Archive for 'Government'
FreshDirect tells Bronx: We’ll deliver
Posted on 20. May, 2012 by Editor.
Company also starts food stamps pilot program Food delivery giant FreshDirect has announced it will expand service into the Bronx, beginning this week. In addition, the company says it has received government approval to launch a pilot program that for the first time would allow food stamp recipients to use their benefits to order food [...]
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Councilwomen urge state to nix FreshDirect
Posted on 12. May, 2012 by Joe Hirsch.
Mark-Viverito, Arroyo demand an audit on Harlem River Yards Two members of the New York City Council want the State Department of Transportation to reconsider the lease of the land where FreshDirect is planning to build its new headquarters. Melissa Mark-Viverito and Maria del Carmen Arroyo, who represent Mott Haven, have called for a moratorium [...]
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From the editor: Some Bronx hero
Posted on 23. Apr, 2012 by Bernard L. Stein.
Next month, the Bronx Borough President will roll out the red carpet for a Bronx native who has grown successful as a rapper with songs that deman women. Is this really an achievement to celebrate as a symbol of our borough?
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Participatory budgeting votes are in
Posted on 04. Apr, 2012 by By Sean Carlson.
Millbrook Houses in Mott Haven will get long-awaited improvements to its playground on St. Ann’s Avenue, and public housing projects across the neighborhood will receive new tamper-proof security cameras as part of the city’s first-ever participatory budgeting initiative.
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Street renamed for Naiesha Pearson
Posted on 02. Apr, 2012 by Joe Hirsch.
Residents and officials commemorate slain child The corner of E. 139th St. and Brook Avenue in Mott Haven was renamed Naiesha Pearson Place on March 31st, in memory of the ten-year-old girl whose death shook the community when she was struck by a stray bullet in September 2005. Some 100 family, friends, residents and elected officials [...]
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Community board questions FreshDirect deal
Posted on 30. Mar, 2012 by Joe Hirsch.
Worried members say Mott Haven will suffer Community Board 1 condemned the deal to move online grocer FreshDirect from Queens to Port Morris without community consultation after a heated debate at its March meeting. The board passed a resolution authored by board member and activist Mychal Johnson, who charged Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. [...]
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FreshDirect protesters take their beef to Manhattan
Posted on 22. Mar, 2012 by By Alex Robinson.
Opponents of company’s move to Mott Haven seek broad support for boycott Over a dozen South Bronx activists took their protest against FreshDirect to the Upper West Side on March 21st, urging Manhattanites to join them in a citywide boycott of the online grocer.
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Housing Authority tenants do their own repairs
Posted on 17. Mar, 2012 by By Flonia Telegfrafi and Sarah Grile.
Across the city, NYCHA tenants have decided to take repairs into their own hands, as the authority staggers under a massive backlog. Among its 178,000 apartments, more than 700,000 work orders await completion and another 300,000 are in the pipeline. Leaks, cracked walls, rodent infestations, broken cabinets and appliances and other deterioration demand the constant attention of work crews.
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Participatory budgeting set for March vote
Posted on 01. Mar, 2012 by By Alex Robinson.
Ray Figueroa would like to see a solar-powered greenhouse at Millbrook Houses in Mott Haven, with a farmer’s market that would be run by young people from the neighborhood. Some want designated barbecue areas, while others want the streetlights fixed. These were among dozens of initiatives Mott Haven residents serving as volunteer budget delegates presented at [...]
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City plans tall buildings on former garden site
Posted on 17. Feb, 2012 by Joe Hirsch.
The city has decided to build a massive, three-building complex at the intersection of Southern Boulevard and Union Avenue and E. 149th St., where the eviction of the Morning Glory community garden in November led to the arrest of four protesters and a journalist.
