Nos Quedamos hosts first annual youth symposium in the South Bronx
On a recent Saturday morning in Mott Haven, Leila Tazi, who works as an environmental organizer at Brooklyn College, was among a group of climate activists speaking to an auditorium…
Safety, drugs, inflation: What’s on the minds of South Bronx teens ahead of a tense election
This fall, reporters from the Mott Haven Herald and Hunts Point Express hit the streets of the South Bronx, attended local events, and led workshops to understand what young people…
Indignation and hope at town hall on climate change
When The Point CDC’s Climate Justice Hub Advocate asked the assembly in a church meeting room if they had experienced high pollution in their Bronx neighborhoods, more than half raised…
Congestion pricing: South Bronx caught between environmental injustice and transportation reform
When Gov. Kathy Hochul put an indefinite pause in June on much-anticipated plans for congestion pricing in the city, under pressure not to burden suburban commuters with steep tolls, some…
As city plans new routes for trucks, South Bronx advocates push for more community input
The city’s transportation department is taking heat from advocates in Hunts Point, for a proposal to reroute trucks they say fails to take public input into account. Out of nearly…
50 homegrown ways to better the Bronx
Bronx-based businesses and organizations have come up with 50 ways to improve the borough’s economic equity – and hopefully bring it in line with more prosperous parts of New York…
Renewable Rikers renews call for green transformation of jail complex
As Rikers Island awaits a decision about a possible federal receivership, community members in the South Bronx are calling for control of the jail complex to be transferred to agencies…
Residents vote on ways to spend “the People’s Money”
On Thursday, teams of volunteers spread out across the South Bronx to ask a simple question: How would you spend $5 million to help your neighborhood? The volunteers were collecting…