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.”
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Flotilla held at newest Bronx park
Starlight Park opens to tenth annual running of Bronx River event Only one team won the Bronx River Flotilla’s first ever Starlight 5K Canoe Challenge—a team calling itself In the Woods, which finished the canoe race in 55 minutes—but they weren’t the only ones able to celebrate the annual event. [...]
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Decision on St. Ignatius postponed to May 24
St. Ignatius School has won a reprieve, but it may be a brief one. The board of New York Nativity, which governs St. Ignatius and two others, has put off until May 24 a decision on whether to close the Manida Street middle school.
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In debt, St. Ignatius may close
Parents and teachers are scrambling to save St. Ignatius School, with a fundraising campaign that must raise $1.3 million in a matter of weeks to prevent the school from being closed.
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Kids make movies about Hunts Point
Program at the Rec turns out young filmmakers Chelsey Rodriguez, 11, took a deep breath, put her shyness aside and stepped into The Candy Box, a bodega on Spofford Avenue. She held an iPad and walked up to the owner, Gilbert Valle. She started recording a video, asking him questions [...]
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Youth football league a haven for local kids
Adults hope football will help keep kids off drugs Residents who oversee a local youth football team in hopes of keeping them drug-free, want to convert an abandoned Longwood tennis court into a turf field where the kids can practice. Glen Williams, a former drug counselor, says he wants to [...]
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Rocking Manhattan in boats built in the Bronx
Supporters row around Gotham for annual fundraiser Some 100 people sacrificed hours of sleep on a Saturday in late September, and instead gathered at the Staten Island Ferry terminal in downtown Manhattan at 7 a.m. for a day-long workout. The group came together on Sept. 27 to take part in [...]
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Hyde’s ‘green dean’ thrilled to be back
The new dean of students at Hyde Leadership Charter School has a history of staring down tough challenges in Hunts Point.
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School fair colors Hunts Point green
For its sixth annual School Fair, the Hunts Point Alliance for Children teamed up with Green Apple Day of Service to transform Hunts Point Riverside Park into an environmental festival.