
City honors Hunts Point slave memorial ground
The city’s parks department has installed four new park signs at Joseph Rodman Drake Park
The city’s parks department has installed four new park signs at Joseph Rodman Drake Park
Justin Czarka, a school teacher at Public School 48 on Spofford Avenue, reached into a
Earlier this month the New York City Council recognized PS 48’s Grammy-winning music teacher with a special proclamation for her contributions to Hunts Point youth.
Hunts Point and Longwood have the lowest enrollment in pre-kindergarten classes of any neighborhood in the five boroughs, despite having the greatest need to reverse historically low education rates.
PS 48 put on a show for schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, who came to help the school celebrate a special anniversary.
Students from PS 48 are teaming with the NYC Food Bank to provide meals to local families. Hunts Point is a hot spot for the “meal gap,” the number of meals families are forced to miss due to poverty.
The prospects for PS 48’s lauded music program appeared bleak before the famous talk show host came to the rescue.
Students at a Hunts Point elementary school have discovered a long-forgotten slave burial ground.
PAL Thanksgiving is a feast to remember Thanksgiving came early at PS 48. Friends and