by Anika Anand; Video by Kenneth Christensen Residents learn about recycling, conservation at annual festival For the fifth straight year, Bronxites gathered at St. Mary’s Park to celebrate Earth Fest, sharing ideas for innovative ways to green the planet. Representatives from businesses, community organizations, and city agencies combined on April [...]
Bronx community groups took to the streets of Manhattan on April 9th to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plans to test new garbage disposal technology they fear will end up hurting the South Bronx. Representatives from The Point CDC, Nos Quedamos, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice and other community organizations [...]
A non-profit organization based in Manhattan has won an environmental award that will help it clean the Bronx while putting local residents to work. The Consortium for Worker Education the education arm of the AFL-CIO’s New York City Central Labor Council—was awarded the 2012 Environmental Quality Award for its part [...]
Paloma Izquierdo-Herandez, President and CEO of Urban Health Plan in Hunts Point, was honored in Washington DC on March 27th, for her accomplishments and contributions as a Latina leader in the community.
By Shanae Simmons A new report from the U.S. Surgeon General validates what anti-smoking campaigners working in Hunts Point already know: fewer young people are smoking than in the past, but big tobacco companies are still doing everything they can to create new customer addicts. The findings underscore the need [...]
By Kimberly Devi Milner Calls to create a green Bronx, tear down the Sheridan Expressway and serve nutritious lunches echoed across The Point’s Live from the Edge Theater at the community center’s annual Town Hall meeting on March 21st. Teen activists from the center’s community leadership program, A.C.T.I.O.N., presented campaigns [...]
By Gwendolyn McClure About 30 protesters marched on Jan. 21 from a Morrisania health clinic that provides abortions, women’s health care and counseling to a Mott Haven clinic they say uses deceitful methods to dissuade women from having abortions. The rally was held to coincide with the 39th anniversary of [...]
City officials continue to keep a tight lid on information concerning the future of NYOFCo, the defunct sewage treatment plant that provoked 16 years of protest over the awful smells that rose from the plant on Oak Point Avenue topped with a red-and-white striped smoke stack. But the district manager [...]
Water from your tap is not only hundreds of times cheaper than bottled water, it tastes just as good. That was the conclusion of several dozen pedestrians who were asked to compare New York City tap water with Pure Life and Poland Spring bottled water in a blind taste test [...]