Posted on 17 October 2019.
On March 13, 2005 Luis Rodriguez got up in the early hours of Sunday morning to catch the subway from the St. Lawrence Avenue Station near his Morissania home to travel to Pelham Bay for a fishing trip on his day off. The then-35-year-old HVAC technician and father of two was standing on the edge […]
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Posted in Money, Morrisania
Posted on 12 October 2019. Tags: Featured, Food, food stamps, highbridge, home health aides, homer care, Nurses, policy
For low-income workers like Elsilia Carrasco, food stamps are essential to help feed her family. Cuts have already posed hardships. And they are about to get worse.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Featured, Food, Money
Posted on 18 September 2019. Tags: ATMs, banking, BankNote Building, cash alternatives, cryptocurrency, immigration, Morrisania, South Bronx
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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Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Neighborhoods, Featured, Money, Morrisania, Morrisania, south bronx, Southern Bronx
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 13 October 2018.
The new MTA chief pledges to fast forward plans to make NYC subway stations accessible to the disabled. In the Bronx, a full 83 percent violate federal law. “We are one of the least accessible cities in the country,” Susan Dooha, disabled advocacy group director.
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Life, Community Resources, Featured, Money, North Central Bronx, Northwest Bronx, The Bronx Beat, Transportation
Posted on 19 October 2016. Tags: Bronx, Flower design, immigration, Mexico, Soundview, South Bronx
Without proper immigration paperwork and no previous experience in flower design, this Bronx entrepreneur beats all odds by opening her own flower shop and restarting her life for the third time.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Featured, Money, Politics, Southern Bronx
Posted on 13 October 2014. Tags: brand, Bronx, image, startup
The Bronx has an image problem. Local artists and entrepreneurs are building businesses and organizing events to make sure the world knows that it is, in fact, no longer burning.
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, Money
Posted on 23 October 2012. Tags: Bronx, Bronx Puerto Rican Day Parade, Community Board #9, Francisco Gonzalez, IRS, Nonprofit, Taxes
Recent changes to tax rules for nonprofits have led 280,000 charities to lose their nonprofit status across the nation. In the Bronx, small, local organizations were the ones hit the hardest.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Money