Mass Transit Theater brings the streets to the stage
Bronx-based acting company marks ’40 years of art and activism’ Four high school students stand in a line, complaining about how their school treated them. “Any morning when you get…
Listen up soldier—you’re in the Cadets now
Outside the Betances Community Center on St. Ann’s Avenue and East 146th Street, 20 or so young men and women wearing Army fatigues scrambled to form straight lines, then raised…
Marchers call for end to gun violence
Mott Haven residents lead effort to stop the bleeding As she sat on her aunt’s lap, tears streamed down five-year-old Maryliz Romero’s face as she thought of her uncle, whose…
Earth Fest reaches out with music and games
The Bronx throws a party for Earth Day’s 40th birthday Legendary emcee Grandmaster Caz has been packing parties in the South Bronx since 1974, but none quite like the one…
A Mott Haven bridge to the information highway
Classes connect residents to jobs and family on-line By Vishal Persaud [email protected] Hunched over a keyboard in the second row of a computer lab at the Phipps Opportunity Center in…
Homeless struggle against increasing odds
On a recent Saturday, a young family of five shuffled along East 138th Street. Jimmy (who asked that the family name not be published) rolled a green duffle bag filled…
Empty stomachs strain Mott Haven pantries
Anthony Jordan didn’t need pollsters to tell him that people in Mott Haven are hungry. He just has to look at the line outside the food pantry he runs at…
Mott Haven’s money isn’t in banks
City launches “Safe Start” account to help underbanked New Yorkers On a recent Saturday afternoon, Leo Lendy, a 21-year-old Mott Haven resident, walked out of the Pay-O-Matic on 149th Street…