Archive for 'Work'
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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Can $4 million paint Mott Haven green?
Posted on 06. Jun, 2010 by Nicholas Loomis.
Federal funds aim to build on grassroots training programs Chances are you’ve heard it all before. New York’s 16th Congressional District, which includes Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris, is the poorest in the country. The Bronx has the highest unemployment rate in New York at 14.1%, and unemployment is worse still in the South [...]
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Workers learn by doing in Project H.I.R.E.
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by Carla Candia.
College for construction crew teaches green building A brand-new duplex apartment in the University Heights section of the Bronx is ready for inspection. Equipped with bamboo floors, a ceramic kitchen and a spacious bedroom closet that would make more than one New Yorker jealous, it would rent for at least $2,000. Instead it will be [...]
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Mott Haven co-op preaches gospel of reuse
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by Vishal Persaud.
ReBuilder’s Source offers new life to building materials and ex-prisoners Sounds of power sanders filled the warehouse of ReBuilder’s Source on Timpson Place on a recent afternoon. They didn’t buzz, they boomed. Six people were at work, two or three times the usual staff at the worker-owned cooperative. ReBuilder’s Source didn’t hire more workers. It [...]
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A Mott Haven bridge to the information highway
Posted on 10. May, 2010 by Vishal Persaud.
Classes connect residents to jobs and family on-line By Vishal Persaud persaud@mottthavenherald.com Hunched over a keyboard in the second row of a computer lab at the Phipps Opportunity Center in Melrose, Ricardo Avillan, 51, chats with his grandsons in Puerto Rico on Facebook. Avillan began making the trek across the 145th Street Bridge from East [...]
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Grant promises unemployed 300 'green jobs'
Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.
The recipient of a $4 million federal grant is promising that 300 unemployed residents of Hunts Point, Longwood, Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris will find jobs under a new training program for “green” jobs. The Consortium for Worker Education will use the money to establish a Center for Environmental Workforce Training to teach both [...]
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Mott Haven job programs offer hope
Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Joe Hirsch.
Two programs to help residents find jobs received hopeful news in January. The Disconnected Youth Training Program and the Entrepreneurial Development Program, both run by Mott Haven based non-profit SoBRO, each received funding to help economically strapped local residents improve their prospects for earning a living wage.
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Searching for work on a Mott Haven street corner
Posted on 28. Nov, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.
As the economy sputters, immigrants wait in vain at ‘La Parada’ By Carla Candia carla.candia@journalism.cuny.edu Dozens of day laborers dressed in ripped jeans and worn t-shirts stood on the corner of East 141st Street and Jackson Avenue in the Bronx one morning this Fall. The wind was blowing, and many workers wore sweaters and had [...]
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New mall threatens Mott Haven businesses
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by Jeanmarie Evelly.
By Jeanmarie Evelly Jeanmarie.evelly@motthavenherald.com Third Avenue and 149th street would be the heart of many cities’ downtown. Shoppers crowd its sidewalks. But many storeowners are worried that the Hub—as the neighborhood is known because its four streets intersect to resemble the hub of a wheel—will not remain the retail heart of the South Bronx. They’re [...]
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Mott Haven merchants are singing the blues
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.
The recession is hurting business everywhere, but small businesses in Mott Haven have been especially hard hit.
