Tag Archives: South Bronx Greenway
FreshDirect makes new promises to Bronx
Posted on 14. Feb, 2012 by Editor.
Responding to intense criticism from South Bronx residents and organizations over the deal to subsidize a new facility in Port Morris for FreshDirect, the online grocer has promised to seek out Bronx residents for new jobs, to expand its service to the Bronx and to build a non-polluting fleet of delivery trucks.
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Mott Havenites say ‘no deal’ to FreshDirect
Posted on 10. Feb, 2012 by By Amora McDaniel.
Arguing that huge city and state subsidies would increase air pollution and disrupt the South Bronx Greenway while bringing few benefits to South Bronx residents, Mott Haven activists asked a public hearing to scuttle the deal to create a new headquarters in Port Morris for the online grocer FreshDirect.
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Earth Fest reaches out with music and games
Posted on 12. May, 2010 by Nicholas Loomis.
The Bronx throws a party for Earth Day’s 40th birthday Legendary emcee Grandmaster Caz has been packing parties in the South Bronx since 1974, but none quite like the one at St. Mary’s Park in Mott Haven for this year’s Earth Day on April 24. . Soundslide by Nick Loomis By noon on the [...]
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Port Morris wasteland dreams of green
Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Sarah Trefethen.
The industrial area at the borough’s southernmost tip is a place of trucks, factories and fumes, with little to offer humans who travel by foot or by bike, or want to sit a spell. But the proposed South Bronx Greenway could bring tree-lined paths and waterfront parks to Port Morris’ lifeless streets.
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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.
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Federal stimulus funds will open Randall’s Island to Bronxites
Posted on 26. May, 2009 by Lindsay Lazarski.
But a controversial proposal could keep playing fields off-limits By Lindsay Lazarski lindsay.lazarski@motthavenherald.com Elected officials and the Parks Department describe Randall’s Island as an invaluable resource, and boast that its waterfront pathways provide scenic views and “increased access” to recreation “for the neighboring communities of East Harlem and the South Bronx.” But the island, only [...]
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Lawsuit seeks to block Randall's Island deal
Posted on 26. May, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.
Several South Bronx and East Harlem organizations and residents filed suit on May 27 in an effort to keep the city from carrying out its plan to reserve most of the ball fields on Randall’s Island for Manhattan private schools on school-day afternoons. The suit charges that the New York City Department of Parks & [...]
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Friends of Brook Park says ‘Draw us in’
Posted on 20. Apr, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.
An organization that has long crusaded for a waterfront park at the end of Park Avenue is calling on the city to make its creation possible by redrawing the boundaries of its blueprint for the Lower Grand Concourse. All that is required is moving the southern boundary “a mere 100 feet to the South along [...]
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South Bronx Greenway will open waterfront
Posted on 12. Apr, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.
A plan to build a recreational trail connecting a series of parks on the East River waterfront has gotten a major boost from the economic downturn. Federal stimulus money will be used to build the South Bronx Greenway and open it to the public within three years, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in March. The greenway [...]
