Carter, who was born in the industrial Hunts Point neighborhood, started her "green" group in 2001 and helped spearhead efforts to build the South Bronx Greenway. Since then, almost $30 million has been secured for the city-run construction of pedestrian and bike pathways and waterfront space.

Published by New York Post on September 22, 2008.

While Mills is getting battered in the press, she received a warm welcome at the Hunts Point Riverside Park. Most children gathered around barbecue pits filled with soy burgers and soy dogs didn't even know who she was.

Published by New York Daily News on September 21, 2008.

Heather Mills is set to announce the donation just before the Hunts Point Back to School Fair kicks off Saturday afternoon. The vegan animal rights campaigner is an honorary chairwoman of the nonprofit that organizes the event.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 20, 2008.

Former wife of Paul McCartney and 'Dancing With the Stars' contestant Heather Mills is set to donate $1 million worth of vegan food to programs in Hunts Point.

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

Heather Mills is set to announce the donation just before the Hunts Point Back to School Fair kicks off Saturday afternoon. The vegan animal rights campaigner is an honorary chairwoman of the nonprofit that organizes the event.

Published by WNBC on September 20, 2008.

Mills will show up today at Riverside Park in Hunts Point to help cook a vegan barbecue lunch for some 1,000 low-income families. She also will get an award from Congressman José Serrano and Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión.

Published by New York Post on September 20, 2008.

Heather Mills is set to announce the donation just before the Hunts Point Back to School Fair kicks off Saturday afternoon. The vegan animal rights campaigner is an honorary chairwoman of the nonprofit that organizes the event.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 20, 2008.

Lisa Kahane stood at the Intervale Avenue and Home Street, surprised by what she saw — two-story row houses with blue awnings and aluminum siding.

Published by New York Times on September 15, 2008.

Mr. Newman was born and raised in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. He graduated from Evander Childs High School and went on to earn his degree in business from Pace University in Manhattan.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 11, 2008.

Maria Pagan and Jose Jimenez with their daughter, Rachel, in their two-bedroom condo in the Melrose section of the Bronx.

Published by New York Daily News on September 7, 2008.

Ethnicity has always been viewed as highly significant in the district, which includes the Morrisania, Crotona and Tremont sections of the Bronx. In the last census, the 79th Assembly District was 52 percent Hispanic and 43 percent black, with non-Hispanic white residents making up less than 2 percent.

Published by New York Times on September 5, 2008.

The stores were nothing if not labor-intensive — open at all hours in Manhattan, and in the other boroughs, typically from 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week. Many store owners get up around 3 a.m. to go to the Hunts Point Market. The hours — lengthened by the need to compete with supermarkets and the need to pay rising rents — took a toll:

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

THE floating pool that sits out on a barge off Barretto Point Park in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx can hold up to 170 people at a time. But on weekday mornings between 7 and 8:30, it holds just one.

Published by New York Times on August 30, 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.

Rebel Diaz, a fiery hip-hop group based in Hunts Point, performed in Denver on Tuesday in the shadows of the State Capitol.

Published by West Bronx Blog on August 28, 2008.

Two men with reputed ties to organized crime pleaded guilty to participating in an illegal gambling ring run out of a wholesale produce market at Hunts Point.

Published by New York Times on August 27, 2008.

The slaughterhouse sells everything from hens to goats and caters to both African Muslims and Caribbean Latinos.

Published by New York Times on August 27, 2008.

Among the Bronx neighborhoods where he has awarded grants are Mott Haven, the Morris High School Historic District, and a stretch of Morris Avenue near Tremont Avenue.

Published by New York Times on August 25, 2008.

The Police Department says Jefferson was busted for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after he "became irate" when officers stopped him for drinking alcohol outside a store at East 167th Street and Washington Avenue.

Published by New York Post on August 25, 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.

LOCATION: OâNeil Park at 161st St and Washington Ave

Published by NY1 on August 15, 2008.

For six weeks every summer, the corner of 165th Street and Boston road in the Bronx becomes home to an organic market.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 14, 2008.

"It's a beautiful experience," Shery Olivo, a Bronx International High School student involved in the program, said. "You get to plant it, you get to grow it, and you get to eat it – which is the fun part of it."

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 14, 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.

The shooting occurred around 11:30 p.m. in front of 730 E. 165th Street.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 13, 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.

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.

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.

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.

In Morrisania, Public School 140 Principal Paul Cannon welcomed the imminent improvements.

Published by New York Daily News 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.

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. Today the area has come far from its worst days, thanks in part to a citywide decline in crime and in part to the efforts of residents.

Published by New York Times on July 21, 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.

1085 Washington Avenue Apartments is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for 71 affordable housing rental apartments now under construction at 1085 Washington Avenue in the Morrisania section of The Bronx.

Published by Derivative Works on July 21, 2008.

Officers found the 31-year-old woman Friday stabbed a number of times at 631 East 168th Street.

Published by NY1 on July 12, 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.

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 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.

After that presentation, a retiree from Claremont in the Bronx will received another Lotto prize check valued at $19,000,000.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) 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 New York Daily News 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 WNBC on July 9, 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.

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.

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.

The Creek and the Cave, 10-93 Jackson Ave., at the foot of the Pulaski Bridge, Long Island City. No fuss with tickets, just show up early (space is limited) and enjoy the view of the fireworks.

Published by New York Daily News on July 2, 2008.