High school garden is an oasis for students
While the neighborhood is trying to buck its food desert status, diabetes and unhealthy food still abound, and fresh, healthy options remain scarce. But here, students say the garden has…
Groups help Bronxites navigate health care red tape
NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln Hospital tapped Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to collaborate on a detailed training for community members and leaders to master the upcoming enrollment periods for…
Councilman pushes for opioid antidote in schools
The South Bronx had the highest rate of drug overdoses in the city last year, according to a study by the health department. City Councilman Rafael Salamanca Jr. is proposing…
South Bronx is hardest place to beat the heat
It comes as no surprise for residents of Mott Haven and Hunts Point to learn their neighborhoods are among the city's toughest in which to endure the hot summer months,…
New diabetes treatment center to open in Hub
A new, state-of-the-art diabetes treatment center is coming soon to a place where it’s needed the most: the South Bronx.
Local coalition wins citywide design award
A Mott Haven grassroots group is one of two citywide to win a prestigious and highly competitive urban design award that will help them transform a former drug rehab clinic…
Narco Freedom owners plead guilty to fraud charges
The executives who ran the disgraced Mott Haven nonprofit Narco Freedom Inc. pled guilty yesterday in New York State Supreme Court in the Bronx, to charges that they stole at…
Officials: Health care cuts would hit hard locally
Public health officials are concerned that programs designed to treat asthma and other illnesses in low-income neighborhoods like the South Bronx could be doomed if the federal government moves ahead…