The Bronx Ink

A man in the Bronx uses recycled materials to harvest the sun’s energy.

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When parade goers and bar hoppers, many in shamrock sunglasses and leprechaun hats, line the streets of Manhattan trying to get a glimpse of the parade, or win St. Patrick’s day T-shirts, a little pocket of down-home revelry takes place in the Northeast Bronx.

About a block away from Yonkers on Katonah Avenue, kids paint their faces green, the Irish musicians of Jameson’s Revenge play the violin and Irish flute, and neighbors and friends celebrate the country they left behind.

“Oh! And I wish I were with the gentle folk, Around a hearthened fire where the fairies dance unseen,” recited Martin Miller outside the Rambling House pub a few days before the St Patrick’s Day celebration. Taking not even a full moment to recall the verse by the Irish nationalist Bobby Sands, Miller, 32, began reciting the poem while successfully lighting his cigarette in the cool wind. The sound of his own words had such a nostalgic quality, they almost brought him to tears. He stopped short, but not from lack of memory.

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After weeks submerged in snow, this week’s mild temperatures have melted most of the leftover ice, forming puddles along the path of Mosholu Parkway South bordering Van Cortlandt Park in Norwood.

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Bronxites gathered Tuesday evening for a night of singing, dancing and celebrating Dominican Heritage Month. More than 600,000 people of Dominican descent live in New York, and the Bronx’s population is about 17 percent Dominican, according to 2009 Census estimates. These numbers are expected to increase in the 2010 Census. With an increasing Dominican presence in the borough, we asked Bronxites why they are proud to be Dominican and the importance of celebrating Dominican Heritage Month.

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Like hundreds of food pantries across New York, Highbridge is facing difficult times. The 2008 recession, and the ensuing period of jobless economic growth has increased the number of people demanding the food pantry’s services. But funds for staffing are scarce and its director says she may have to shut the pantry down in March.

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Frigid temperatures didn’t stop diehard runners from showing up in Van Cortlandt Park on Sunday morning.

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Angry youth fed up with a persistent lack of jobs and scarce educational opportunities spurred the revolution in Egypt. The events in the Middle East made us curious about how the Bronx fares in education, employment and other measurements.

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When you stand in the middle of the Project Room at the Longwood Art Gallery in Hostos Community College in the Bronx, a thread of masculinity can be seen almost everywhere.

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