Birthdays are a time to reflect on the past–to chart how far you’ve come. So it was no surprise when community activists who gathered for the 10th birthday celebration of the Bronx River Alliance described what the Bronx River looked like the first time they saw it. As a girl [...]
Last summer, 17-year-old Jocelyn Smith had sex for the first time. Not long afterward, she found she was pregnant. Her angry parents beat her. Within a few months, she had broken up with her boyfriend. “I needed people I could talk to that I could trust,” she recalled. A friend [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The hot, dry summer has the neighborhood’s street trees panting for water. So the Parks Department is hoping residents will pitch in to help keep the trees healthy. Watering guidelines The Parks Department suggests the following basic guidelines when watering street trees: • Water each young tree 15-20 gallons once [...]
Three years ago, three local community organizations – The Point CDC, Sustainable South Bronx and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice – banded together in an effort to ensure that new development met the needs of residents. Surveying the opportunities, they found that the rebuilding of the South Bronx had [...]
The city has abandoned plans to build a new jail in Hunts Point, four years after then Corrections Commissioner Martin Horn announced his intention to build a 2,000-bed facility on a 28-acre waterfront site in the Oak Point rail yard. In addition, the 870-bed jail barge now moored near the [...]
NYOFCo, the fertilizer company that Hunts Point residents have been fighting for over a decade, has announced it will be closing and leaving the neighborhood for good. “This is a huge step forward for the neighborhood,” said Kellie Terry-Sepulveda, executive director of The Point CDC, one of many local organizations [...]