...road to freedom could hide was the villa of Charles Van Doren, which stood at East 145th Street and Third Avenue. Another was the Mott Haven Dutch Reformed Church, which still stands on East 146th Street...

Published by BoogieDowner on August 28, 2008.

...to the great civil rights leader ever since his assassination by renaming The Triangle at Austin Place and East 149th Street in his honor...

Published by BoogieDowner on August 28, 2008.

"If you are not a good payer, you won't get credit and you will have to pay COD [cash on delivery]. If you can't do that, you won't get oil," said Lloyd Rosenman, vice president of operations at Stuyvesant Fuel, an oil distributor in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx, which has signed up for the service.

Published by New York Daily News on August 28, 2008.

In Morrisania, where sidewalks ranked the dirtiest in the city last month, amNewYork recently found trash clumped around trees and atop catch basin crates.

Published by amNY.com on August 25, 2008.

South Bronx Food Coop will be relocating to 3103 Third Avenue in a new retail space in October. Until then SBFC is still open from 11 - 5pm on Saturday at Nos Quedamos (Downstairs) @ 754 Melrose Avenue (Between 156th & 157th St),

Published by BoogieDowner on August 24, 2008.

South Bronx Food Coop will be relocating to 3103 Third Avenue in a new retail space in October. Until then SBFC is still open from 11 - 5pm on Saturday at Nos Quedamos (Downstairs) @ 754 Melrose Avenue (Between 156th & 157th St),

Published by BoogieDowner on August 24, 2008.

Currently the SBFC operates on Saturdays from 11am - 5pm out of Nos Quedamos (Downstairs) @ 754 Melrose Avenue (Between 156th & 157th St), but is seeking a permanent retail center of its own. Please...

Published by BoogieDowner on August 22, 2008.

The life of a young, up and coming boxer was cut tragically short with one gunshot in the Bronx. Ronney Vargas' family and friends gathered in the Mott Haven section of the borough to mourn his loss.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 16, 2008.

In the days immediately after Davidson --who grew up in Highbridge and started last year for Kennedy High's basketball team -died, some family members and friends suspected that his death was heat-related; there was no air conditioning in St. Mary's Rec Center, where Davidson was competing in a tournament game when he collapsed July 5.

Published by West Bronx Blog on August 16, 2008.

LOCATION: 448 East 149th Street

Published by NY1 on August 15, 2008.

LOCATION: 376 East 156th Street

Published by NY1 on August 15, 2008.

Donnette Sanz, 33, a traffic enforcement agent employed by the police, was hit by a 1986 Dodge while on duty at an intersection in the Bronx. Sanz, who was eight months pregnant, was then thrown into the path of a school bus, according to a police report.

Published by New York Sun on August 15, 2008.

According to a press release, tomorrow Axelbankwill focus on "community self-determination" and he’ll "take calls about the Yankee Stadium project, the Kingsbridge Armory, jails in Hunts Point, the water filtration project, and other issues on listeners' minds.”

Published by West Bronx Blog on August 13, 2008.

Police are investigating a double shooting that left one man dead in the Bronx on Tuesday night. A 20-year-old man was fatally shot in the head at E. 165th Street in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, according to police. He was found dead on a bench outside a housing complex.

Published by WNBC on August 13, 2008.

MORRISANIA (WABC) -- A young man was killed -- and a 13-year-old was wounded in a double shooting in the Bronx overnight. Police are still looking for the gunman.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 13, 2008.

...607 Sixth St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215, or to the Princeton University Outdoor Action Program, 350 Alexander St., Princeton, N.J. 08540...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 12, 2008.

Police said a dispute between two groups of men outside the Badabing strip club in Hunts Point ended in gunfire.

Published by WNBC on August 4, 2008.

The city's Safe Routes to Schools program will be bringing changes to the traffic pattern near Cauldwell Ave. and E. 156th St. near Public School 157.

Published by New York Daily News on August 4, 2008.

The traffic speeding past Public School 157 in Mott Haven is enough to make school officials and parents cringe.

Published by New York Daily News on August 4, 2008.

Eyewitness News is told the triple shooting stemmed from an argument that happened right outside the club "Badabing" in the Hunts Point section.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 4, 2008.

Among the fish purveyor’s 20 largest creditors the filing listed several seafood distributors and suppliers based at the Hunts Point Fish Market in the Bronx.

Published by Crain's New York Business on July 29, 2008.

But there's one post that we thought looked very familiar to a post written on the West Bronx Blog by Highbridge Horizon editor Tony Richards about citizen complaints at the 44th Police Precinct.

Published by West Bronx Blog on July 25, 2008.

His father made it big in politics, but Andrew Giuliani’s dreams veer toward sports, he explained as he smacked golf balls on Randalls Island on Thursday. That’s one reason he said he had little choice but to sue Duke University where he is a student, and its head golf coach for pushing him off the varsity golf team this spring.

Published by New York Times on July 24, 2008.

For years Hunts Point residents have had to live with automotive junkyards, scrap yards and waste transfer stations that make their neighborhood look like a set from the movie about a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Published by New York Daily News on July 24, 2008.

But the pool, like the park it abuts, went into steep decline starting in the 1960s, as middle-class residents fled the surrounding neighborhoods — Morrisania, Crotona, East Tremont, West Farms — and poverty and violence took hold.

Published by New York Times on July 21, 2008.

But finally, last year, megadeveloper Stephen Ross built a two-story retail and office building at Third Ave. and E. 156th St., and renovated the parking garage next door.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Walgreens took space on Third Ave. at E. 148th St., and eateries Subway and Little Caesars rented at the Orion, Procida Realty & Construction's Third Ave. condo development just north of Related's new building.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

At 306 E. 149th St., Lorenzo is trying to lease 40,000 square feet of retail space for Atlantic Development Group, which plans to build stores and apartments.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Susan Kaufman is looking for one or more tenants for a vacant 8,000-square-foot building at 368 E. 149th, which her grandfather, vaudeville song-and-dance man Abraham Kaufman, built in the 1920s. His business partner was a circus sideshow performer known as Zip the Pinhead.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

She'll get her wish if Related becomes a joint-venture partner with Blackacre Capital and Cypress Equities in a massive development planned nearby at a nearly empty, six-acre site at E. 149th St. and Bergen and Brook Aves.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Joseph Shamosh, the president of Youngland, owns a development site at the corner of Westchester and Bergen Aves. that's being marketed on real estate database CoStar.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

In the kitchens, stoves were described as "filthy" at the Judith White center in Manhattan and at the Borinquen facility in Brooklyn. The Department for the Aging funds the centers, but they're operated by independent nonprofit organizations that generally lease space and are dependent on property owners to make repairs.

Published by New York Post on July 18, 2008.

Among the problems identified in the audit were a hazardous corridor leading to the bathrooms at the Harlem Teams Senior Center, above, and grease around the stove top at the Borinquen Court Senior Center in the Bronx, below.

Published by New York Times on July 17, 2008.

MORRISANIA--Police say a woman was stabbed by her attacker, who then leaped off the roof of their Bronx building to his death -- leaving her two children missing.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 11, 2008.

THE BRUCKNER Bar, located at 1 Bruckner Boulevard, on the corner of Third Avenue, in Mott Haven, presents “Revolution!,” a new rock ‘n’ roll dance party, on Friday, July 11, at 10 p.m.

Published by Riverdale Press on July 10, 2008.

...1951 bout Robinson took the middleweight crown from LaMotta. Gleason’s Gym was located at 434 Westchester Avenue in The Bronx from 1935-1974. It was there that LaMotta, among other future champs...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on July 10, 2008.

11 a.m. School children march against gun violence; P.S. 179 Playground, 468 East 140th St., Bronx.

Published by The New York Observer on July 10, 2008.

Residents in Hunts Point say putrid odors coming from two sewage facilities infiltrates homes and schools, keeping them from enjoying their yards or hanging clothes out to dry.

Published by New York Sun on July 10, 2008.

Residents at the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx complain that the stench from the plants infiltrates homes and schools, keeping families from enjoying their yards, or even hanging clothes out to dry. At a local school, students don't go out to play when the odor hits.

Published by New York Sun on July 9, 2008.

Residents in the Hunts Point neighborhood complain that the stench from the plants infiltrates homes and schools, keeping families from enjoying their yards or even hanging clothes out to dry. At a local school, students don't go out to play when the odor hits.

Published by WNBC on July 9, 2008.

Residents in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx complain that the stench from the plants infiltrates homes and schools, keeping families from enjoying their yards or even hanging clothes out to dry. At a local school, students don't go out to play when the odor hits.

Published by New York Post on July 9, 2008.

Residents in the Hunts Point neighborhood complain that the stench from the plants infiltrates homes and schools, keeping families from enjoying their yards or even hanging clothes out to dry. At a local school, students don't go out to play when the odor hits.

Published by Crain's New York Business on July 9, 2008.

Residents in the Hunts Point neighborhood complain that the stench from the plants infiltrates homes and schools, keeping families from enjoying their yards or even hanging clothes out to dry. At a local school, students don't go out to play when the odor hits.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 9, 2008.

Residents in the Hunts Point neighborhood complain that the stench from the plants infiltrates homes and schools, keeping families from enjoying their yards or even hanging clothes out to dry. At a local school, students don't go out to play when the odor hits.

Published by New York Daily News on July 9, 2008.

Davidson, a starter this past season at John F. Kennedy High School, collapsed Saturday afternoon at St. Mary's Rec Center in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx, while competing in a one-day basketball tournament. The gym where he was playing does not have an air-conditioner, and many of Davidson's family members told the Highbridge Horizon today that they believe his death was heat-related.

Published by West Bronx Blog on July 8, 2008.

The department’s biggest recent success stories include reviving parks in Harlem and the once vastly polluted Bronx waterfront, where significant improvements were made to Barretto Point Park, parkland along the Bronx River, Hunts Point Riverside Park and other green space.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on July 7, 2008.

Gonzalez used a combination of spray paint, detailed brush technique and stenciling, with supplies donated by Al Jampol Paint & Hardware on Morris Park Ave. and Ronan Paints on E. 135th St. to finish the work.

Published by New York Daily News on July 5, 2008.

The “Floating Pool Lady,” a seven-lane pool on a barge, opened on June 27 in Barretto Point Park in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx.

Published by West Bronx Blog on July 3, 2008.

The four men were brought to the 50th Precinct where they were questioned for several hours. According to the district attorney’s office, the men maintained that they were picking up scrap metal that had been thrown away, and were planning to take it to Hunts Point.

Published by Riverdale Press on July 3, 2008.

Of the remaining New York City children with lead poisoning, 22 percent lived in Queens, mostly in West Queens and Southwest Queens; 19 percent lived in the Bronx, mostly in Crotona, Tremont, Pelham, Throgs Neck, Fordham, Bronx Park, High Bridge and Morrisania; 13 percent lived in Manhattan, mostly in Washington Heights, Inwood, Central Harlem, Morningside Heights and the Upper West Side; and 4 percent lived on Staten Island, mostly in Stapleton, St. George and Port Richmond.

Published by New York Times on July 2, 2008.