anthony: how does the joke begin? three men in a bar? but it s not a bar. imagine the bronx a corner bodega, or maybe a luncheonette, a diner, three men, strictly by coincidence, find themselves in the same place at the same time. sitting at the counter is afrika bambaataa. across the room is melle mel. door opens, and who walks in? dj kool herc. three men who created the musical style that s become the soundtrack to, well, the whole wide world. do they all nod at each other? lament how all of them got screwed over, cut out of the big money? or just laugh at the absurdity of it all? hip-hop it came from nowhere else. it could have come from nowhere else but the bronx. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la anthony: this is the br
The town’s Planning and Zoning Board voted to recommend a luxury condo proposal at the site of the Champlain Towers South collapse, despite objections.
188 cuchifritos on 188th street and the grand concourse. old school new york puerto rican good stuff. get within 20 feet of this place and prepare to lose your freaking mind. baron ambrosia: cuchifrito itself is basically fried pig. the ears, the tongue, chopped up and deep-fried. anthony: so off-cut pig parts, deep-fried? what s not to like about that? baron ambrosia: right. anthony: what s that, the shank there? baron ambrosia: yeah, they re cutting meat off the shoulder. we re got to get that in there. anthony: oh yeah. baron ambrosia: big piece of chicharrón with the skin just chopped up. anthony: so, skin baron ambrosia: skin, fat. anthony: skin and fat? baron ambrosia: yeah. it s almost like a little meat candy bar. anthony: it s amazing. it s amazing. baron ambrosia: morcilla. anthony: morcilla for sure. baron ambrosia: it s always morcilla. anthony: and then what else do we need? some, uh, plátano? baron ambrosia: yeah. anthony: puerto ri
i will never forget that. i lost my best friend. she was my best friend in life. the life of my life. i don t want to go through 88th street and look at a building of people that they don t care what our pain was and is and is going to be forever. the grief is different for everyone, but everyone that we have spoken to tells us that their pain is forever. they know that this property that it has to be sold, and that this people who live here need money, and what they are hoping is that someone, the federal government, state government or local will step in and buy the property so that people can be financially compensated and then turn it into a public permanent memorial, and geoff, the families would like the white house the weigh in on this specifically president biden, because they met with him, and they spent a lot of time talking