Tag Archives: NYC Housing Authority
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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‘Put down your guns,’ youth group pleads
Posted on 03. Jun, 2011 by Kathy Conkwright.
Mott Haven organization works to curb growing violence Danny Barber has been warned that people are out to kill him because he’s trying to keep young people from a life of crime and violence. Gang members have targeted him because he helped bring a program called LIFE Camp to the Bronx, he says. They believe [...]
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Two who work to make a difference
Posted on 16. Dec, 2010 by Stephanie Rabins.
Neighborhood leadership takes many forms. From organizing farmers’ markets to advocating tenants’ rights, Mott Haven has many residents who work hard to make the their neighborhood a better place to live.
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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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Mott Haven flunks Recycling 101
Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Sergey Kadinsky.
Housing Authority facilities make recycling difficult Glass, metals, apple cores: It’s all the same to Mott Haven residents, according to a report published in the Daily News on Oct. 4. Citing confusion and lack of space for recycling, the report, based on Sanitation Department figures, pegs the recycling rate for Mott Haven, Port Morris, and [...]
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Rats plague seniors in Betances Houses
Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Lindsay Lazarski.
Tenants complain that they live in ‘The stinkiest building in New York” and say the Housing Authority makes things worse By Lindsay Lazarski lindsay.lazarski@motthavenherald.com For months, residents of the Betances Houses building set aside for senior citizens heard the sound of claws scratching as rats scurried back and forth in the crawl space overhead at night. [...]
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Mott Haven community center is reborn
Posted on 24. Mar, 2009 by Lindsay Lazarski.
Critics mourn an end to boxing at Betances By Lindsay Lazarski Lindsay.lazarski@motthavenherald.com For years the thumping of fists pounding punching bags, the scuffle of sneakers and the grunts of athletes were the sounds a visitor heard at the Betances Community Center and Boxing Gym. Now, the scratch of pencils and flip of workbook pages fill [...]
