Hunts Point arms for battle over jail
A coalition of Hunts Point neighborhood activists, legal aid organizations, and prisoners rights groups say the city shouldn’t build a 2,000-bed jail at the Oak Point rail yard.
Month: November 2006
Dead-end street is fisherman’s haven
By Christina Davis christina8361@gmail.com Nearly every day, a group of old friends meet on the
Hunts Point’s pioneering green roof
By Emily Taken-Vertz Emtv708@gmail.com Last year, the environmental organization Sustainable South Bronx planted a secret
What’s that smell? the Hunts Point sewage plant
For more than a decade Hunts Point Organizations have fought to make a local sewage processing plant respect its neighbors’ needs. Now they’re trying something new: buying stock and using their power as shareholders to demand improvements.