From the editor: A school the neighborhood needs
Three decades ago, Hunts Point was the location of an adventure so visionary and so
Year: 2009
Offered a Hunts Point home, school needs city’s OK
The proposal calls for students to graduate with both a high school diploma and an industry-recognized employment certifications in such fields as green roofing, urban agribusiness, natural resource maintenance, recycling, brown field remediation or hazardous waste cleanup.
For the Bronx, some federal funding isn’t what it seems
An examination of federal records posted on the government website recovery.gov shows that millions of dollars of Recovery Act funding that has been reported as being used to stimulate the Bronx is not actually new money, and other funding attributed to the Bronx is not being used in the borough at all.
Stimulus funds are hard obtain and late to be spent
By Joseph Gallagher josephtgallagher@gmail.com Some of the federal stimulus money from the American Recovery and
Cooks learn healthy eating one recipe at a time
By Vishal Persaud vishal.persaud@journalism.cuny.edu Two large purple eggplants lay on a small wooden cutting board,
Mural celebrates Hunts Point and its women
Sasha Wortzel Sasha.wortzel@gmail.com On Hunts Point Avenue, a smiling woman in green pulls a fresh
Bronx Charter School turns to public for funds
By Justyna Malota jmalota@hunter.cuny.edu A metropolis was rising from the floor of a Kindergarten class
School community chips in to help
Relatively affluent web surfers aren’t the only contributors to Bronx Charter School for the Arts.