Posted on 27 October 2012.
Hunts point is home to the second-largest installation of panels that collect energy from the sun, NY Daily News reports. The panels were installed by the local company OnForce Solar, which was named one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. More solar panels are cropping up around New York City thanks to new subsidies […]
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Posted on 27 October 2012. Tags: Bronx, Cultural Brokers, Diaspora Clinic, Dodi Meyer, Mali, West Africa
Before the Diaspora Clinic opened, health workers at the Martin Luther King Hospital found that many patients who speak minority languages ended up in emergency rooms.
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Posted in Bronx Life, Featured, Health, Southern Bronx
Posted on 27 October 2012.
Fans of the late Arsenio Rodriguez keep his music alive on the streets of Longwood
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods
Posted on 26 October 2012. Tags: college, Education, graduation, High School
Only 13 percent of the neighborhood’s high school students are ready to go to college when they graduate.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Education, Featured, Southern Bronx
Posted on 26 October 2012.
A long-neglected Mount Hope community garden has been giving a makeover this summer, DNA Info reports. Volunteers from the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, a neighborhood advocacy group, worked to restore the space and create a vegetable garden.
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Posted on 25 October 2012. Tags: budget, clinic, funding, health, highbridge, mental health, schools
Astor at Highbridge, a mental health clinic for children and adolescents in the Highbridge section of the Bronx, will lose three-quarters of its funding from New York State by next year.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Health, Southern Bronx
Posted on 25 October 2012. Tags: Bronx religions, Innocence of Muslims, Islam, Islamic Education in the Bronx, Muslims, religion, youtube
In a borough where Islam is the fastest-growing religion, Muslims in the Bronx want a more nuanced view on their faith.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Culture, Multimedia
Posted on 25 October 2012. Tags: Community Garden, Education, Farmer's market, Fordham, fordham university, health, health department, Part of the Solution, The Bronx
A student transformed abandoned land at Fordham University into an on-campus farm, offering fresh organic vegetables to both Fordham students and residents in the Bronx.
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Posted in Bronx Life, Bronx Neighborhoods, Culture, Education, Food, Health, Multimedia, North Central Bronx, Slideshows, The Bronx Beat