Tag Archives: Mott Haven
Community budgeting nears decision time
Posted on 11. Jan, 2012 by By Alex Robinson.
Delegates study proposals, will select projects to fund Residents are eager to know how their decisions will impact the spending of $1 million in tax revenue this winter in Mott Haven and Melrose. Last fall, City Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito announced her constituents would be able to decide how the money should be spent, as part [...]
Continue Reading
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 [...]
Continue Reading
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 [...]
Continue Reading
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.
Continue Reading
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 [...]
Continue Reading
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.
Continue Reading
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 [...]
Continue Reading
Homeowners fight proposed housing facility
Posted on 03. Nov, 2011 by By Gwen McClure.
A group of Mott Haven residents has organized to protest a proposed housing development for the mentally ill, saying the neighborhood already has far more than its fair share of social service agencies. The group, called Voices of the People, is frustrated with the influx of social service programs, and adds they were given no [...]
Continue Reading
Local residents join Wall Street protest
Posted on 20. Oct, 2011 by By Alex Robinson.
A large crowd of people gathered at Fordham Plaza on Saturday to participate in the second weekly meeting of the Bronx’s own contingent of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
Bronxites came together to join the global conversation that was started by a few hundred protesters in Zuccotti Park, a block-square plaza in Manhattan’s financial district, a month ago.
Continue Reading
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 [...]
