Fare-free rides may end for TECO Line Streetcar
With a Florida Department of Transportation grant expiring, free rides on the TECO Line Streetcar may soon be coming to an end.
Ybor City
Perhaps Tampa’s best-known neighborhood, Ybor City chronicles the history of Tampa’s (and arguable Florida’s) immigrant experience and the local journey along the country’s economic roller coaster ride. “Founded in 1886 by Vicente Martinez Ybor, Ybor City became ‘the cigar capital of the world’ by 1900,’’ boasts the City of Tampa’s website. A thriving hub of tobacco manufacturing, it soon became home to a growing working class of immigrants from Spain and Cuba and Italy, as well as from Germany, Eastern Europe and China as entrepreneurs, restauranteurs and shopkeepers arrived to meet a growing community’s needs. That thriving pool of diverse talent created a living environment rich with an abundance of talent and innovation in architecture, dining, entertainment, social and civic organizations, housing and health care. It’s that image of American success and not the ups and downs in between that developers see today in their vision for the future of Ybor City as an attractive hub of live, work, play and stay spaces for creatives, artists, techies, foodies, designers, educators and innovators connecting Tampa’s Downtown, Port Tampa Bay and neighborhoods to the north and east.
November arts: SHINE Mural Festival, Ybor Arts Tour, Afrofuturism Festival
The November arts scene in Tampa Bay has the rescheduled St. Petersburg Shine Mural Festival and Ybor Arts Tour, plus the Tampa Bay Afrofuturism Festival and more.
Children’s Board of Hillsborough County, Rebuilding Together Tampa Bay team up on hurricane relief
As the community recovers in the aftermath of Helene and Milton, Rebuilding Together Tampa Bay and the Children's Board of Hillsborough County partner on a community relief event that distributes food, water and supplies for 500 families.
Safe Streets Week: Making roads safer for pedestrians, bicyclists
Plan Hillsborough, Walk Bike Tampa and other community partners have organized Safe Streets Week to work for solutions that address the significant community issue of pedestrian and bicyclist safety.
October arts roundup: Ybor Arts Tour, 10th anniversary SHINE Mural Festival
The October arts scene in Tampa Bay has the fall Ybor Arts Tour and the 10th anniversary of the SHINE Mural Festival
Kitchen Table Literary Arts: Set up right for a decade
Nonprofit Kitchen Table Literary Arts celebrates a decade of promoting the prose and poetry of Black women and women of color and helping them blossom and flourish as writers.
Ybor’s La Segunda Central Bakery: 110 years of “pride, history, tradition, love”
Ybor City's La Segunda Central Bakery has been making Cuban bread the same way for 110 years. Now in its fourth generation of family ownership, the Tampa institution turns out 18,000 to 22,000 loaves a day.
Photo story: Tampa’s World Car-Free Day
Photos from the second annual Tampa World Car-Free Day, a bike ride to a block party that promotes transportation options.
Bike, walk, scoot or skate to Tampa’s World Car-Free Day
After a successful debut in 2023, Tampa's World Car-Free Day returns with a larger event and the same mission, promoting the benefits of transportation options.
Step back in time with “Tony Pizzo’s Tampa”
Tony Pizzo was a Tampa history buff who became Tampa's history teacher. Thirty years after his death, USF has digitized his old TV show, "Tony Pizzo's Tampa" and celebrates his legacy with an upcoming event in Ybor
