Author: Syed Haq

Despite the relief many South Bronxites are feeling after President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, a local group believes defunding the police and protecting undocumented immigrants will remain a concern, even under…

Environmental justice coalition successfully pressures New York Power Authority to  phase out ‘peaker’ plants When the New York Power Authority (NYPA) first received approval in 2001 to build six natural-gas…

South Bronx residents should expect access to Pfizer’s free COVID-19 vaccine by mid- or late-spring 2021, according to Bronx Community Board 1. At Board 1’s Zoom meeting on Thursday, Dec.…

NYCHA CEO  gets razzed over Blueprint for Change Residents, politicians and union workers responded angrily to the New York City Housing Authority’s controversial Blueprint for Change at a publicly Zoomed…

A previous Teach for America fellow, Ariadna Phillips has been an educator in the Bronx for several years. In March, Phillips began to notice that several of her students were…

Daniel Zauderer, 31, a 6th grade humanities teacher at the American Dream School, spent most of a recent evening trying to find transportation for an extra half pallet of produce…

At a recent virtual book talk held over Zoom, Colombian-American poet Carlos Andrés Gómez called his debut full-length book of poetry, Fractures “very New York.” Several of the more than…

Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernandez wants to see a healthier and safer Bronx under a Joe Biden presidency. She hopes that the voters of the Bronx will see her as their best…