Nia Jeanty, 14, had not been seen since Friday morning, according to her mother.
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Missing girl returns home, police say
Posted on 08 February 2011.
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Fueling the Future
Posted on 08 February 2011.
As his arms reach deeper into the canister outside of a pizzeria in Morris Park, Jean Joachim looks away. “Sometimes you see dead rats,” he says. “Not at this restaurant though- they’re pretty good with the oil.” Joachim, a service technician works for Tri-State Biodiesel (TSB), a green energy start-up that collects used cooking oil from restaurants and converts it into biodiesel.
On Wednesday night, Joachim and his manager, Andrew McCloud are harvesting oilcans from Patricia’s. Famous for their brick oven pizza and Tuscan-style fare, the family-owned restaurant also dishes out a healthy serving of grease, 70 gallons a week to be exact. Not to its customers of course, but to TSB, which collects it for free and ships it to a refinery where it gets transformed into biodiesel.
To prevent restaurants from dumping oil into kitchen sinks, New York City requires businesses to install a mechanism to collect grease and provide proof of regular waste disposal through an outside collection service. Restaurants that do not adhere to the rules properly can be fined up to $10,000. [more..]
Posted in East Bronx, The Bronx Beat1 Comment
Local artist captures borough’s “hidden stories”
Posted on 06 February 2011.
By April Warren
Growing up in the Kingsbridge and Fordham sections of the Bronx during the late 1960s wasn’t always easy for Carol Sun, the daughter of immigrants from Shanghai. Street fighting and name calling often reminded her that not too many of her neighbors shared her Asian-American ancestry.
“There was a lot of racism, a lot of people had a lot of hostility because of the Vietnam War,” said Sun, 52, an art teacher at the Bronx High School for the Visual Arts, explaining her Chinese background was sometimes mistaken for Vietnamese. “It was kind of intense, but I survived my childhood.”
Sun, an artist in her own right, uses images from her childhood in her art. [more..]
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Garifuna teens to honor culture at Bronx pageant
Posted on 05 February 2011.
Almost a dozen young women came out for a preview event for this year’s Miss Garifuna Cultural Pageant in the Bronx.
Posted in Culture, Front Page, Rituals, Southern Bronx1 Comment
Sen. Diaz and wife blast Bronx abortion rate
Posted on 04 February 2011.
Senator Ruben Diaz, a Pentecostal minister, held a meeting this week at a church in South Bronx to discuss abstinence.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Politics, Southern Bronx0 Comments
Ice, ice baby!
Posted on 03 February 2011.
Tuesday night’s ice storm left much of Riverdale frozen. Here are a few snapshots of an icy recovery Wednesday morning.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Front Page1 Comment
With his new school, a Bronx pediatrician looks for another way to keep kids healthy
Posted on 20 December 2010.
A look at the man behind the new Health & Science Charter School in Morrisania.
Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Life, Bronx Neighborhoods, Education, Front Page, Southern Bronx0 Comments
Mexican immigrants celebrate the Virgin Mary
Posted on 20 December 2010.
Mexican immigrants in the South Bronx gather to celebrate the Virgin Mary.
Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Life, Bronx Neighborhoods, Culture, Front Page, Multimedia, Southern Bronx0 Comments