City owes Mott Haven tenants jobs, advocates contend
The New York City Housing Authority has reneged on a decade-old commitment to put job-hungry tenants to work making the buildings they live in cleaner and healthier, according to housing…
Developer has plans for longtime eyesore
Some residents worry, though, about new burdens With people going in and out of its grocery stores, restaurants and pharmacies, East 138th Street bustles. But just before it reaches the…
Investors, renters sought for old courthouse
The abandoned 105-year-old former courthouse at the corner of E. 161 St. and Third Ave in Melrose has seen better days, but a local nonprofit hopes federal tax credits may…
Mott Haven Open Studio Tour scheduled
The Fifth Annual Mott Haven Open Studio Tour will kick off Thursday, April 28 at 7 p.m. at the Bruckner Bar & Grill at 1 Bruckner Boulevard, where works by…
Urban fiction gives South Bronx voice
Every day a crowd gathers in the Hub around a sidewalk table spread with paperbacks, nestled between a Halal food cart and a stand selling discount socks. “Slim, I need…
Schools panhandle for goods city won’t supply
More teachers turn to public to ask for donations When Michelle DeFranco, a teacher at Hostos-Lincoln Academy in Melrose, needs something for her classroom, she takes matters into her own…
Urban fiction sidebar
Some educators view the popularity of urban fiction as a way to get people in areas like the South Bronx, where 45 percent of the residents over the age of…
Money woes close soup kitchen
Mott Haven food pantry may be next The soup kitchen run by the St. Benedict the Moor Neighborhood Center on St. Anns Avenue closed in November, leaving as many as…