Karen Young-Washington, an urban farmer from The Bronx has just won $10,000 in a national voting contest held by NationSwell to help further the work her organization, Rise and Root Farm.
An AllStar Award Nominee favorite, Karen has been one of the local pioneers and leaders in urban farming in our communities serving as a role model which everyone in our borough can look up to.
What do you do if the person you thought was helping you keep your home was in fact taking it right from under your feet?
Sometimes Bronx homeowners and families find themselves in desperate situations whether due to a bleak economic downturn or health issues both which can lead to unemployment or underemployment.
This leaves this segment of the population vulnerable to predators from all sides who will claim to help save your home but in reality are conspiring to take it away from you.
The New York Times has published a special report on the never ending scam of shell companies which promise the world to desperate homeowners and without the homeowner realizing, their homes are taken away from them.
After over 2 decades of community fighting tooth and nail to get a proper connection to Randall’s Island constructed, the time for its grand opening has come this Saturday, November 14th!
Although it was scheduled to be open at some point this past summer, we were warned that it could (and it was) delayed due to many testings needed to be done to ensure safe pedestrian access as well as train passage.
In an act of civil disobedience, The Bronx has struck back against the disgusting billboard…
The Point CDC in Hunts Point never disappoints and is not afraid of speaking up…
Our Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr must think that the public isn’t watching, paying…
Bally’s gambling complex proposal at the former Trump Links in Throggs Neck relies on getting state approval to alienate parkland, but lacks local leaders’ support as the legislative session winds down. By…
Thanks to Ed Morales, investigative journalist and Columbia University professor, we have found out that Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr is already receiving campaign contributions from Keith Rubenstein, one of the developers of the “Piano District” as well as one of the hosts behind last week’s tasteless gentrification Halloween party. Shocking? Not in the…
The Daily News just released an exclusive report on how some affordable tenants are paying high rents—something we’ve been saying all along how “affordable housing” isn’t truly affordable.
Just this year Courtlandt Corners, an “affordable housing” development in Melrose (built by Phipps) began calling one of their buildings The Upton in a media campaign that would pop up in online ads calling it “affordable luxury”.
“Nearly half of the affordable apartment tenants in a new survey say they’re now spending more than 30% of their income on rent — a level considered “rent-burdened.”
A stunning 14% say they’re spending more than 50% of their income on rent, which makes them “severely rent-burdened.”
The findings emerge in a report to be released Wednesday by the housing advocates Real Affordability for All.
The Area Code Universe and Your Sense of Place: Are You a 212, 718,or 646 Person?
We are a species of belonging, of being part of place, of having a sense of identity based on that place. The place most closely associated with that sense of belonging is home. Be it ever so humble there is no place like it. Click your heels three times and you are there. Can it be that easy?
This issue of area code identity first arose back in 1984 in New York City. Once upon a time 212 encompassed the entire city of all five boroughs. Then one’s sense of belonging to the city was shattered with the introduction of a new code, 718, for Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. As reported in the New York Times (February 15, 1984), following the public announcement, all hell broke loose.
Joseph Chetrit of The Chetrit Group and one of the developers behind the attempt at rebranding Port Morris into the Piano District (as they are scheduled to develop six 25 market-rate luxury towers) and last week’s disastrous and tasteless gentrification party is being sued for allegedly helping a group launder $40 million. According to Bloomberg:…
The South Bronx Farmers Market located at E 138th Street at Alexander Avenue right next to St. Jerome’s in Mott Haven, which started operating last year, has just been awarded United States Department of Agriculture grant of $40,717.13!
This is amazing and a testament to the hard work the community has put into making sure there is access to healthy foods in our neighborhood as well as connect our communities with our local farmers.
Today is a critical day as it is election day and if we really want to change how things operate here in The Bronx, it must begin with your vote.
You may think that your vote doesn’t matter but it does ESPECIALLY in local elections such as ours.
