From the editor: a dysfunctional community board
Community Board 1 left residents frustrated when it abruptly adjourned a meeting in June about FreshDirect. Last year, when the Harlem River Working Group held a series of well-publicized and...
View ArticleMark-Viverito wins re-election
Natalie AbruzzoMelissa Mark-Viverito listens to a constituent at Lounge 108 in East Harlem during the primary election campaign results party. Much bigger part of Mott Haven now in the district...
View ArticleHundreds mark Mexican Independence Day
Natalie FertigSevero Garcia, 24, Anabel Galvez, 23, and sons Richard Perez, 5 and Daniel Garcia, 1, were among the 500 people who attended the First Annual Mott Haven Independence Day Festival. Street...
View ArticleConstruction starts on new supermarket
Triangle EquitiesArchitects rendering of the new complex. Triangle Plaza Hub will replace parking lot A new supermarket will be built near the Hub as part of a new development that will replace the...
View ArticleArtists add color to two Bronx neighborhoods
Photo courtesy of Martin Papcun and CEC Arts Link. Artist Martin Papcun used photos and mirrors to bring a sense of Puerto Rico to a private home in Mott Haven. Mott Haven home, Hunts Point bridge get...
View ArticleHealth care fight traps diabetes program
Prevention effort is ready to begin, but funding is frozen Health PeopleDiabetes prevention coaches and the people who trained them. Back row: l. to r., Patricia Nelson, Delores Graham, Rev. Michel...
View ArticleGroup tells businesses: Stop dumping on Bronx
Jenna O'DonnellA coalition of environmentalists and citizens rallied at City Hall on Oct. 2 to urge elected officials to rethink the city’s commercial trash policy. Coalition says Mott Haven takes too...
View ArticleCouncilwoman enters leadership race
Steven TraderCouncilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito at her victory party on Election Night After big win for ‘progressives,’ Mark-Viverito declares Mott Haven Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito cruised to...
View ArticleVoters stay home in record numbers
Local turnout plummets once again While Bill de Blasio celebrated what many called a historic victory in the race to succeed Michael Bloomberg as mayor, another kind of history was being made as well:...
View ArticleGroup targets violence at its root
Kayle HopeHakiem Yahmadi of S.O.S. South Bronx indicates the area the anti-violence initiative is expanding to cover. Year-old initiative patterned after acclaimed Chicago model S.O.S. (Save Our...
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