The Bronx River Alliance has announced a new chairperson for its board of directors for the first time in three years. Bronx native Kellie Terry-Sepulveda, executive director of Hunts Point’s The Point Community Development Corporation, was named to replace Joan Byron at the board’s helm. Terry-Sepulveda has been a member [...]
Without the Sheridan Expressway, rush hour traffic on some Hunts Point streets would nearly double over the next 20 years, state traffic engineers told an impatient and occasionally angry crowd of about 60 Hunts Point residents, community advocates and business leaders gathered at Casita Maria on Simpson Street on July [...]
By Joseph Gallagher josephtgallagher@gmail.com The battle over the future of the Sheridan Expressway has grown increasingly heated as traffic engineers continue to refine their proposals for improving access to the Hunts Point markets. Plans call for building a new interchange at Oak Point Avenue that would lead from the Bruckner [...]
Down amidst the mountains of scrap metal and the forbidding fences of industry sits one of the neighborhood’s crown jewels, a cozy little park right on the Bronx River. Now that park is receiving not only visits from local residents and canoeists, but it’s getting national attention as well for [...]
By Azriel James Relph Azriel.james.relph@gmail.com Photo by Dwaine Lee Trainees in Sustainable South Bronx’s BEST (Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training) program weatherize a roof. The global economic crisis casts a dark cloud over neighborhoods like Hunts Point and Longwood, where unemployment, already around 24 percent, is four times the national average. [...]