Will NYOFCo rise from the grave?
The city forced the sewage-to-fertilizer plant on Oak Point Avenue to close its doors last summer after 16 years of nauseating smells. Now, though, the plant may be reopened.
Health
Will Green Carts survive?
At 8:30 one morning this summer, Ana Minches made a trip to the Hunts Point
DEP says sewer plant upgrade will help environment
When the Hunts Point sewage treatment plant was built in 1952, it wasn’t equipped to
Despite promises, asthma still plagues Hunts Point
A little boy no more than five brought home the meaning of environmental injustice to
Debate over future of Sheridan rages on
Without the Sheridan Expressway, rush hour traffic on some Hunts Point streets would nearly double
Electric delivery truck gets warm welcome
Big Green will soon be rolling down a street near you. The city’s first fully
School food even a student can love
Fresh produce has been a feature at St. Ignatius since September, courtesy of the Hunts Point Alliance for Children.
Water for sale
The only water store in North America encounters critics who say its product is unnecessary
Upstate harvest will feed Hunts Point families
Fifteen years ago, Dennis Derryck began to dream about a community-owned farm that would provide
Monitors hired to nose out NYOFCo stench
Under a cloud of uncertainty about its future following the loss last month of its
Accident claims life of Bronx crusader
Megan Charlop, an environmental crusader who founded Greening for Breathing, a grassroots initiative that planted
It takes a clinic to raise a child
By Jacqueline Wang jacqueline.wang@macaulay.cuny.edu It’s 10 a.m., and the clamor of wailing babies is reverberating
From the editor: A school the neighborhood needs
Three decades ago, Hunts Point was the location of an adventure so visionary and so
South Bronx Food Expo sows seeds for future
By Stephanie Litsas slitsas@hunter.cuny.edu More than 150 people filled The Point on a cold and
At a glance: organizations at the Food Expo
The Blk Projek promoted community supported agriculture. Members would buy shares of a farm’s harvest,
Workers picket Hunts Point Multiservice
By Joseph Gallagher josephtgallagher@gmail.com From the moment the Hunts Point Multiservice Center opened its doors
Competing visions spark turf war in Longwood park
By MARIA CLARK mariapclark@gmail.com On Sept. 26, the organizers of an effort to create a
New market sells produce to public wholesale
By Eleanor A. Miller NYCity News Service Tucked into the parking lot of the New
Michelle Obama’s garden inspires Hunts Point teen
By Jeanmarie Evelly jmevelly@gmail.com Victor Davila got the chance of a lifetime this summer—an invite
Nursing home speaks with a Spanish accent
By Megan Sperry ms.sperry@gmail.com Every morning, 73-year-old Carlos Perez does a 30-minute exercise routine in
‘Ambassadors’ want Hunts Point to get healthy
By Sarah Grieb sarah.e.grieb@gmail.com It’s a Friday morning and Miguel Carmona, 36, is one five
Hunts Point health center teaches by example
By Sarah Grieb sarah.e.grieb@gmail.com Project HOPE’s center on Hunts Point Avenue is itself a health
Health care help at a glance
Project HOPE What: Free nutrition and health education and yoga, dance and fitness classes. Where:
Small Longwood church feeds the hungry
By Fausto Giovanny Pinto Fpinto@hunter.cuny.edu Every Saturday Pastor John Udo-Okon wakes up at 3 a.m.
Feisty doc still fighting for Hunts Point
Dr. Richard Izquierdo pushes city to open a new school By Maria Clark maria.clark@journalism.cuny.edu When