Bronx Community Pride Center closes
The Bronx Community Pride Center, the borough's biggest LGBT resource center, which moved to Longwood last year after 14 years in Mott Haven, is closing due to financial problems.
Group wants city to toughen waterfront plan
An environmental advocacy group is asking community boards in Mott Haven and other low-income, waterfront neighborhoods across the city to press officials to get tougher on polluters, and to consider…
Incinerators will foul the air, activists warn
Advocates and residents say the South Bronx continues to take a disproportionate amount of the city's garbage, because the mayor has not yet followed through on proposals to build waste…
Students use artistic muse to send message
Middle schoolers from MS 219X used school lunch tables as their canvases, to paint and draw depictions of issues that affect their communities, such as teenage pregnancy, gangs and violence,…
Environmentalists honor Herald editor
The Bronx Council for Environmental Quality honored the Mott Haven Herald’s editor with its annual Helen C. Reel ”Keeping it Reel” award for an outstanding educator on June 13. The…
Feds bust up Moore House gang
The feds have broken up a gang based at the Moore Houses in Mott Haven. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced the indictment of 21 members and associates of the MurderMoore…
Mott Haven residents sue FreshDirect
Suit asks judge to order a new environmental study A lawsuit filed by a public interest law firm on behalf of several Mott Haven residents says the city pushed through…
New push to Harlem River shore begins
The vision of a reborn connection between the Harlem River and the Bronx communities nearby was sketched at a forum at the Bronx Museum on June 11 that marked the…