Posted on 22 October 2019. Tags: CITYFEPS, CITYFHEPS, Evictions, family, Housing Court, HRA, Morris Heights, welfare
Laura Collar fidgeted in place outside the fourth-floor courtroom in the Bronx Housing court on a Friday morning in September. The 34-year-old tenant waited to inform her landlord’s lawyer that she’d been granted another 12 days extension before they evict her from the Morris Heights apartment in the West Bronx where she lives with her […]
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Housing, Housing injustice FHEPS
Posted on 17 October 2019.
On March 13, 2005 Luis Rodriguez got up in the early hours of Sunday morning to catch the subway from the St. Lawrence Avenue Station near his Morissania home to travel to Pelham Bay for a fishing trip on his day off. The then-35-year-old HVAC technician and father of two was standing on the edge […]
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Posted in Money, Morrisania
Posted on 15 October 2019. Tags: Department of Education, Education, education policy, gifted and talented
A recommendation that Mayor Bill de Blasio phase out all New York City gifted programs has left the fate of gifted education in the Bronx uncertain. If implemented, the programs, which are comprised predominantly of black and Latino students, would come to an end.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, East Bronx, Education, Education, Featured, Front Page
Posted on 15 October 2019. Tags: acupuncture, drug addiction, Lincoln Hospital, Mott Haven, New York, nyc health and hospitals, South Bronx
The Mott Haven Lincoln Recovery Center was once a popular therapeutic refuge for drug addicts, but where have the patients gone?
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Posted in Bronx Life, Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Featured, Health, Mental Health, south bronx, Southern Bronx
Posted on 14 October 2019. Tags: 15th District, 2020, congress, Hunts Point, Jose Serrano, U.S. House of Representatives
Known as the moral compass of Bronx politics, Serrano is set to retire from Congress after 44 years of serving the borough.
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Posted in Community Resources, Front Page, Politics, south bronx, Southern Bronx
Posted on 13 October 2019. Tags: barber, barbershops, church, Health Care, health outreach, health problems, HIV, HIV/AIDS, Hunts Point, Morrisania, Mott Haven, South Bronx
While New York celebrates declining HIV rates, healthcare advocates in the Bronx narrow their focus to where services aren’t reaching people.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Featured, Front Page, Health, south bronx, Southern Bronx
Posted on 13 October 2019. Tags: Acacia Network, Bronx, Criminal Justice, criminal justice reform, Crossroads Juvenile Center, Hall of Justice, Horizon Juvenile Center, juvenile justice, Raise the Age, Rikers
One Bronx teen is spared the lasting consequences of being tried as an adult and held in Rikers as New York City’s juvenile justice system undergoes massive, structural changes.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Crime, Prison
Posted on 13 October 2019. Tags: Addiction, feature, health, homelessness, opioid crisis, suboxone
Prescriptions of life-saving buprenorphine lag in the Bronx. A legacy of bureaucracy and stigma are to blame.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Featured, Health, Mental Health