On a Wednesday morning in October, the sound of children playing filled the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center, a non-profit organization in the Bronx. Classrooms were filled with dozens of students while strollers lined the sides of the building. Staff members cooked in the kitchen getting the next meal ready for families that may be struggling […]
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Non-Profit Community Center in Kingsbridge Needs $2 million in Repairs
Posted on 18 October 2022.
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Remaining Quonset Hut Serves as a Reminder of Current New York City Housing Crisis
Posted on 18 October 2022.
In the midst of New York City’s housing crisis, in which Mayor Eric Adams has initiated the construction of a tent city for over 10,000 migrants, a huge silver-colored dome-shaped hut made of rigid steel sits between Rosedale and Metcalf — in the middle of Seward Avenue — in Soundview. It’s a reminder that the […]
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Residents Voice Concerns Over Planned School and Housing Development
Posted on 17 September 2022.
Bronx residents voiced concerns Tuesday, over a proposed development that would include a new school and apartment complex at the site of the former Church of the Visitation at the first in-person Community Board 8 meeting since the pandemic. Tishman Speyer, a real estate investment firm, purchased part of the former site of the Church […]
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Families Suffer Under City-Led Housing Subsidy
Posted on 22 October 2019.
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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A different kind of corner store: A story of surviving homelessness
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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Domestic violence and housing linked to homicides in the South East Bronx
Posted on 15 October 2018.
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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Mott Haven Dog Boutique Challenges Traditional Gentrification Narrative
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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Protesters Denounce Majora Carter’s Wealth Protection Plan for Hunts Point Homeowners
Posted on 08 September 2018.
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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