Tag Archives: Mott Haven
FreshDirect tells Bronx: We’ll deliver
Posted on 20. May, 2012 by Editor.
Company also starts food stamps pilot program Food delivery giant FreshDirect has announced it will expand service into the Bronx, beginning this week. In addition, the company says it has received government approval to launch a pilot program that for the first time would allow food stamp recipients to use their benefits to order food [...]
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Entrepreneurs start young at M.S. 223
Posted on 17. May, 2012 by By Anika Anand.
A Mott Haven middle school is preparing its students early for life in the complex world of customer service and bottom lines, through a partnership that helps them put their business ideas to work.
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Councilwomen urge state to nix FreshDirect
Posted on 12. May, 2012 by Joe Hirsch.
Mark-Viverito, Arroyo demand an audit on Harlem River Yards Two members of the New York City Council want the State Department of Transportation to reconsider the lease of the land where FreshDirect is planning to build its new headquarters. Melissa Mark-Viverito and Maria del Carmen Arroyo, who represent Mott Haven, have called for a moratorium [...]
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Green Team offers youngsters $8 an hour jobs
Posted on 27. Apr, 2012 by Editor.
Friends of Brook Park is assembling a South Bronx Green Team Collaborative to build a new compost system in Brook Park on East 141st Street and Brook Avenue. Students between 13 and 19 years old who live or go to school in the 10454 or 10455 zip codes are eligible for the summer jobs, which [...]
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Police beat
Posted on 24. Apr, 2012 by Joe Hirsch.
Strip club violence Police from the 40th Precinct are keeping close watch on Sin City. The strip club on Park Ave., tucked between a taxi garage on one side and Metro North tracks and a sprawling community garden on the other, has been the site of multiple incidents of violence and theft in recent months. [...]
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From the editor: Some Bronx hero
Posted on 23. Apr, 2012 by Bernard L. Stein.
Next month, the Bronx Borough President will roll out the red carpet for a Bronx native who has grown successful as a rapper with songs that deman women. Is this really an achievement to celebrate as a symbol of our borough?
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Desperate applicants hope for housing
Posted on 18. Apr, 2012 by Joe Hirsch.
Nearly 200 wait for hours for a shot at a place to live Police from the 41st Precinct were called to the main office of a housing complex on East 163rd Street on April 17th to disperse an angry crowd seeking to apply for apartments in several Section-8 subsidized buildings in Longwood. In a sign [...]
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Fifth South Bronx Earth Fest is coming up
Posted on 09. Apr, 2012 by Editor.
For the fifth year, South Bronx residents will mark Earth Day with a festival in St. Mary’s Park in Mott Haven on Saturday, April 21, from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
The free South Bronx Earth Fest combines family activities with entertainment and environmental exhibits at the park on St. Ann’s Avenue and 146th Street.
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Participatory budgeting votes are in
Posted on 04. Apr, 2012 by By Sean Carlson.
Millbrook Houses in Mott Haven will get long-awaited improvements to its playground on St. Ann’s Avenue, and public housing projects across the neighborhood will receive new tamper-proof security cameras as part of the city’s first-ever participatory budgeting initiative.
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Community board questions FreshDirect deal
Posted on 30. Mar, 2012 by Joe Hirsch.
Worried members say Mott Haven will suffer Community Board 1 condemned the deal to move online grocer FreshDirect from Queens to Port Morris without community consultation after a heated debate at its March meeting. The board passed a resolution authored by board member and activist Mychal Johnson, who charged Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. [...]
