Shakespeare gets the Hunts Point treatment
For the sixth year, Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders from Hunts Point put on a full-length Shakespeare play. This year’s production was “Romeo and Juliet.”
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Murals fuel desire to make change
In creating a series of murals, a group of students hopes to call attention to the need to make change and to some of those who have showed the way.
South Bronx Culture Trail begins second year
Housing advocate Sister Thomas, jazz flautist Dave Valentin, honored at event.
In debt, St. Ignatius may close
Parents and teachers are scrambling to save St. Ignatius School, with a fundraising campaign that must raise $1.3 million in a matter of weeks to prevent the school from being closed.
Kids dream big at Hunts Point’s hidden dance school
Watch kids salsa up a storm at Hunts Point’s hidden dance school.
Is reality TV headed to South Bronx?
After watching MTV, a Longwood native decides, “We could so do a show about the South Bronx.”
Hunts Point movie makes Bronx debut
A movie shot in Hunts Point with a cast drawn from The Point Community Development Corp. will have its hometown debut on April 17.
Artists recapture South Bronx history
Three participants in a radical artistic collaboration in the late 1970s were reunited at the Bronx Documentary Center on Feb. 16 to recall a time when a shabby storefront near the Hub became a hot spot of the New York art world.
Group wants memory of slain teen honored
Community Board agrees to push initiative to rename street for Damian “Cheese” Martinez to City Council.
Indie film depicts daily life of Hunts Point teens
French director’s latest features local high schoolers Academy Award-winning French filmmaker Michel Gondry is known
Crowds flock to photos of area’s recent past
Seis del Sur show emphasizes South Bronx’s vibrancy Among the hundreds of people who jammed
Shakespeare gets a Hunts Point touch
Hunts Point is ground zero for updated readings of Shakespeare classics by actors taking advantage of the opportunity to show what they’ve got.
Legendary Puerto Rican regiment honored
Street renaming casts spotlight on brave fighters The stretch of Southern Boulevard from Bruckner Boulevard
Community meal offers a reason to give thanks
A record number of people took part in Hunts Point’s annual Thanksgiving Community Outreach Dinner, providing turkey and all the trimmings to many who would otherwise have suffered from hunger or loneliness on the holiday.
East meets west on hip-hop stage
Click here to see a short video of Jogja in action Hip-hop was born in
Salsa’s golden age reborn in Longwood, for a day
[wzslider autoplay=”true”] The streets of Hunts Point and Longwood were alive with performers showcasing their
Young artists take aim at a concrete wall
A group of young people hopes to leave its artistic mark on a part of
Longwood preteen wins literary award
All ten-year-olds need a boost of encouragement, especially those who go on to change the
Culture trail pays homage to area history
Long before Dr. Jay’s, RadioShack and a 99-cent discount store took over a swath of
Bronx Trail traverses area’s musical roots
By Daniel Bejarano In the 1950s and ’60s the streets of the South Bronx were
From the editor: Art for all
Now that the Bloomberg administration has converted New York’s public schools to sweatshops for the
New exhibition celebrates the Bronx
Once known as the “home for poor millionaires,” an elegant mansion on the Grand Concourse has burst to glittering life as the home of a new art exhibit featuring 32 artists whose work meditates on the Bronx’s past and future.
Artist finds beauty in Bronx’s gritty streets
In grungy elevated subway tracks and aging apartment buildings Daniel Hauben has found what other landscape artists find in sunlit forests and seaside villas. Now, 22 paintings of Bronx scenes, commissioned by Bronx Community College, will welcome visitors to the the college’s new library.
Folk artist preserves Puerto Rican music
When Wilfredo Ruiz puts his harmonica to his lips, the elderly Puerto Rican residents of
Sheridan model refocuses debate
By Kimberly Devi Milner As Hunts Point waits for the city’s renovation plans on the