Tag Archives: Hunts Point
From the editor: Occupy the Bronx
Posted on 18. Oct, 2011 by Bernard L. Stein.
“The Bronx is in the house,” thundered 60 or 70 people last Saturday afternoon as they marched into a public square in lower Manhattan. The chant announced their presence to more than a thousand demonstrators already assembled in Zuccotti Park to protest against corporate greed and a government that serves business and the wealthy at [...]
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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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Bronx streetscapes take center stage in new exhibition
Posted on 02. Aug, 2011 by Matthew J. Perlman.
Emilio Sanchez made his first trek down Hunts Point’s Food Center Drive in 1988, when he was 67, to an art gallery in the caverns of the Krasdale Foods complex where his art was being shown. His friend Sig Balka, general attorney for Krasdale and art connoisseur, was showing Sanchez’s work in the gallery [...]
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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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Whose South Bronx Greenway is it anyway?
Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Sarah Trefethen.
A number of Mott Haven community leaders are complaining that they have been left out of planning the South Bronx Greenway’s future.
At stake, they argue, is not only recreation but jobs.
