Bronx museum offers free admission, school programs
The Bronx Museum of the Arts has begun offering free admission at all times, to expand access to more visitors and to help ring in the museum’s 40th anniversary.
Street renamed for Naiesha Pearson
Residents and officials commemorate slain child The corner of E. 139th St. and Brook Avenue in Mott Haven was renamed Naiesha Pearson Place on March 31st, in memory of the…
Community board questions FreshDirect deal
Worried members say Mott Haven will suffer Community Board 1 condemned the deal to move online grocer FreshDirect from Queens to Port Morris without community consultation after a heated debate…
Council members demonstrate for Trayvon Martin
Members of the New York City Council donned hoodies in a show of solidarity with slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin, in a demonstration on the steps of City Hall organized…
Mott Haven street to be renamed for Naiesha Pearson
Brook Ave. and 139th St. in Mott Haven will be renamed for Naiesha Pearson, the 10-year-old girl who was killed by a stray bullet in September 2005 while attending a…
FreshDirect protesters take their beef to Manhattan
Opponents of company’s move to Mott Haven seek broad support for boycott Over a dozen South Bronx activists took their protest against FreshDirect to the Upper West Side on March…
Housing Authority tenants do their own repairs
Across the city, NYCHA tenants have decided to take repairs into their own hands, as the authority staggers under a massive backlog. Among its 178,000 apartments, more than 700,000 work…
For Gompers, it’s game over
Melrose is going to lose what used to be its largest high school. Four weeks after the Department of Education’s Panel for Educational Policy finally decided to let Samuel Gompers…