By Kenneth Christensen maxwellchristensen@gmail.com Hunts Point has been home to some of the city’s highest unemployment and asthma rates for decades, but city officials hope an initiative that will bring an alternative fueling facility to the neighborhood will help to reduce both problems. The proposal is part of the Hunts [...]
By Stuart M. White stuart.m.white@gmail.com The New York City Housing Authority has reneged on a decade-old commitment to put job-hungry tenants to work making the buildings they live in cleaner and healthier, according to housing advocates. Advocacy groups in the South Bronx are trying to change that.
Each evening, Edward Taylor makes sure his delivery truck is ready for the next day’s work. He plugs it in. Taylor is the owner of Down East Seafood on Manida Street near Barretto Point Park, and his company is the first in New York City to operate an all-electric delivery [...]
A little boy no more than five brought home the meaning of environmental injustice to Miquela Craytor, she recalled at a recent press conference with The Hunts Point Express. At a rally at the Oak Point rail yards three years ago to protest the city’s plans to build a jail [...]
Big Green will soon be rolling down a street near you. The city’s first fully electric mid-sized delivery truck, given the name Big Green by its owner, Ed Taylor, was unveiled in Hunts Point on June 16. The refrigerated cargo truck, which will carry fresh food and frozen goods like [...]