Health center set to expand services
Posted on 21. Sep, 2011 by By Gwen McClure.
A Mott Haven health-care agency has embarked on a major expansion which will bring a full array of services to the neighborhood’s population of homeless and at-risk drug users. CitiWide Harm Reduction, a 16-year-old program housed near a bodega and a diner on 144th Street, will begin construction on the new $400,000 Wellness Center [...]
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Samuel J. Gompers HS gets no help from Dept of Ed
Posted on 21. Sep, 2011 by By Claudia Bracholdt.
Angela Marrero stood outside the entrance of the Samuel Gompers Career and Technical Education High School on Southern Boulevard, looking at the schoolyard through a high chain-link fence. It was the first day of school for her son, a freshman, and the other Gompers students. They stood in a queue in front of [...]
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From Morrisania to Africa, via “Kuwait”
Posted on 21. Sep, 2011 by By Sarah Pizon.
For West African residents in the South Bronx, Kuwait is not just a Middle Eastern country. “Kuwait” is a Ghanaian immigrant whose Morrisania-based business has become the conduit back to their nations of origin. Kuwait Shipping & Packaging , which specializes in transporting items to West African countries, has made it possible for immigrants to [...]
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Bronx Documentary Center opens
Posted on 30. Aug, 2011 by cunyjschool.
The Bronx Documentary Center, a new space for photography and film on Courtlandt Ave in Mott Haven, is open to the public, with free film screenings. This Thursday, Sept. 1, the documentary “Fernando Nation” by director Cruz Angeles from LA will be shown, tracing the career of Dodger pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, who hailed from the [...]
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Bronx hurricane shelters open
Posted on 26. Aug, 2011 by cunyjschool.
With Hurricane Irene barreling up the east coast on a slow but seemingly sure collision course with New York City this weekend, some residents in low-lying areas like Coney Island and the Rockaways are being urged to seek higher ground. Below is a listing of Bronx hurricane shelters where anyone living in an area at [...]
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Cops, residents seek to thaw icy relations
Posted on 24. Aug, 2011 by Kathy Conkwright.
Advocates and police partner at Night Out Against Crime By Kathy Conkwright conkwright@motthavenherald.com The first time Angel Irizarry and Danny Barber met one another six years ago, they butted heads. ”I didn’t really like Danny,” said Irizarry, the community affairs officer for PSA-7, the NYPD branch assigned to patrol public housing complexes in Melrose. “I’m [...]
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Free conflict resolution offered in the Hub
Posted on 23. Aug, 2011 by Matthew J. Perlman.
Eloisa Perez was so worried about her daughter Elisa Vallejo showing up late to class and getting bad grades that she turned to the city’s Administration for Children’s Services for help. “She wasn’t listening to me,” said Perez. “Young people don’t understand about needing an education.” The city agency sent the mother and daughter to [...]
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From the editor: Say no to an incinerator
Posted on 21. Aug, 2011 by Bernard L. Stein.
Twelve years ago, a huge crane pried the stacks off the South Bronx Medical Waste Incinerator on the eastern end of 138th Street where it meets the East River. Hundreds of Bronxites who had protested that it was poisoning the air they breathed cheered as the last incinerator in New York City was dismantled. Now [...]
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Coupons available for veggies and milk
Posted on 16. Aug, 2011 by cunyjschool.
A Department of Health program called New Bucks will provide Mott Haven residents with fresh produce, free milk and cooking demonstrations. Farmer’s Markets are accepting coupons worth $2 each for fresh produce and milk. Two local markets are participating in the city’s Health Bucks program, the Mott Haven Farmer’s Market at 139th St. and St. [...]
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Sen. Diaz says sex education belongs at home
Posted on 11. Aug, 2011 by Bernard L. Stein.
State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. denounced the Bloomberg administration’s plan to revive mandatory sex education in public schools, saying the proposal violated the right of parents to decide what and how to teach their children. “In matters involving intimacy and human sexuality, parents have the right and the responsibility to be the primary educators,” the [...]
