Articles written by: Jacqueline Wang

Education / Health

It takes a clinic to raise a child

by | February 19, 2010 | 0 comments
Babies play with each other as their mothers talk to the doctor

By Jacqueline Wang jacqueline.wang@macaulay.cuny.edu It’s 10 a.m., and the clamor of wailing babies is reverberating through the South Bronx Health Center for Children and Families at 871 Prospect Avenue. In a room filled with pink and blue balloons, Dr. Hildred Machuca is recording the height and weight of Jadelin Cintron, [...]

Education

Offered a Hunts Point home, school needs city’s OK

by | December 19, 2009 | 15 comments
Offered a Hunts Point home, school needs city’s OK

The proposal calls for students to graduate with both a high school diploma and an industry-recognized employment certifications in such fields as green roofing, urban agribusiness, natural resource maintenance, recycling, brown field remediation or hazardous waste cleanup.