Mott Haven Herald

Politicians’ kin admits to embezzlement

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.

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The head of a Bronx non-profit has admitted that he embezzled $115,000 intended to help low-income tenants and funneled some of the money to Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, his grandmother, and Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo, his aunt.
Richard Izquierdo Arroyo, pleaded guilty in federal court on March 12, and faces a 10-year prison sentence.
Arroyo, who was [...]

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Archbishop of Canterbury visits St. Ann’s

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury visited St. Ann’s Church on Jan. 27 to gain an understanding of the work the the Episcopal Church does with the poor.
Rev. Martha Overall, the pastor of the Mott Haven church, showed Archbishop Rowan Williams the church’s Wednesday food pantry.
She told the archbishop, who is the symbolic head of [...]

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Grant promises unemployed 300 ‘green jobs’

Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.

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The recipient of a $4 million federal grant is promising that 300 unemployed residents of Hunts Point, Longwood, Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris will find jobs under a new training program for “green” jobs.
The Consortium for Worker Education will use the money to establish a Center for Environmental Workforce Training to teach both job [...]

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Neighborhood voices: Urban farming NYC

Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.

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Check out this video about the growing movement in the South Bronx and beyond! Featured in the video are The Point CDC, Bissel Gardens, Friends of Brook Park, Part of the Solution, Brotherhood / Sister Sol, slides courtesy of the Majora Carter Group, Bascom Catering, and more!

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Feds charge Arroyo kin with embezzlement

Posted on 12. Jun, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.

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Taxpayer funds intended for two low-income housing projects in Mott Haven paid for trips to Puerto Rico for Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo and her mother Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, according to a federal criminal complaint charging the assemblywoman’s grandson with embezzlement.
Richard Izquierdo Arroyo and Margarita Villegas stole $200,000 from the non-profit SBCC Management Corp., which [...]

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Buy-back takes an arsenal off Bronx streets

Posted on 02. Jun, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.

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By Azriel James Relph
azriel.james.relph@gmail.com
When you subtract nearly a thousand guns from the arsenals of residents, what do you get? Safer Bronx streets, say the organizers of the Fourth Annual Mother’s Day Walk Against Gun Violence.
In April, the most successful gun buy-back since the New York City Police Department and the Bronx District Attorney program began [...]

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Lawsuit seeks to block Randall’s Island deal

Posted on 26. May, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.

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Several South Bronx and East Harlem organizations and residents filed suit on May 27 in an effort to keep the city from carrying out its plan to reserve most of the ball fields on Randall’s Island for Manhattan private schools on school-day afternoons.
The suit charges that the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation [...]

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New borough chief will bring change

Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.

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By Caroline Linton
caroline.linton@motthavenherald.com
The Bronx Borough President’s race was all about the numbers: 21; two; $200; $270,000; three and 149.
Twenty-one was April 21, the date of the special election to replace Adolfo Carrión, Jr., now a member of the Obama administration.
Two was the number of candidates in what was once expected to be a crowded [...]

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With change in the wind, some residents worry

Posted on 20. Apr, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.

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By Caroline Linton
Caroline.linton@motthavenherald.com
Lamont Barkley, 42, has lived in Mott Haven his whole life and has witnessed the devastation that overtook the neighborhood, and its rebuilding.
But that does not mean he’s ready for the latest change: the city’s plan to replace gritty industrial buildings with high-rise waterfront apartments and retail businesses.

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Friends of Brook Park says ‘Draw us in’

Posted on 20. Apr, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.

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An organization that has long crusaded for a waterfront park at the end of Park Avenue is calling on the city to make its creation possible by redrawing the boundaries of its blueprint for the Lower Grand Concourse.
All that is required is moving the southern boundary “a mere 100 feet to the South along the [...]