Fifth South Bronx Earth Fest is coming up
For the fifth year, South Bronx residents will mark Earth Day with a festival in St. Mary’s Park in Mott Haven on Saturday, April 21, from 12 noon to 4…
SoBRO offers free financial literacy workshop
A free workshop will be held at SoBRO on Wednesday, April 11, between 6 and 7 p.m. to provide financial planning tips and strategies. SoBRO’s financial education coordinator Stephane Hyacinthe…
New exhibition celebrates the Bronx
Works by 32 artists show borough’s many sides at Freedman House Once known as the “home for poor millionaires,” an elegant mansion on the Grand Concourse has burst to glittering…
Participatory budgeting votes are in
Millbrook Houses in Mott Haven will get long-awaited improvements to its playground on St. Ann's Avenue, and public housing projects across the neighborhood will receive new tamper-proof security cameras as…
Bronx museum offers free admission, school programs
The Bronx Museum of the Arts has begun offering free admission at all times, to expand access to more visitors and to help ring in the museum’s 40th anniversary.
Street renamed for Naiesha Pearson
Residents and officials commemorate slain child The corner of E. 139th St. and Brook Avenue in Mott Haven was renamed Naiesha Pearson Place on March 31st, in memory of the…
Community board questions FreshDirect deal
Worried members say Mott Haven will suffer Community Board 1 condemned the deal to move online grocer FreshDirect from Queens to Port Morris without community consultation after a heated debate…
Council members demonstrate for Trayvon Martin
Members of the New York City Council donned hoodies in a show of solidarity with slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin, in a demonstration on the steps of City Hall organized…