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 2018.
Dennis Pentier, a 48 year-old Jamaican immigrant, has been homeless here in New York City for the past eight years. Ejected from a city shelter, he survives day to day from his makeshift outdoor shop on a block in the Tremont neighborhood that he currently calls home.
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Blog, Bronx Neighborhoods, Bronx Tales, Community Resources, Culture, Featured, Housing, Morrisania, Morrisania, North Central Bronx, Politics, The Bronx Beat, Unemployment by the numbers
Posted on 15 October 2018. Tags: Domestic homicide, Homicide
There have been five domestic homicides in the South East Bronx this year. Last year there were none. Experts point to high unemployment and rising rents in the borough.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Crime, Featured, Front Page, Housing, Money, Police
Posted on 23 September 2018.
A Mott Haven pet store joins the crop of new small businesses popping up along Mott Haven’s southern waterfront.
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Community Resources, Featured, Housing, Southern Bronx
Posted on 08 September 2018. Tags: Bronx, Community Land Trusts, Hunts Point, Majora Carter, Majora Carter Group, South Bronx, Take Back the Bronx, The Bronx
Protesters gathered outside a meeting that Majora Carter hosted with non-profit lenders and homeowners. Protesters accused Carter of displacing Hunts Point residents, promoting her long-held mission she calls “self-gentrification.”
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Featured, Housing, Southern Bronx
Posted on 18 October 2016.
New York City may guarantee free legal counsel for low income tenants facing eviction. The Right to Counsel Bill introduced by Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson and Councilman Mark Levine in order to counter the increasing homelessness in the city is steadily gaining traction in the City Council.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Featured, Housing, Politics, Video
Posted on 27 October 2014.
Mott Haven’s Narco Freedom executives are charged with pilfering medicaid funds, while clients languish in their sober homes under poor conditions
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Featured, Health, Housing
Posted on 22 September 2014. Tags: community, community outreach, housing, Hunts Point, the laundromat project
Residents gathered at 924 Kelly Street garden on Saturday to celebrate Field Day, organized by the Laundromat Project, partaking in a variety of activities.
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Posted in Featured, Housing, Southern Bronx