Exploring trauma and the human body through art
Disparate ingredients are part of Historical Amnesia, a collection of five artists’ work exploring historical trauma, marginalization and how those concepts are traced through the human body.
Arts & Culture
Mercy Center remembers Sister Mary Ann Dirr
The idea for a center began when Sister Mary Ann came to Mott Haven to serve as a pastoral associate at St. Pius V in the mid-’80s. She provided counseling services for mothers and children, sensing a need for unity among the women.
Genesis of Bronx harm reduction: the church
Needle exchange programs were illegal in the United States at the time, despite their documented success by both the Government Accountability Office and the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
Pastor, city square off over church parking lot
A protracted rift between a Mott Haven church and the housing department over the fate
Mott Haven is latest stop on World Peace mural tour
The front wall of 440 Jackson Avenue received the 49th mural of Writer’s World Peace Mural Tour, a mural series that can be seen across 42 cities in the U.S. and one in Mexico City.
Public space initiative sparks interest
Last Saturday, local residents danced, ate and socialized at the Metropolitan College of New York on East 149th Street, while celebrating the beginning of a project to bring public spaces to life in the neighborhood.
Internationally acclaimed photographer brings El Barrio to the Bronx
Photographer Joseph Rodriguez’s “El Barrio in the ‘80s,” will be on display at the Bronx Documentary Center until Dec. 23. “The whole bloody Brooklyn was on fire,” recalled Rodriguez, three decades after taking these shots of turmoil in the streets of East Harlem. “All these black men and brown men out there burning stuff down because of what was happening. You grow up with those visions in your head.”
Deadline looms for ‘dreamers’
Permit renewals for DACA recipients will officially terminate in March, as Congress continues to debate action before government funding expires in December.