The company owned by former New York Mets slugger turned real estate developer Mo Vaughn has purchased eight apartment buildings in Longwood with promises to turn them into well-managed, affordable housing for years to come. Vaughn’s company, Omni New York LLC, paid $33.5 million for the seven buildings on Fox [...]
As two raids years apart at virtually the same locations indicate, the drug trade continues to flourish in Hunts Point.
Success Charter Network is planning to open a new public elementary school in District 7 in Mott Haven in the fall of 2011. The group will hold a public meeting on Wednesday, August 11, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of Bronx Success Academy 1, at 510 E. 141st St. [...]
By Joe Hirsch news@huntspointexpress.com The beleaguered tenants of 621-627 Manida Street finally got their wish on June 12th, when their buildings were sold at a foreclosure auction to Omni New York LLC, a non-profit with a solid reputation for rehabbing decaying buildings quickly. About a dozen tenants of the 112-unit [...]
Starting July 5, 16 lucky teens will build a wooden rowboat, take it on a five-day trip and get paid for it, as Rocking the Boat launches its summer program. Another 20 youngsters will explore the estuaries surrounding the Bronx, learning navigation techniques and working to improve the ecological health [...]
By Azriel James Relph Flies buzz around the rotting corpse of a dead cat lying on a filthy floor in an apartment at 627 Manida Street. Heaps of months-old garbage cover every inch of the floor in what was once someone’s two-bedroom apartment. The locks have long since been broken, [...]
By Maria Clark mariapclark@gmail.com Six months after deplorable and dangerous conditions in the complex of buildings at 621-627 Manida Street were made public, some basic renovations have been made. But there is still a long way to go before apartments are safe and comfortable, say tenants and advocates. Ocelot Capitol [...]
An Express news analysis By James Bachhuber When a two-year-old real estate investment firm with extensive holdings bought the four-building apartment complex at 621-623 and 625-627 Manida Street for $7.2 million in 2007, the company’s president boasted that she was “proud that Ocelot Capital will soon be one of the [...]
By James Bachhuber and Joe Hirsch The government-sponsored agency that holds the mortgage on Hunts Point’s “house of horrors,” the four-building apartment complex at 621-627 Manida Street, has foreclosed on the property, leaving a court-appointed receiver and management company to deal with one of the city’s worst buildings.