Community gardens brace for new rules

Community gardens brace for new rules

Posted on 04. Aug, 2010 by Joe Hirsch.

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Mott Haven and Melrose are home to about two-dozen community gardens, lovingly tended green spaces tended by residents, who plant and harvest food and flowers, play music, exercise or simply kick back under stately shade trees. With names like United We Stand, La Finca del Sur and La Casa de Chema, some recall the Puerto [...]

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In the news, August 1-7

Posted on 01. Aug, 2010 by editor.

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The work of the renowned architect C.B.J. Snyder, best known for his work on public schools, will be discussed by researcher Jean Arrington. The free lecture is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, August 18 at p.m. at the Mott Haven Library, 321 E. 140th St. off Alexander Ave, and is sponsored by the Bronx [...]

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In the news, July 26-August 1

In the news, July 26-August 1

Posted on 26. Jul, 2010 by editor.

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Beginning a string of three homicides in seven days, 18-year-old Troynisha Harris was killed by a man who jumped from a Lincoln Town Car and plunged a knife into her neck on July 24. Harris and a friend were sitting on a stoop on 166th Street at 3:30 a.m. when the attacker struck. When Harris’s [...]

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In the news, July 12-18

Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by editor.

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A new initiative hopes to bring the Bronx into the Internet age, providing high speed Internet access to 400,000 households in the borough. The Bronx lags the other boroughs in broadband access to the web, and poor neighborhoods lag wealthier ones. Only 58 percent of Bronx residents have a computer at home compared to more [...]

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In the news, July 6-11

Posted on 07. Jul, 2010 by editor.

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The farmer’s market at La Finca del Sur will open this Saturday, July 10, from 10-1. The mid-summer Farm Fest is July 31. Nineteen-year-old Mavon Chapman was gunned down on 149th Street and Morris Avenue and died of his head wound before he could be treated at Lincoln Hospital a block away. A school focused [...]

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In the news, June 28-July 4

Posted on 28. Jun, 2010 by editor.

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A baby hawk fell from the family nest on an air conditioner in the Hub. Mott Haven resident Lee Rivera called in Friends of Brook Park, which rescued the bird. It will be rehabilitated and released into the wild. Is a large, suburban-style supermarket in Mott Haven’s future? The city Economic Development Corp. has just [...]

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In the news, June 21-28

Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by editor.

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A Book Fair on the sidewalk in front of the Bronx Museum on the Grand Concourse at 165th Street this weekend has been organized to call attention to the absence of bookstores in the Bronx. The fair, on Sunday, June 27, from noon-5 p.m., will feature books, magazines and comics, along with authors and artists. [...]

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In the news, June 13-20

In the news, June 13-20

Posted on 17. Jun, 2010 by editor.

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Friends of Brook Park is looking for volunteers to check on the new street trees it has planted in Mott Haven and Port Morris. Hip-hop and Afro-Latin dance are on the agenda of St. Mary’s Park, with performances on June 25 and 26 at 7 p.m. and a family day celebration at noon on June [...]

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Green jobs, green city: a special report

Posted on 06. Jun, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.

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The economy may be recovering, but you wouldn’t know it in Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris, where, officially, one of every five adults is unemployed, a number that overlooks many undocumented immigrants and ignores those who have given up on looking for work or taken part-time jobs because they can’t find full-time employment. But [...]

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Can $4 million paint Mott Haven green?

Can $4 million paint Mott Haven green?

Posted on 06. Jun, 2010 by Nick Loomis.

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Chances are you’ve heard it all before. • New York’s 16th Congressional District, which includes Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris, is the poorest in the country. • The Bronx has the highest unemployment rate in New York at 14.1%, and unemployment is worse still in the South Bronx. • The area is home to [...]

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