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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Families Suffer Under City-Led Housing Subsidy
Posted on 22 October 2019.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Housing, Housing injustice FHEPS0 Comments
Struck By a Subway 14 Years Ago, Still Waiting for Justice
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 […]
Posted in Money, Morrisania0 Comments
The Future of Gifted Education in the Bronx
Posted on 15 October 2019.
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.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, East Bronx, Education, Education, Featured, Front Page0 Comments
Bronx acupuncture center for addiction fighting to survive
Posted on 15 October 2019.
The Mott Haven Lincoln Recovery Center was once a popular therapeutic refuge for drug addicts, but where have the patients gone?
Posted in Bronx Life, Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Featured, Health, Mental Health, south bronx, Southern Bronx0 Comments
The lasting legacy of U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano
Posted on 14 October 2019.
Known as the moral compass of Bronx politics, Serrano is set to retire from Congress after 44 years of serving the borough.
Posted in Community Resources, Front Page, Politics, south bronx, Southern Bronx0 Comments
How HIV outreach is tackling an “invisible crisis” in The Bronx
Posted on 13 October 2019.
While New York celebrates declining HIV rates, healthcare advocates in the Bronx narrow their focus to where services aren’t reaching people.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Featured, Front Page, Health, south bronx, Southern Bronx0 Comments
Raise the Age law at work transforming youth’s futures
Posted on 13 October 2019.
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.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Crime, Prison0 Comments
Prescriptions lag as Bronx battles opioid epidemic
Posted on 13 October 2019.
Prescriptions of life-saving buprenorphine lag in the Bronx. A legacy of bureaucracy and stigma are to blame.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Featured, Health, Mental Health0 Comments