Candidate Chantel Jackson heavily favored for Assembly seat
On Nov. 3rd Bronx Assembly District 79, Mott Haven, Concourse, High Bridge, and Melrose, will be voting for a new Assembly member to take over Assemblyman Michael Blake’s seat. The…
Group calls for community land ownership in new report
A new blueprint for community development in the South Bronx posits that local residents are best equipped to mastermind the kind of changes their neighborhoods need to prosper. Melrose-based Nos…
Running groups make a quarantine comeback
As schools reopen and indoor dining tentatively resumes, running groups in the Bronx have also started meeting again for the first time during the pandemic under strict parameters. Bronx Sole,…
Approach of winter raises questions about heat in NYCHA complexes
On Oct. 1, Day One of the 2020 heating season, Danny Barber was worried. “The issues started already,” said Barber, president of the tenants association for NYCHA’s Jackson Houses in…
African-Muslim residents say it’s time for a change in the White House
For one African Muslim involved in Mott Haven affairs, there is a great divide between the two candidates for President in the Nov. 3 election. Community Board 1 member Abdoulaye…
South Bronx gun violence spikes amid pandemic
An eight-year-old shot in her mother’s NYCHA Patterson Housing apartment in Mott Haven. A man shot dead days after being released from prison in Hunts Point. Two women hit by…
NYCHA tenant association president runs for office, urges other residents to do the same
Tenant leaders reject Housing Authority’s latest funding proposal After seven mayors, 10 presidents and more than 50 years of living in the Frederick Douglass Houses on Manhattan’s Upper West Side,…
No letup in demand for local pantries, soup kitchens
A line stretched halfway down Morris Ave. and halfway around 153rd St. at a recent food market, held bimonthly by City Harvest, a non-profit organization that redistributes food throughout New…