The Bronx roars for housing rights
“Whose Bronx?” “Our Bronx!” “Whose Bronx?” “Our Bronx!” The chant repeated six times, with rising decibels each time, from the 160 residents seated in the BronxWorks gym last week for…
“Whose Bronx?” “Our Bronx!” “Whose Bronx?” “Our Bronx!” The chant repeated six times, with rising decibels each time, from the 160 residents seated in the BronxWorks gym last week for…
New York City Housing Authority residents and activists want state lawmakers to fund a rent relief program in the state’s annual budget that would go towards paying the estimated $466…
A developer plans to renovate a row house in the Mott Haven historic district and build a four-story addition to it on an adjacent empty lot. Joshua Dardashtian, a principal…
Housing lawyers expected an avalanche of eviction filings as soon as New York’s pandemic eviction moratorium expired last January. The reality is quite different. The number of eviction filings over…
New York City’s move to sustainable energy is here – and it’s knocking on the door of NYCHA residences. At Jackson Houses in Melrose, Adam’s European Contracting and Buffalo Geothermal…
One evening outside Mitchel Houses, Donna Jackson walked up a ramp with her walker when she saw a familiar terrifying creature – a rat — huddled in a corner. It…
The Magna Carta. The US Constitution. Common Sense by Thomas Payne. The Origin of Species by Natural Selection by Charles Darwin. Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi. The…
On a rainy afternoon in late June 2020, the residents of 387 138th Street in Mott Haven were down on their luck. Outside on the wet streets, economic life had…