Renters eagerly await affordable housing
The mayor’s plan to build 80,000 affordable apartments is badly needed, say residents, but sky-high demand and median income guidelines have some worried they won’t be able to take advantage.
Joyce Campbell-Culler
Longwood fire leaves about 20 homeless
A three-alarm fire erupted around 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8 in a five-story building at 955 East 163rd Street in Longwood, damaging many of the apartments and leaving close to 20 residents homeless.
Planned marijuana dispensary divides Hunts Point
A company that specializes in selling medical marijuana is slated to open a dispensary in Hunts Point on Jan. 1 2016, worrying some residents that it will bring back with it the kinds of vice and crime the community has been fighting for decades.
Urban farm coming to Hunts Point
The city has granted Tanya Fields, executive director of the BLK Projek, permission to open an urban farm on a city-owned lot at Simpson and Barretto streets—until they find a developer interested in building there.
P.S. 48 parents say bullying must stop
Over a dozen worried parents attended a meeting at Bright Temple AME Church on May 31, to discuss what they say is a serious bullying problem their children face at P.S. 48.
Overhaul planned for Msgr. Del Valle Square
City asks residents to help imagine a remake City officials told Community Board 2 at
Competition to replace Spofford jail begins
In the year since Bridges Juvenile Center was decommissioned, the hulking building surrounded by barbed