LBGTQ community rallies against hate
Murder of Mark Carson in East Village in May prompts urgent response.
Hunts Point celebrates its waterfront
About 300 residents and visitors came out for Hunts Point’s tenth annual Fish Parade.
City calls for changes to the Sheridan
Advocates, who for over a decade have fought to replace the highway, with housing, businesses, parks and easy access to the Bronx River, are happy with some parts of a new city plan, but not with others.
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.”
Fresh food boards the bus
A food justice activist wants the city’s first mobile food market to roll in the South Bronx.
Culture
Latin music legend memorialized in Longwood
From now on, Dawson Street between Intervale and Longwood avenues will also be known as Arsenio Rodriguez Way, in honor of the godfather of salsa.
Education , Environment
Rocking the Boat launches latest creations
Rocking the Boat launched a 29-foot replica of a historic whaleboat to celebrate the end of the semester.
Culture , Video
Finding peace through free running
Watch a video of a Hunts Point teen who’s flipped for free running.
Business
Another strip club denied
Platinum Pleasures is the latest strip club to be shut down in Hunts Point.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
News
Education
P.S. 48 parents say bullying must stop
But school officials say there is no such problem When Salma Ndie picked her daughter Maty up from school at P.S. 48 on Spofford Avenue one afternoon earlier this year, the six-year-old was missing two teeth. School officials told Ndie that Maty had fallen down a flight of stairs. But [...]
Government / Politics
Six new members appointed to Community Board 2
Borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. has appointed ten new members to Community Board 2. The board represents Hunts Point and Longwood in an advisory capacity on issues ranging from land use and housing to schools and jobs. Applicants must live or work in the community.
Art / Culture / Environment
Using Art to Make Change
The goal of “Art Sustains” was to work toward recognition of Hunts Point as a cultural district.
Housing
Community board rejects shelter for homeless
Owner flaunted zoning regulations, board contends The owner of a shelter for the homeless in Longwood may be ordered to demolish the building’s top two floors, after the city’s Department of Buildings found they were added illegally. Community Board 2 members say the owner of the building at 731 Southern [...]
News
Pabón announces council candidacy at Hunts Point library
Candidate says he’s in a long line of South Bronx Puerto Rican activists City Council hopeful Julio Pabón invoked the memory of Bronx Puerto Rican activists of the past as he officially announced his candidacy at a May 21 press conference at the in Father Gigante Square next to the [...]
Art / Environment
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.
Business / Housing
With eye to the future, play looks at Spofford’s past
Hunts Point native Majora Carter has big plans to transform the way the neighborhood is developed.
Housing
House of Horrors emerges from the rubble
Developer revives neglected Manida St. building Carmen Rodriguez will never forget the time her then 12-year-old daughter told a friend that she didn’t live on Manida Street. “She was embarrassed of where she lived,” said Rodriguez, who has lived at 623 Manida Street—part of the apartment complex infamously known as [...]