Neighborhood voices: Urban farming NYC
Check out this video about the growing movement in the South Bronx and beyond! Featured in the video are The Point CDC, Bissel Gardens, Friends of Brook Park, Part of…
Bronx River Alliance to honor Herald editor
The Bronx River Alliance will honor the editor of the Mott Haven Herald at its annual benefit at Hunts Point Riverside Park on Thursday, Sept. 24. The award will recognize…
Manhattan nonprofit looks to bring jobs to Mott Haven
Jeanmarie Evelly jeanmarie.evelly@motthavenherald.com A nonprofit with its roots in Manhattan and branches throughout the city has set its sights on the South Bronx, with hopes of bringing jobs to the…
Artists fret as tourists beat a path to their studios
Will notice force Mott Haven rents up and them out? By Azriel James Relph Azriel.james.relph@gmail.com “Ask about my art, not my rent” reads the sign posted at the door to…
Port Morris wasteland dreams of green
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…
Whose South Bronx Greenway is it anyway?
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…
Rats plague seniors in Betances Houses
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…
Trees talk on the Grand Concourse
By Jeanmarie Evelly jeanmarie.evelly@motthavenherald.com The Grand Concourse, the iconic boulevard that stretches along four miles of the Bronx, has 100 years of stories to tell. This summer and fall, Bronx…