Workers learn by doing in Project H.I.R.E.
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by Carla Candia.
A brand-new duplex apartment in the University Heights section of the Bronx is ready for inspection. Equipped with bamboo floors, a ceramic kitchen and a spacious bedroom closet that would make more than one New Yorker jealous, it would rent for at least $2,000. Instead it will be demolished. And the construction workers who built [...]
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SoBro gets students ready for green economy
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by Alex Green IV.
The adage “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” is being given new meaning by a group of high school seniors working with SoBRO, the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation. The students are starting a fashion business that will recycle hand-me-down clothing and plastic soda containers to make handbags, pencil holders and change purses. [...]
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Mott Haven co-op preaches gospel of reuse
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by Vishal Persaud.
Sounds of power sanders filled the warehouse of ReBuilder’s Source on Timpson Place on a recent afternoon. They didn’t buzz, they boomed. Six people were at work, two or three times the usual staff at the worker-owned cooperative. ReBuilder’s Source didn’t hire more workers. It was hosting a weeklong training program in cooperation with the [...]
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Mott Haven students learn hurricane’s lessons
Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by Emily Lavin.
While most of their classmates slept in and hung out during their week-long spring break from Mott Haven Village Preparatory High School, Laurin Ellis, 18, was picking up a drill and installing dry wall. Jessica Colon, 17, was taking her very first canoe ride. Joanelly Fermin, 17, was cleaning up parks and helping to build [...]
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Will city pull plug on help for Port Morris business?
Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by Emily Lavin.
The city is moving to eliminate funds for a program to help manufacturing businesses in Port Morris, leaving their proprietors worried that in the midst of an economic downturn they are losing an important source of support. The cuts proposed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg would eliminate the staff members of non-profit organizations who help businesses [...]
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Proposed budget cuts threaten adult education
Posted on 27. May, 2010 by Joe Hirsch.
Pending cuts to the city’s budget threaten to derail long-running adult literacy programs across the five boroughs, taking some of Gotham’s poorest down with them, advocates fear. The Mayor’s proposed budget for 2011 would eliminate over $5 million in funding for adult literacy services, which if combined with the Governor’s proposed $2.6 million reduction, would [...]
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Homeless advocacy group holds rally in Brook Park
Posted on 27. May, 2010 by Joe Hirsch.
The city should be moving people out of homeless shelters and into vacant apartments built during the real estate boom that now stand empty, advocates from the community organization Picture the Homeless said at a rally in Brook Park on May 19. The Morris Avenue-based group chose the anniversary of Malcolm X’s birthday to hold [...]
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Melrose eatery is more than a restaurant
Posted on 26. May, 2010 by Carla Candia.
A Puerto Rican man in his 60s stormed into Coqui Mexicano, the restaurant on Brook and Third Avenues recently. He was offended by eatery’s name. “That is wrong,” he said. “The Coqui is not from Mexico; it is from Puerto Rico.” Indeed, the coqui is a little frog commonly found in Puerto Rico, and the [...]
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A taste of a Mexican city on a Mott Haven street
Posted on 26. May, 2010 by Carla Candia.
Whenever Sabino Sanchez feels homesick, instead of boarding a plane to Puebla, Mexico, he goes to La Fiesta Mexicana in Mott Haven and has a Cemita. The Cemita, a sandwich filled with avocado, chipotle chili, an herb called Papalo, Oaxaca cheese and chicken or meat, is one of the Mexican city’s typical treats.
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Mass Transit Theater brings the streets to the stage
Posted on 23. May, 2010 by Alex Green IV.
Four high school students stand in a line, complaining about how their school treated them. “Any morning when you get off the bus, you can find zillions of police vans around your school,” says one, “and 60 or 70 extra cops setting up temporary scanners, and all the students in long lines trying to get [...]
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