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3 weeks ago | 
huntspointexpress.com | Joe Hirsch
When Jennifer Sanchez moves into her renovated Beck Street apartment - hopefully in a few months - her newborn daughter will become the fourth generation of women in her family to live there.
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3 weeks ago | 
motthavenherald.com | Joe Hirsch
Eneida Cardona was hard at work preparing the fellowship issue of the journal Nueva Luz for En Foco. Suddenly, Cardona, alongside other non-profit art institutions in the Bronx, received a devastating email. A vital federal grant had been pulled from underneath them. En Foco, a non-profit art organization and photo gallery in Mott Haven, supports and amplifies the work of African, Asian, Latino, Native American, and Pacific Islander photographers.
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3 weeks ago | 
motthavenherald.com | Joe Hirsch
Brian McFadden has owned Bee’s Famous Barbershop on East 138th Street and Cypress Avenue for 29 years. His shop sits a few blocks away from where New York City plans to build a new jail, one of four borough sites in development to complete its plan to close Rikers Island. “Why here?” McFaden asked in an interview with The Mott Haven Herald. “How about some libraries? Maybe a park. We have a men’s shelter on the block. So now, across from the men’s shelter, they are going to put a jail.
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3 weeks ago | 
motthavenherald.com | Joe Hirsch
Special Project: Aftershocks The Bronx didn’t elect Donald Trump, but it will see the effect of his policies in everything from diminished clean air standards to more aggressive immigration enforcement. Read more>
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1 month ago | 
motthavenherald.com | Joe Hirsch
After introducing a chemical-industry backed plastic waste bill to the New York State Assembly in January, Assemblywoman Chantel Jackson held an online briefing to discuss how her proposed legislation would work.
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1 month ago | 
motthavenherald.com | Joe Hirsch
From tariffs to public safety concerns, small business owners in the South Bronx face struggles to stay open. Small businesses in the South Bronx’s Hub are facing rising import costs as a result of new U.S. tariffs and mounting economic uncertainty, threatening the stability of the commercial corridor.
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1 month ago | 
motthavenherald.com | Joe Hirsch
Voters in the South Bronx will head to the polls on June 24th to help shape the future of their communities in elections for Borough President and two City Council seats. This year’s council races are the most competitive in years because the powerful incumbents, Rafael Salamanca Jr. and Diana Ayala, are term limited. Many of the candidates are running on platforms emphasizing housing, jobs, safety, equity and the youth in their campaigns. We’ll continue to cover those issues.
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1 month ago | 
motthavenherald.com | Joe Hirsch
Kaliris Salas, a longtime East Harlem resident, was scrolling through Instagram when she saw a post that stopped her cold. Next, she filed a complaint with New York City’s Campaign Finance Board. “I’m like, wait, hold up. They’re doing food distributions with palm cards?” Salas recalled thinking.
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1 month ago | 
motthavenherald.com | Joe Hirsch
Clarisa M. Alayeto, the only Bronx-based candidate who sought to secure the City Council seat representing East Harlem and the South Bronx, is currently off the ballot for the Democratic primaries, according to documents obtained by the Mott Haven Herald. Alayeto, who chairs the Bronx’s Community Board 1 and co-chairs the NYC Public Health Advisory Council, had secured the most campaign donations from Bronxites in the highly-competitive race.
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1 month ago | 
motthavenherald.com | Joe Hirsch
Manhattan and Westchester donors tied to a pro-Israel lobbying group are shelling out thousands to back candidates Clarisa Alayeto and Raymond Santana in the race for the South Bronx-East Harlem City Council seat. A crowded field of candidates are vying for the open District 8 City Council seat, which covers swaths ofEast Harlem and the South Bronx neighborhoods of Mott Haven, Melrose, Port Morris, and Concourse-Concourse Village. Current Councilwoman Diana Ayala is term-limited.
