Legendary dance group gone from BankNote
The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance will dance no more at Hunts Point’s historic BankNote Building, after the investment company that bought the building five years ago bids them an unceremonious ‘adieu.’
Business
Business / Culture
Business / Government
Integrity Commission Rapped
A city government commission founded to combat organized crime is instead operating a shakedown operation, business owners charge.
Business
Hookah bar wins OK to open
Hunts Point’s first hookah bar is set to open on Southern Boulevard in early August.
Business
Another strip club denied
Platinum Pleasures is the latest strip club to be shut down in Hunts Point.
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.
Business / Environment
Local group to promote recycling
Sustainable South Bronx has received a $200,000 grant to create a program to boost recycling in apartment buildings in the area. The environmental non-profit on Lafayette Avenue is looking to help turn things around in the neighborhood, which rates dead last in recycling in the city. The group will work [...]
Business / Environment
New allies join FreshDirect foes
Sustainable South Bronx, Greenworker Cooperatives and the Bronx Council on Environmental Quality have joined the opposition to FreshDirect’s move to the Harlem River Yards.
Business / Government / Transportation
Highway studies cost $20 million
Consultants benefited most from canceled project Taxpayers spent more than $20 million for studies of the Sheridan and Bruckner expressways before the State Department of Transportation pulled the plug on the project last year, new information obtained by The Hunts Point Express through the Freedom of Information Law shows. The [...]
Business / Economy
Small businesses hurting on Southern Blvd.
Hunts Point Christmas shoppers hunting for bargains elsewhere It’s going to be a blue Christmas on Southern Boulevard, storeowners fear. The general consensus among storeowners and managers in Longwood’s commercial district is that their businesses are losing money, just when retailers everywhere look to do their biggest volume in sales. [...]