March 26 discussion on repurposing empty lots
A team of researchers is engaging the community in discussions about what to do with 100 vacant lots they have identified on the Hunts Point peninsula.
A team of researchers is engaging the community in discussions about what to do with 100 vacant lots they have identified on the Hunts Point peninsula.
SoBRO has been awarded a federal planning grant to work with South Bronx residents and
A panel of South Bronx residents, advocates and business owners at a forum at Hostos Community College, said the city must take the area’s high rates of disease into account before allowing industries to relocate to Hunts Point and Port Morris.
Seventh graders at the Bronx Studio School for Writers and Artists are trying to tackle some of the biggest issues facing them in their daily lives, by making presentations they hope will help lead to solutions.
Students from PS 48 are teaming with the NYC Food Bank to provide meals to local families. Hunts Point is a hot spot for the “meal gap,” the number of meals families are forced to miss due to poverty.
A video team followed a homeless man as he made the rounds in Hunts Point, trying to stay warm during the coldest February in the city in over 60 years.
A Canadian cement company will break ground in August on a 16-acre parcel at the end of East 149th Street, building a facility it said will “revolutionize” the way cement is distributed around the region through water-borne transportation.
The Hunts Point wholesale food markets learned this week that the mayor plans to invest $150 million in upgrades to their badly deteriorating infrastructure. Will it be enough?
Advocacy groups and residents who met with environmental officials to brainstorm a plan to fix sewage outflows along the Bronx River say overflows from Westchester must be addressed in the plan.
In an effort to spread the talents of its arts programs beyond its Manhattan campus, Lincoln Center will be hosting free concerts aimed at families and children Saturdays at the Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education.
Tenants at at 1058 Southern Boulevard will be answering to a new landlord, hoping the new boss is not the same as the old boss.
The city will soon solicit ideas for developing the former juvenile detention center on Spofford Avenue. Community Board 2 wants to be sure local residents are involved in the process from the get-go.
Postal officials faced a barrage of criticism at Community Board 2 on Feb. 11, from residents and representatives of elected officials.
From farms to fires, the story of the Bronx in the 20th century is told by those who lived it in a new collection of oral histories.
The Bronx Studio School for Writers and Artists will collaborate with Global Kids as part of a new mayoral initiative aimed at offering students social services schools can’t.
On Jan. 21, Casita Maria celebrated its 80th anniversary with an exhibition of distinguished alumni and their successes to show the community how the organization has shaped the lives of past “Casita Kids.”
A new program at the BankNote matches young adults with mentors in the technology field, hoping to create what the founder calls an “education-to-jobs network” in neighborhoods across the city.
Tats Cru will be honored at the Bronx Museum of the Arts on March 2 for their contributions to the local arts scene. The group police used to tell to ‘get moving,’ continues to rack up the accolades.
Although workers in the Hunts Point Terminal Market agreed to terms with owners, staving off a walkout, they are pushing the city to invest to upgrade the market’s decrepit infrastructure.
At a public informational meeting at The Point, a team of planners told residents that government money so far promised to protect the waterfront from storms and flooding is about 5 percent of what’s needed.
Workers at the Hunts Point Terminal Market say they will walk out on Sunday afternoon unless their demands for wage hikes and paid health benefits are met.
The Point CDC will host a public meeting on Thursday, Jan. 15, to update the community on the federal government and the city’s plans to protect Hunts Point from future storms and flooding.
With a core credo of “writing for academic success,” the program uses writing to help children fall in love with learning and literacy.
A fire that may have been deliberately set resulted in the evacuation of Longwood’s Feldco building, where Community Board 2, the social security office and a program for the developmentally disabled are located.
Sustainable South Bronx has teamed with an environmental company to collect data that can help identify the source of environmental conditions in the area and propose solutions.