Green jobs, green city: a special report
The economy may be recovering, but you wouldn’t know it in Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris, where, officially, one of every five adults is unemployed, a number that overlooks…
Mott Haven students learn hurricane’s lessons
Students travel to New Orleans, reflect on the South Bronx While most of their classmates slept in and hung out during their week-long spring break from Mott Haven Village Preparatory…
Will city pull plug on help for Port Morris business?
Manufacturers worry about budget cuts for industrial zones The city is moving to eliminate funds for a program to help manufacturing businesses in Port Morris, leaving their proprietors worried that…
Proposed budget cuts threaten adult education
Pending cuts to the city’s budget threaten to derail long-running adult literacy programs across the five boroughs, taking some of Gotham’s poorest down with them, advocates fear. The Mayor’s proposed…
Homeless advocacy group holds rally in Brook Park
The city should be moving people out of homeless shelters and into vacant apartments built during the real estate boom that now stand empty, advocates from the community organization Picture…
Listen up soldier—you’re in the Cadets now
Outside the Betances Community Center on St. Ann’s Avenue and East 146th Street, 20 or so young men and women wearing Army fatigues scrambled to form straight lines, then raised…
Marchers call for end to gun violence
Mott Haven residents lead effort to stop the bleeding As she sat on her aunt’s lap, tears streamed down five-year-old Maryliz Romero’s face as she thought of her uncle, whose…
Mott Haven’s money isn’t in banks
City launches “Safe Start” account to help underbanked New Yorkers On a recent Saturday afternoon, Leo Lendy, a 21-year-old Mott Haven resident, walked out of the Pay-O-Matic on 149th Street…