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…
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…
Mott Haven march denounces gun violence
By Joe Hirsch news@motthavenherald.com Naisha Pearson was just 10 years old when she was gunned downed in Saw Mill Park on East 139th Street. She was playing at a Labor…
Feds charge Arroyo kin with embezzlement
Housing money paid for politicians’ trips, says complaint Taxpayer funds intended for two low-income housing projects in Mott Haven paid for trips to Puerto Rico for Councilwoman Maria del Carmen…
Buy-back takes an arsenal off Bronx streets
By Azriel James Relph azriel.james.relph@gmail.com When you subtract nearly a thousand guns from the arsenals of residents, what do you get? Safer Bronx streets, say the organizers of the Fourth…
Lawsuit seeks to block Randall's Island deal
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…