Twenty-eight percent of residents in East Tremont and Morrisania have no bank accounts. One Bronx high school teacher believes cryptocurrency may be the answer.
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Cryptocurrency Comes to The Bronx
Posted on 18 September 2019.
Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Neighborhoods, Featured, Money, Morrisania, Morrisania, south bronx, Southern Bronx0 Comments
Mentors key to getting kids to school in the Bronx
Posted on 17 October 2018.
One in three kids miss too much school in the South Bronx, and the rate climbs to one in two as students reach their senior year — a new mentorship program aims to reduce chronic absenteeism by paring caring adults, who check-in daily, with absent students.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Education, Morrisania, Southern Bronx0 Comments
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.
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 numbers0 Comments
Saving Stray Cats in Morrisania
Posted on 17 September 2018.
An overpopulation of feral cats have been a long-term headache in the Bronx. Edith Georgia, 65, volunteers to save the lives of more than 25 stray cats in her Morrisania neighborhood.
Posted in Bronx Life, Bronx Neighborhoods, Featured, Health, Morrisania, Morrisania2 Comments
Bronx Street Art Speaks Many Languages
Posted on 15 September 2016.
International artists have been painting street murals in the Bronx, tapping into the borough’s history of creative expression.
Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, Morrisania, Southern Bronx0 Comments
With Few Watching, Assembly Race Nears Finish Line
Posted on 07 September 2014.
Severe political disengagement in this district has allowed an intriguing race for state office to be met largely with shrugs.
Posted in Featured, Morrisania, Morrisania, Politics0 Comments
Sounding Off On Stop and Frisk
Posted on 16 October 2012.
Bronx Ink reporters fanned out over 12 neighborhoods last week to capture the stories and thoughts from Bronx residents about law enforcement tactics.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Crime, Featured, Morrisania, Multimedia, North Central Bronx, Northwest Bronx, Sizing up Stop and Frisk, Southern Bronx, Special Reports2 Comments
Cuevas Family Faces Robbery Suspects In Court
Posted on 21 September 2012.
The Cuevas family of the innocent bodega worker who was shot and killed by an NYPD officer faced the robbery suspects charged with his death at the Bronx Criminal Court.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Crime, Morrisania, Morrisania0 Comments