The BankNote Building, Hunts Point’s brick behemoth where money was once minted for countries around the world, is now headquarters for entrepreneurs who will try to earn their fortunes. The Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator opened in the century-old former fortress of finance on Garrison Ave. in January, becoming the first [...]
The city’s plans to rent nearly a third of the BankNote building to serve as a major hub for the borough’s public assistance programs has touched off a debate about the impact of bringing more than 2,200 residents in need to the neighborhood each day. “It’s a time bomb waiting [...]
A real-life event inspired Charles Rice-Gonzalez to write his debut novel, Chulito, a coming-of-age and coming out queer love story set in Hunts Point. “Chulito”, published in October, grew from the memory of a day in the late 1990s, when Rice-Gonzalez sat looking out onto the Grand Concourse from the [...]
Robert Seyffert is a man who doesn’t like to let go. He has made a mission of retrieving and preserving his grandfather’s paintings. His own paintings look to the 1960s as a Golden Age. And he remains in in Hunts Point’s BankNote building, the last artist in the vast fortress-like [...]
Ten-year-old Winfred Darko looked on as electrical sparks flew from the apparatus in front of him. A student at Hyde Leadership Charter School, after getting a lesson, he had built the device to mimic the part of the heart that causes it to beat by generating electrical impulses. “I liked [...]
Employment seekers in Hunts Point can use all the good news they can get these days, as the job market continues to sputter. One piece of promising news arrived on March 24, as a respected non-profit organization that helps returning veterans, the formerly incarcerated and young people prepare for and [...]
The smokestack of the BankNote building juts skyward like a six-story high red lipstick. Its owners hope it will be seen as a symbol of the transformation of the century-old mint into a magnet for schools and information-age businesses. The former factory has been getting its facelift since 2007, when [...]
By Kahliah Laney NYCity News Service Students and parents banged, built and buzzed through the BankNote building and several party-sized tents outside it, on Nov. 4, building boats with plastic and Play-Doh and shooting laser beams. Some of the students stood around an inflatable pool filled with water. With what [...]
Butterfly is an 18-year-old prostitute who works the block facing the Corpus Christi Monastery in Hunts Point. She has been walking the streets of Hunts Point since she was 14. Two years ago, she got out, staying with family in Westchester. But after a year-and-a-half in Pleasantville, in a setting [...]