Shakespeare gets the Hunts Point treatment
For the sixth year, Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders from Hunts Point put on a full-length Shakespeare play. This year’s production was “Romeo and Juliet.”
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Culture / Education
Art / Environment
Murals fuel desire to make change
In creating a series of murals, a group of students hopes to call attention to the need to make change and to some of those who have showed the way.
Business / Housing
With eye to the future, play looks at Spofford’s past
Hunts Point native Majora Carter has big plans to transform the way the neighborhood is developed.
Food / Health
Fresh food boards the bus
A food justice activist wants the city’s first mobile food market to roll in the South Bronx.
Education / Religion
In debt, St. Ignatius may close
Parents and teachers are scrambling to save St. Ignatius School, with a fundraising campaign that must raise $1.3 million in a matter of weeks to prevent the school from being closed.
Government / Politics
Albanese makes third mayoral run
Ex-Councilman would increase community policing, support parents Democratic mayoral candidate Sal Albanese is not one to toe the party line as a means of winning an election. First elected to the City Council to represent Bay Ridge in 1982, Albanese is looking to use his record as an independently-minded populist [...]
Culture / Video
Kids dream big at Hunts Point’s hidden dance school
Watch kids salsa up a storm at Hunts Point’s hidden dance school.
Parks / Transportation
New bus line links Hunts Point, Longwood
Workers getting off their shift at the Hunts Point markets have caught on that the new bus is convenient—and quiet.
Education / Parks
Kids make movies about Hunts Point
Program at the Rec turns out young filmmakers Chelsey Rodriguez, 11, took a deep breath, put her shyness aside and stepped into The Candy Box, a bodega on Spofford Avenue. She held an iPad and walked up to the owner, Gilbert Valle. She started recording a video, asking him questions [...]