Bronx River Flotilla – Images by CUNY Photo Wire 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 [...]
Hunter College honored Hunts Point Express reporter Kimberly Devi Milner with its James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for her reporting in The Hunts Point Express and in Hunter’s student newspaper in a ceremony on April 30 that also included awards to a group of outstanding professional journalists for [...]
Tenants argue the court system is not helping them fight an abusive landlord, but instead is helping the owner to punish them for complaining.
The manager of a Hunts Point topless bar, and an attorney representing the club, told an administrative judge for the state’s Liquor Authority that police are to blame for their patrons’ unruly behavior, and that the bar should not be shut down. Members of Community Board 2 say the state [...]
The Bronx Borough President’s office has announced the opening of several locations around the Bronx where residents can go to warm up if their home heat is not working properly. All locations will be open for those looking to warm up between 9 and 4. Here are the locations around [...]
Three young people told it like it was, to every single resident In the late 1970′s, as Hunts Point faced some of its darkest days, residents and business owners could count on one publication to deliver the peninsula’s news, good and bad. The paper’s staff consisted of three young people [...]
Move over, Vince McMahon: Soundview gym is site for monthly bouts On a desolate Soundview street across the Bronx River from Hunts Point on a Saturday night in January, 40 wrestlers donned masks and costumes in the locker room of a neighborhood gym and prepared to go into battle on [...]
Medical waste facility seeks to expand The second largest medical waste disposal company in the United States plans to double the capacity of its Hunts Point facility, trucking in more red bags from hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices as far away as Rhode Island. As much as 80 tons of [...]
In the aftermath of Sandy, gas is scarce in Hunts Point While angry New Yorkers endured long waits in line to cast their ballots at disorganized polling sites on election day, some were just as frustrated with long, snaking lines that had formed for a very different reason: the shortage [...]