During the 1977 World Series, fires outside Yankee Stadium prompted broadcaster Howard Cosell to make his famous announcement: “Ladies and gentleman, the Bronx is burning.” That encapsulated the ...

Indifference is rarely a word associated with the New York Yankees, especially the 1970s teams that were so easy to worship or detest thanks to the amount of money George Steinbrenner was spending, ...

What set the Bronx burning? Common answers to these questions tend to stumble out, bleary-eyed, from the same fog of faulty memory. It was arsonists of some kind—bored and lawless kids, maybe , or the ...

Flanked by union reps, fellow Bronx pols and residents holding photos of burning buildings, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. warned that the mayor’s plan to cut firehouses could bring back the dark ...