Tag: Mott Haven

FreshDirect, Operation Move Along, And The South Bronx Waterfront: Yes, They Are Related

This week, Mayor De Blasio’s ambitious plan to reduce pedestrian fatalities, Vision Zero, began in the Bronx with Operation Move Along on 138th Street (between Third and Jackson Avenues) by cracking down on double parking. Officers from the 40th precinct slapped educational flyers on double parked cars but on March 16th they will begin issuing summonses for illegally parked vehicles.

The East 138th Street corridor is one of the South Bronx’s busiest roads with trucks and traffic already roaring across it to get from one end of the borough to the other.

1st Annual Bronx Gentrification Conference This Saturday December 7th

Gentrification is a very controversial topic which brings out a lot of passionate opinions both in favor and against gentrification.

The question of whether the South Bronx, particularly Melrose, Mott Haven, Port Morris, and the Lower Concourse, will ever gentrify is no longer the correct one. The question is when.

Bronx Mural of The Day: Graffiti Artists How & Nosm With Aryz

Sometimes I like to change things up a bit and I’ll take a different route during my walks through my neighborhood and the Bronx.

In doing so I usually stumble upon the beauty that is right in my neighborhood waiting to be discovered.