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Photo of Helen Merrill, Valerie Capers, and Bobby Sanabria at the Bronx Rising! Maxine Sullivan Women In Jazz Series: Balkan-Influenced Jazz at the Bronx Music Heritage Center

Postcard with information and images of the ‘Black is Beautiful: A Tribute to Elombe Brath’ exhibit at the Bronx Music Heritage Center curated by Bob Gumbs.

"From this overhead view, you can see the areas of the city about to be wiped away by expressway construction. And you can also observe the powerful impact public housing has already had on the landscape" -The Bowery Boys: New York City History

The photo shows the future site the Bronx Commons as it looked on February 29, 2016, prior to starting construction.

Photo of Melrose Houses, where Bobby Sanabria was raised. The space surrounded the housing projects were often transformed to accommodate neighborhood concerts.

Transcript of an oral history with Bobby Sanabria

Bobby reflects on how the musical culture of the South Bronx kept the community united through periods of social unrest, racial tensions, detrimental policy changes, and widespread drug use.

The graph shows that middle school schools located in the Bronx tend to have a lower access to arts education compared to the other boroughs.

The chart shows that collaborations between schools and cultural centers within communities tends to be lowest among schools in the Bronx with similar rates throughout 2010-2016.

Bobby Sanabria performs for Vic Firth in New York City