Therapeutic art pops out in the South Bronx
On a sunny afternoon in Joyce Kilmer Park, 5-year-old Jose Gabriel Mejia-Carela ran over to a small group of people painting and drawing on paper and canvases using brushes, pencils,…
Kitara’s Angels provide model for new fashion program
Kitara’s Angels are Bronx women who walked their fifth fashion show at Bronx Fashion Week earlier this month suited in bright, floral printed jackets, capes and corsets — the latest…
Mott Haven Library pilots free home Wi-Fi program
The Mott Haven Library is a central player in New York Public Library’s effort to offer high quality cellular internet service to neighborhoods across the city. Mott Haven was one…
One Mott Haven artist’s mission: Save the monarchs
When Mott Haven artist Blanka Amezkua was growing up in the Mexican state of Michoacan, every fall the sky would fill with monarch butterflies settling in for the winter after…
Bill to end solitary confinement in city jails draws competing City Hall rallies
Bronxite Kalief Browder was only 22 when he died by suicide in 2015, after spending two years in solitary confinment at Rikers Island. He is a central figure in an…
South Bronx NYCHA residents to receive free Wifi
Residents of Mott Haven Houses and Patterson Houses are among the first in the city to receive free high-speed internet and basic cable TV service through a broadband program being…
Little Amal reawakens push for a waterfront park
A ten-year-old girl’s quest to deliver a symbolic yellow paper fish to the Harlem River, followed by a marching crowd waving blue streamer kites and wearing fish paper hats, highlighted…
Stage Garden Rumba brightens up Brook Park with Latin music and poetry
Women drummed Bomba music and poets spoke out against prejudice and colonization at the Stage Garden Rumba at Brook Park on Sept. 17, part of a cultural events series to…