Mott Haven group helps teens stay out of jail
As government cuts spending on jails, it relies increasingly on alternative-to-detention programs like South Bronx Community Connections in Mott Haven that supervise young people.
From the editor: What’s wrong with the Bronx?
What’s wrong with the Bronx? We are. Those of us who live here are the problem, according to a widely-circulated piece of punditry in The New York Times.
Company punished for illegal dumping
Some day, the city hopes, a site near the 145th Street Bridge will become a waterfront park, an extension of Mill Pond Park to the north. Now a guilty plea…
Birdcage Classic draws hoops hopefuls
Dwight Hardy went from the Andrew Jackson Houses in Melrose to the NCAAs as a star point guard for St. John's, and now stardom in an Italian professional basketball league.…
Bronx Community Pride Center closes
The Bronx Community Pride Center, the borough's biggest LGBT resource center, which moved to Longwood last year after 14 years in Mott Haven, is closing due to financial problems.
Group wants city to toughen waterfront plan
An environmental advocacy group is asking community boards in Mott Haven and other low-income, waterfront neighborhoods across the city to press officials to get tougher on polluters, and to consider…
Incinerators will foul the air, activists warn
Advocates and residents say the South Bronx continues to take a disproportionate amount of the city's garbage, because the mayor has not yet followed through on proposals to build waste…
Students use artistic muse to send message
Middle schoolers from MS 219X used school lunch tables as their canvases, to paint and draw depictions of issues that affect their communities, such as teenage pregnancy, gangs and violence,…