. With Finding Forever Common gives us the usuals, great beats, soulful rhythms with equally matching lyrics and a little touch of intrigue. With “The People” which is the first single to be released from the album, Common takes us back to old school Hip-Hop when lyrics were meant to inspire and rhythms were more than just simple beats.

The Bronx is the birth place to many genres of music from Hip-Hop to Salsa, and since the early stages of New York’s music scene the Bronx has cemented its role in the ever evolving subculture of New York City inspired music.

Within the last two decades the Bronx has had its fair share of vice. From crime sprees in the south Bronx to disputes over real estate in the north Bronx.