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…
Cops, residents seek to thaw icy relations
Advocates and police partner at Night Out Against Crime By Kathy Conkwright conkwright@motthavenherald.com The first time Angel Irizarry and Danny Barber met one another six years ago, they butted heads.…
‘Put down your guns,’ youth group pleads
Mott Haven organization works to curb growing violence Danny Barber has been warned that people are out to kill him because he’s trying to keep young people from a life…
Two who work to make a difference
Neighborhood leadership takes many forms. From organizing farmers' markets to advocating tenants' rights, Mott Haven has many residents who work hard to make the their neighborhood a better place to…
In the news, July 12-18
A new initiative hopes to bring the Bronx into the Internet age, providing high speed Internet access to 400,000 households in the borough. The Bronx lags the other boroughs in…
Mott Haven flunks Recycling 101
Housing Authority facilities make recycling difficult Glass, metals, apple cores: It’s all the same to Mott Haven residents, according to a report published in the Daily News on Oct. 4.…
Rats plague seniors in Betances Houses
Tenants complain that they live in ‘The stinkiest building in New York” and say the Housing Authority makes things worse By Lindsay Lazarski lindsay.lazarski@motthavenherald.com For months, residents of the Betances…
Mott Haven community center is reborn
Critics mourn an end to boxing at Betances By Lindsay Lazarski Lindsay.lazarski@motthavenherald.com For years the thumping of fists pounding punching bags, the scuffle of sneakers and the grunts of athletes…