City finds Legionnella’ bacteria in two area cooling towers
City pinpoints source of latest Legionnaire's outbreak to at least two cooling towers in the South Bronx.
New diabetes prevention program coming to St. Mary’s
Power Up for Health, a new program designed to help men of all ages prevent the onset of diabetes, will begin at St. Mary’s Recreation Center in mid-August. The program focuses…
Recovering addicts worry they’re being forgotten
A local drug rehabilitation program and the shelters it ran are the target of a recent sting by the AG's office. Although the patients who use Narco Freedom's services say…
Drug clinic bosses arrested in Mott Haven
The top executives of a prominent, Mott Haven-based drug rehab and transitional housing network are under indictment for bilking nearly $30 million from Medicaid.
St. Mary’s needs overhaul, residents say
A small amount of city funding to fix a playground at St. Mary’s Park has opened up a conversation about fixing the South Bronx’s biggest park, for the first time…
Tenants fight the system, and the cold
Residents at one of the city's biggest public housing complexes say they're fed up with undependable heat and hot water, an extended gas outage and unresponsive management.
Residents rip waste transfer plan
Irate residents and city officials leveled withering criticism at four representatives of medical waste treatment giant Stericycle in a public meeting on Oct. 7 at Hostos Community College, saying they…
Waste management plan irks residents
A huge medical waste management company under investigation out west has Mott Haven residents nervous, as it requests a permit to store hazardous waste in its Port Morris plant.