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…
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…
But a controversial proposal could keep playing fields off-limits By Lindsay Lazarski lindsay.lazarski@motthavenherald.com Elected officials and the Parks Department describe Randall’s Island as an invaluable resource, and boast that its…
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…
Diaz emphasizes spending on schools and green jobs By Caroline Linton caroline.linton@motthavenherald.com The Bronx Borough President’s race was all about the numbers: 21; two; $200; $270,000; three and 149. Twenty-one…
On the southern end of the Grand Concourse, barbed wire, car dealerships and auto parts suppliers line the road, surrounded by industrial buildings that have seen busier days. The Mott…
Where auto shops and empty factories now predominate, apartments and a hotel would rise By Maria Clark maria.clark@motthavenherald.com The lower section of the Grand Concourse is almost entirely dedicated to…
If fancy apartments and stores move in, will they be pushed out? By Caroline Linton Caroline.linton@motthavenherald.com Lamont Barkley, 42, has lived in Mott Haven his whole life and has witnessed…
An organization that has long crusaded for a waterfront park at the end of Park Avenue is calling on the city to make its creation possible by redrawing the boundaries…