Tag Archives: Betances Community Center
From the editor: Sonia from the Bronx
Posted on 01. Nov, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.
The children were acting up as only excited children can. They bounced; they clambered over one another; their din filled the Lovinger Theater at Lehman College. Their excitement was understandable. After all, they had just met a justice of the United States Supreme Court. And not just any justice. They had met the first Puerto [...]
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In the News, Sept 7-Sept 17
Posted on 12. Sep, 2010 by Joe Hirsch.
A number of non-profits around the city are trying to make sure Bridges Juvenile Justice Center—otherwise known as Spofford—will not be turned back into a jail after it is decommissioned this fall. The Correctional Association and the Children’s Defense Fund will help organize a meeting of community members at the Betances Community Center at the [...]
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In the news, July 12-18
Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.
A new initiative hopes to bring the Bronx into the Internet age, providing high speed Internet access to 400,000 households in the borough. The Bronx lags the other boroughs in broadband access to the web, and poor neighborhoods lag wealthier ones. Only 58 percent of Bronx residents have a computer at home compared to more [...]
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Listen up soldier—you’re in the Cadets now
Posted on 22. May, 2010 by Hannah Rappleye.
Outside the Betances Community Center on St. Ann’s Avenue and East 146th Street, 20 or so young men and women wearing Army fatigues scrambled to form straight lines, then raised their chins and clasped their hands behind their backs. Eric Rodrieguez stood at the front of one of the lines. He is only 12 years [...]
