Local Centennian's receiving gifts in celebration of their 100 years of life at St. Patrick's Home on Tuesday. This afternoon, St. Patrick's Home for the Aged and Infirmed, located right off of Mosholu Parkway, celebrated the lives of 13 residents who either turned triple digits or have surged right past the century mark.…
NYC Strategic Alliance for Health (SAH) has awarded P.S. 8 Isaac Varian School, P.S. 51 Bronx New School and P.S. 246 Poe Center for their efforts “to improve the environments, systems, and policies that influence physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco use within schools and the broader community”. The initiative to improve the well-being of…
Children take advantage of "Play Me, I'm Yours" and the shade at Sackerah Woods Playground Shaded under the open-aired municipal facilities at Sackerah Woods Playground, in Van Cortlandt Park's southeastern corner, sits a curiously inviting blue and green piano. The piano's creative aesthetic is accompanied by an open invitation: "Play Me, I'm Yours,"…
Fire Department officials have launched an internal probe after an image of President Obama, painted on a toolbox
The Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant is designed to handle 60 million gallons of sewage per day.
Photo by: Marc Fader
Projects to upgrade a sewage plant and construct a cement facility open the next chapter in a complex—and controversial—industrial history.
By: Jake Mooney
The Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant has stood on Staten Island's North Shore,…
For young people born without that proverbial silver Spoon in their mouths, New York City has never been An easy place to grow up. It’s a tough love kind of city.For every person who has described a rather idyllic Childhood in old New York, there are many more who Remember a harsher one, going as…
The 13-year-old was a middle school student. He lived in Washington Heights. He wrote in his journal that he wanted to die by putting a plastic bag over his head. School-based health counselors contacted his guardian and referred him to an emergency room. He’s in counseling now, and alive. Score one for the city’s mental…
The woman sweeping floors at the McDonald’s on 204th Street had gray hair tracing her temples, and her colleague at the register looked to be at least 50. Down at the Micky-Ds on Fordham Road, the woman making french fries could have been a grandmother, and she was not the oldest one behind the counter.…
Times Square. In its colorful and danger-filled heyday of the 1970s and ’80s, porn shops, drug pushers, prostitutes and pistol-toting stickup men were the price of admission. But the venue has been a tourist-friendly commercial strip for some 15 years. In early April, for few minutes, that changed.On Easter night, a series of brawls and…