NYCHA complexes fight the cold, and the system
While most New Yorkers waited out record low temperatures from the comfort of their heated homes this holiday season, thousands of NYCHA residents braced against the single digit cold with…
Group targets violence at its root
Program is staffed by reformed gang members who work to defuse tensions between rival gangs.
Police beat: Dec. 30- Jan. 7
Assaults A 32-year-old woman was slashed at a Mott Haven strip club on Dec. 30. Police say the victim was dancing at Sin City around 4 in the morning when…
Youth groups wreak havoc in Mott Haven
But cops say they’re making progress vs. crews Small groups of teenagers known as “crews” were the source of most of Mott Haven’s violent street crime in 2012. Crews committed…
Police beat: Oct. 22-28
Father charged with raping daughter A 46-year-old man was charged with raping his 13-year-old daughter in their apartment on Wales Street on Oct. 28 around 12:30 p.m., police said. Officers…
Tenant leaders talk tactics in the Big Easy
Public housing activists eager to get more residents involved Tenants of public housing complexes in Mott Haven and Melrose have no shortage of complaints, and now some are taking it…