Gompers High School faces possible closure
Posted on 13. Dec, 2011 by By Claudia Bracholdt.
The Melrose high school is on the city’s hit list The Samuel Gompers Career and Technical Education High School could start phasing-out next school year, one of 25 schools the city’s Department of Education is intending to close or shake up due to poor performance. The school’s administration and the students were notified in early [...]
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Gilberto Rivera, tireless advocate, dies at 75
Posted on 08. Dec, 2011 by By Joe Hirsch.
Activist fought to save Hostos and improve housing Gilberto Rivera, one of the co-founders of the Melrose-based housing organization Nos Quedamos, died on Nov. 25. He was 75. Rivera, who had been president of Nos Quedamos’ board, suffered a massive stroke shortly after a board meeting at the Nos Quedamos office on Melrose Ave. on [...]
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Police Council hears protest of Occupy arrests
Posted on 08. Dec, 2011 by Bernard L. Stein.
Heated meeting dissolves in shouting Outraged by the arrest of five people at their general assembly in Mott Haven, supporters of Occupy the Bronx took their protest to the 40th Precinct Community Council. They left frustrated. Most of the 60 or so people who jammed a small conference room at Lincoln Hospital on Dec. 7 [...]
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Public housing tenants team up against waste
Posted on 07. Dec, 2011 by By Elizabeth Chen.
They say they have to because officials aren’t following through Mott Haven Houses’ resident Brigitte Vincenty doesn’t want to go all the way into Manhattan to make sure her trash gets recycled. So she and her neighbors are taking on the challenge of recycling their community’s trash, which they say the New York City Housing [...]
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Angry residents say ‘nobody told us’
Posted on 05. Dec, 2011 by By Gwen McClure.
Group battling home for mentally ill says residents were blindsided The developer of a controversial housing development set to break ground in Mott Haven notified local politicians of the organization’s plans nearly a year ago, according to a document he released this week. But neighborhood residents fighting the project say they didn’t find out about [...]
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Bronx boxing gym battles redevelopment TKO
Posted on 05. Dec, 2011 by By Evan Buxbaum.
Urban renewal threatens a gritty Westchester Ave. gym to move…or close Facing eviction, the owner of an iconic South Bronx boxing gym is vowing to fight on. Located on the ground floor of a shabby former post office building across the street from an overgrown field, John’s Boxing Gym – known for years as Jerome’s [...]
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Cops break up Occupy the Bronx rally
Posted on 04. Dec, 2011 by By Elizabeth Chen.
Police arrested five people at the Occupy the Bronx general assembly in Mott Haven Saturday, preempting the organization’s plans to hold a rally and “festival” in a community garden fenced-off by the city in mid-November. It was the first time police had moved on the borough’s arm of Occupy Wall Street since it began holding weekly meeings in October.
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Gardeners occupy community board
Posted on 25. Nov, 2011 by Elizabeth Chen.
Activists invaded Community Board 1’s office on Monday, using Occupy Wall Street tactics to protest the city’s eviction of the Morning Glory Community Garden at Southern Boulevard and Union Avenue. They demanded to speak to District Manager Cedric Loftin, and when they were told he wasn’t there refused to leave. Instead, they recited their grievances [...]
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Church worries about pantry’s future
Posted on 14. Nov, 2011 by ftelegrafi.
Since 1994, Give Them to Eat Ministries has been feeding hundreds of needy people each week. The need is growing, but the funds are shrinking.
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Farm Share offers winter produce
Posted on 14. Nov, 2011 by Bernard L. Stein.
For the first time, the Corbin Hill Farm Share will deliver fruit and vegetables from upstate New York farms to Mott Haven and Melrose in winter. From December through April, those who subscribe to the farm share program will get monthly deliveries, making Corbin Hill the first year-round supplier of local produce with a specific [...]
