While lawmakers in Albany have yet to come to an agreement on a state budget for the next fiscal year—despite being nearly three months past deadline—the New York City Council…
An electric delivery truck is being hailed by Hunts Point advocates who hope it's only the beginning of curbing truck emissions in the asthma-prone area. In 2008, a similar vehicle…
Yesterday, the Daily News featured opposing viewpoints on the living wage issue in its op-ed pages. Take a look here and here and tell us, and your fellow BxNN readers,…
Organizers were dismayed when the city shut down a public viewing of the United States vs. Ghana World Cup match on Saturday afternoon at Lou Gehrig Park, just blocks from…
The first crop has come in at the vegetable garden created by teens in The Point Community Development Corp.'s ACTION program. Fifty heads of freshly-picked lettuce will go to the…
Last Monday, 40 kindergartners, most of whom are in the child welfare system, graduated from their class at the Mott Haven Academy Charter School, a charter school sponsored by The…
Photo Credit: Marcus Yam/The New York Times The New York Times has a short video feature about the new South Bronx farm share, which was created by Dennis Derryk,…
Last week, just as the weather was getting warmer, a new green cart debuted in Bedford Park on the corner of Grand Concourse and Bedford Park Blvd. It seems…