Universal Hip Hop Museum reopens
An exhibit shows the growth of turn tabling and how it paved way for almost all forms of modern music. Photos by Alex Mitchell
BE A VOTER!
OcasioCortez.com/Vote
Three ways to vote in NYC
• VOTE BY MAIL AIL
.
Request your ballot by Oct. 27
Sign, date and mail by Nov. 3
BRONX TIMES REPORTER,34 OCT. 30-NOV. 5, 2020 BTR
VTCNY receive medals
COACH DINKINS
VTC (Velocity Track Club) are
showing signs that they are ready
for the AAU Cross Country National
Championship on December
5th in Tallahassee Fl. On Sunday,
October 18th, we traveled to Holmdel
New Jersey to compete in the
Shore AC Cross Country Series #6.
This was one of the top fi ve hardest
courses which we competed on
in the country. It starts off with approximately
500 meters incline and
have multiple hills afterward. Medals
were awarded to the top 5 athletes
and ribbons to 6th to 10th place
fi nishers.
VTC had 11 athletes participate
and all 11 earned awards. We
were Bless with 10 medals and 1
ribbon. More important, 6 out of
the 11 athletes broke their personal
record. The following athletes
earned awards: Lyon Arhigbu,
Pierce Parker and Talia Dixon took
1st place in their division. Bryce
Hickman, Sachin Ramharak, Kenise
Irish Bramble, Rakae Thomas
and Kenia Irish Bramble took 2nd
place. Romel Barrett took 3rd place,
Justyce Moore took 4th place and
Sania Grant took 6th place. Congratulations
to all athletes!
Velocity Track Club New York is
a 501C3 Non-for profi t. 100% of your
donation will go towards helping
our children. Support your youth,
so they can continue to do great
things!
Thank you
• VOTE EARLY Y &
IN-PERSON .
Select polling sites
are open from
Oct. 24 - Nov. 1
• VOTE ON
ELECTION DAY AY
.
Tuesday, Nov. 3
3
Polls open
at 6 AM
Paid for by Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez for Congress
BY ALEX MITCHELL
One of the boogie
down Bronx’s coolest attractions
will be reopen
with a fresh gallery come
Thursday, Nov. 5.
The Universal Hip Hop Museum
in the Bronx Terminal
Market is back and safer than
ever with its newest exhibit on
the emergence of early 1980s
hip hop along with some modern
technology which will
screen guests’ health status
upon entry.
It was this era of the genre
which acted as “the fuse that
ignited the explosion,” of
hip-hop’s worldwide status,”
UHHM Chairman Rocky Bucano
told the Bronx Times
while reminiscing on his
times spent DJing in the Bronx
at clubs like Stardust Room on
Boston and Gun Hill Roads in
the northeast Bronx.
“Those were the years
when hip-hop became a commercial
product,” he said.
Bucano noted the music’s
popular growth from local
“park jams” and small
clubs to mass-produced records
being featured on TV
and in movies on a more national
scale for the fi rst time
since its 1973 inception in the
south Bronx.
“It came right here from
here…you can’t get this experience
anywhere else, only
in the Bronx, the home of
hip-hop” Bucano said about
his exhibit.
He continued to explain
how hip-hop’s “pillars” of
DJing, breakdancing and
aerosol graffi ti art created
such an iconic culture —
much of which will be on display
in November.
“They’re going to see it,
a little bit of everything…
they’ll see the artifacts of that
time period,” Bucano said.
/Vote
