Archive for 'Politics'
Mott Haven immigration festival mixes culture and politics
Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by Joe Hirsch.
Immigrants and U.S. citizens filled Brook Park on July 24, defying record heat to celebrate Latin American heritage and to voice their anger over Arizona’s controversial law aimed at finding and punishing undocumented immigrants. At the second annual Festival of Immigrants in the South Bronx’s biggest community garden between 140th and 141st Streets on Brook [...]
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Debate over future of Sheridan rages on
Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by Joe Hirsch.
While advocates in Hunts Point continue to battle to get the Sheridan Expressway torn down, a Mott Haven-based community organization is warning that traffic will pile up on the Major Deegan Expressway if the 1.3–mile-long highway connecting the Cross Bronx and the Bruckner expressways is demolished.
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In the news, July 26-August 1
Posted on 26. Jul, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.
Beginning a string of three homicides in seven days, 18-year-old Troynisha Harris was killed by a man who jumped from a Lincoln Town Car and plunged a knife into her neck on July 24. Harris and a friend were sitting on a stoop on 166th Street at 3:30 a.m. when the attacker struck. When Harris’s [...]
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In the news, June 21-28
Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.
A Book Fair on the sidewalk in front of the Bronx Museum on the Grand Concourse at 165th Street this weekend has been organized to call attention to the absence of bookstores in the Bronx. The fair, on Sunday, June 27, from noon-5 p.m., will feature books, magazines and comics, along with authors and artists. [...]
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Green jobs, green city: a special report
Posted on 06. Jun, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.
The economy may be recovering, but you wouldn’t know it in Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris, where, officially, one of every five adults is unemployed, a number that overlooks many undocumented immigrants and ignores those who have given up on looking for work or taken part-time jobs because they can’t find full-time employment. But [...]
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Proposed budget cuts threaten adult education
Posted on 27. May, 2010 by Joe Hirsch.
Pending cuts to the city’s budget threaten to derail long-running adult literacy programs across the five boroughs, taking some of Gotham’s poorest down with them, advocates fear. The Mayor’s proposed budget for 2011 would eliminate over $5 million in funding for adult literacy services, which if combined with the Governor’s proposed $2.6 million reduction, would [...]
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Homeless advocacy group holds rally in Brook Park
Posted on 27. May, 2010 by Joe Hirsch.
The city should be moving people out of homeless shelters and into vacant apartments built during the real estate boom that now stand empty, advocates from the community organization Picture the Homeless said at a rally in Brook Park on May 19. The Morris Avenue-based group chose the anniversary of Malcolm X’s birthday to hold [...]
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Earth Fest reaches out with music and games
Posted on 12. May, 2010 by Nicholas Loomis.
The Bronx throws a party for Earth Day’s 40th birthday Legendary emcee Grandmaster Caz has been packing parties in the South Bronx since 1974, but none quite like the one at St. Mary’s Park in Mott Haven for this year’s Earth Day on April 24. . Soundslide by Nick Loomis By noon on the [...]
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South Bronx Action Group says "We’re still here"
Posted on 15. Apr, 2010 by Juan De Jesus.
For 40 years the South Bronx Action group helped tenants who lived in Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris. Then in February, the organization lost its home. Forced by cuts to its funding from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to leave the offices on East 149th Street where its staff had counseled tenants on housing and citizenship issues, South Bronx Action did what many individuals do—it moved in with a relative. It now shares quarters with Nos Quedamos on Melrose Avenue and East 156th Street, bringing together two social service agencies of long standing.
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Politicians’ kin admits to embezzlement
Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.
Arroyos benefited from theft from low-income housing The head of a Bronx non-profit has admitted that he embezzled $115,000 intended to help low-income tenants and funneled some of the money to Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, his grandmother, and Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo, his aunt. Richard Izquierdo Arroyo, pleaded guilty in federal court on March 12, [...]
