Recycling advocates hit NYCHA with lawsuit
Longword's Mothers on the Move is one of three environmental justice organizations that have filed a lawsuit against NYCHA, contending that workers routinely flaunt laws requiring them to sort recyclables…
Participatory Budgeting 2015 winners announced
Eight Mott Haven schools will divide $1 million for new air conditioning and technology upgrades after project proposals to fund them received the highest number of votes from local residents…
Participatory Budgeting Vote 2015: April 11-19
Councilwoman urges residents to get out and vote This year’s Participatory Budgeting votingin Mott Haven kicks off on April 11 and will run through April 19. City Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito…
Tenants fight the system, and the cold
Residents at one of the city's biggest public housing complexes say they're fed up with undependable heat and hot water, an extended gas outage and unresponsive management.
Neighborhood transformation plan unveiled
After two years of intensive planning for what they hope will be a major facelift to the neighborhood, residents at a Nov. 5 public meeting in Mott Haven finally saw…
NYCHA residents dream big
Mott Haven public housing residents are vying for a grant from a federal program that will provide big money for a few lucky communities nationwide.
Developers eye public housing
Feds ask residents to help plan sweeping change On a walking tour of Mott Haven in June, residents were asked to think big about the kinds of improvements they would…
Homicides, assaults drop in 2012, robberies up
Residents urge cops to rein in reckless drivers Mott Haven’s violent crime rate came way down in 2012, a drop police attribute to three major busts of local gangs orchestrated…