The coalition’s goal is to prevent obesity and diabetes, two familiar scourges in the neighborhood.

As the eyes of the nation turn to a troubling wave of opioid addiction in rural and suburban communities, residents of the South Bronx are asking what took them so long.

I was assigned to cover heroin use in Mott Haven. As a reporter I’m responsible for learning the ins and outs of the “beat,” the neighborhood and the people that call it home.

According to one officer, hand-to-hand business is vintage, and the “dead drop”—leaving money in one place and drugs in another separately, is the present—and the future.

Last year, more people died from drug overdoses in the Bronx, the fourth most populous of New York’s five boroughs, than in any other.

Juan sleeps on the streets and keeps his possessions in a shopping cart with an ominous mask tied to the front. He stands gaunt and his hands are ashen, thick with muscle. When Mott Haven’s out-of-sight drug den, The Hole, closed in May, Juan found his way, along with manyRead More

Destination Tomorrow, a trans-organization based on Third Avenue in Mott Haven, has announced plans to construct an LGBTQ Center in Melrose this year.