Serving Mott Haven, Melrose & Port Morris
City officials boasted in June of having spared libraries from budget cuts, while partially restoring funding for community composting. But in the South Bronx, residents aren’t celebrating yet. Branch libraries…
A program aimed at keeping nonviolent offenders out of jail and offering them new skills, has opened an office in Mott Haven. A ribbon cutting was held for the Center…
A Port Morris-based private waste carting company will be one of the first to participate in the city’s newly reformed program to divide commercial waste pickup. Waste Connections of NYC…
It’s a quiet primary Tuesday in precincts in the southeast Bronx. Here’s the outlook for today’s primary elections locally. In the 14th Congressional District, Marty Dolan, a financial analyst, is…
Just three days before Democratic primary elections, a crowd of about 300 withstood sweltering heat and humidity at St. Mary’s Park to rally for Rep. Jamaal Bowman. Bowman, a progressive…
South Bronx residents want to make sure law enforcement is keeping tabs on the status of cannabis dispensaries in the neighborhoods. At a Community Board 1 meeting on May 30…
Ask Mott Haven business owner Esteban Estevez for his favorite word in Nahuatl, the indigenous language he grew up speaking, and he’ll reply, “Tlazocamati.” In Mexico, there are roughly 1.5…
Congressman, Assembly members hold outdoor rallies, denouncing Trump’s campaign stop in the Bronx Elected officials representing districts across the…