Serving Mott Haven, Melrose & Port Morris
Legal Aid motion says thousands of inmate medical appointments didn’t take place in January, in contempt of a court order State Supreme Court Judge Elizabeth Taylor is considering a motion…
On a brisk November day, Marisol deLeon stepped out of her home and made her way to the Bronx Documentary Center. The 50-year-old South Bronx resident had a dove-shaped ornament,…
With new funding, youth programs in the Bronx are expanding to serve those at risk for violence in their communities. Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence (B.R.A.G.) announced that private foundation…
Amid a wave of gun violence plaguing the Bronx, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark and New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced several indictments following an investigation for crimes…
The city agency charged with leading the design and construction of four borough jails, including one on the site of an NYPD tow pound in Mott Haven, has announced that…
With recreational use of marijuana now legal in New York, many in the South Bronx are readying for new economic opportunities after decades of inequities and over-policing that resulted from…
Some 50 protesters marched from 136th Street and Brook Avenue to the 40th Precinct station house on Alexander Avenue on Sunday, Jan. 17, demanding accountability for the NYPD’s brutal crackdown…
The New York State Attorney General’s office has filed a lawsuit against the NYPD for making false arrests of peaceful protesters in Mott Haven last summer. AG Letitia James contends…