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2020

  • The Push To Turn NYC’s Polluting Peaker Plants Into Publicly-Owned Solar Power
    GOTHAMIST • July 8, 2020
  • These dirty power plants cost billions and only operate in summer. Can they be replaced?
    Grist • May 8, 2020
  • WEDG® Professionals Fan Out Across the Region and Country
    WATERWIRE • January 23, 2020

2019

  • What Climate Risks Mean for NYC’s Food Supply
    City Limits • December 30, 2019
  • Organization Bringing Free Wifi to Community
    BRONXTimes • December 17, 2019 PDF
  • Young Activist Returns To His Roots
    The Hunts Point Express • December 15, 2019 PDF
  • No Coastal Flooding Protections In Store For City’s Largest Food Hub
    The City • November 8, 2019 PDF
  • Hunts Point: Can a Community Revitalize Without Pricing People Out?
    News NY1 • November 1, 2019
  • The sinking class: The New Yorkers left to fight the climate crisis alone
    The Guardian • September 20, 2019 PDF
  • Private Waste Haulers May Not Be Able To Dump On The South Bronx Much Longer
    The Hunts Point Express • July 9, 2019 PDF
  • Green New Deal Is Nothing New For South Bronx Climate Activists
    The Hunts Point Express • May 21, 2019 PDF
  • City Unveils New Design At Wastewater Treatment Plant
    The Hunts Point Express • May 14, 2019 PDF
  • How the Climate & Community Protection Act will Increase Resiliency for New York’s Latinx Communities
    Demos • April 15, 2019 PDF
  • Mapping Heat Vulnerability to Protect Community Health
    Earth & Space Science News • April 5, 2019 PDF
  • Local Communities Taking on Big Oil
    Resilience • March 6, 2019
  • Building resilience with community technology across the United States
    Global Voices Online (Blog) • February 3, 2019 PDF

2018

  • NYC Climate Suit Appeal Draws Support from AGs, Governments, Law Expert
    Climate Liability News • November 16, 2018
  • Harnessing the Sun to Power Equitable Development in NYC
    Next City • November 7, 2018
  • De Blasio Can Still Stop State DOT From Building Highway Ramps By the Bronx River
    StreetsBlogNYC • September 27, 2018
  • The 2018 Bronx Power 50
    City & State • September 23, 2018
  • ICP’s Bronx-based youth photography program looks back at two decades of community collaboration
    Daily.org • July 31, 2018
  • NYC children and teens learn analog photography
    Fox 5 • July 25, 2018
  • Capturing the Beauty of Everyday Life in the Bronx
    The New York Times • July 24, 2018
  • Editors’ Picks: 16 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week
    Artnet • July 24, 2018
  • Hunts Point highway redesign concerns mount, advocates say
    am NEW YORK • July 23, 2019
  • Heat Check
    Grist • July 11, 2018
  • While Young People Desperately Fight a Cuomo Highway Project in Hunts Point, NYC Electeds Do Nothing
    Street Blog NYC • June 28, 2018
  • Fish Parade marchers salute Puerto Rico storm survivors
    Hunts Point Express • June 21, 2018
  • Fish Parade held in Hunts Point
    News 12 • June 16, 2018
  • How Community-Owned Wi-Fi Changes the Game For Poor Neighborhoods
    Nation Swell • May 29, 2018
  • 1,000 Singers From Across NYC Come Together On The High Line For Free Performances
    broadwayworld •  May. 16, 2018  
  • Community urges state to change Sheridan plan
    Hunts Point Express • March 29, 2018
  • South Bronx to Cuomo: Don’t Cut Off Hunts Point From the Bronx River With Another Highway
    Streets Blog NY • March 29, 2018
  • Former Bronx detention center to become live-work campus
    Real Estate Weekly • March 29, 2018
  • Bronx Groups: Plan to Scrap the Sheridan Could Create a New Injustice
    City Limits • March 27, 2018

2017

  • Activistas analizan impacto de cambio climático en NYC
    El Diario • November 29, 2017
  • App Project Seeks to Empower NYC Students, Families to Advocate for Their Educational Rights
    Stay Up • November 3, 2017
  • What Happens to the Internet After a Disaster?
    Select All • October 31, 2017
  • Before the Storm
    WNYC • October 29, 2017
  • Sandy5 Wrap Video
    Fossil Free  • October 28, 2017
  • Spared by Sandy, City’s Waterfront Food Hub Prepares for Future Disasters
    City Limits • October 27, 2017
  • Preparan a latinos contra desastres naturales
    NY1 • October 24, 2017
  • City officials, business owners, residents gather for emergency drill
    News 12 • October 23, 2017
  • Hunts Point Resiliency: Connection Stories
    Medium • October 10, 2017
  • Douglas Miles of Apache Skateboards on Merging Pop Culture and Native History
    Phoenix New Times • August 17, 2016
  • South Bronx Advocates Say State’s Sheridan Expressway Plan Must Go Farther
    Citylimits • July 26, 2017
  • A hated, mile-long highway shows an overlooked problem with America’s infrastructure — but it could soon come crumbling down
    Business Insider • July 9, 2017
  • City unveils flood-prevention strategies
    Hunts Point Express • July 1, 2017 
  • Cuomo’s Sheridan Expressway Plan Is Not What the South Bronx Asked For
    Streetsblog.NYC • June 30, 2017
  • Fish Parade celebrates Hunts Point’s resilience
    Hunts Point Express • June 25, 2017 
  • Peninsula’ housing plan questioned by Community Board
    Hunts Point Express • June 19, 2017 
  • Pilot program announced to launch local arts initiatives
    Hunts Point Express • June 16, 2017 
  • From Nigeria to Hunts Point, and beyond
    Hunts Point Express • June 1, 2017 
  • Vandals deface local mural…three times
    Hunts Point Express • May 25, 2017 
  • Southern Boulevard Stakeholders Unsure of Planning Process Parameters
    Citylimits • May 18, 2017 
  • The Week Ahead in New York Politics, May 8
    GothamGazette • May 07, 2017
  • State’s South Bronx renewal plan does not include Sheridan teardown
    Hunts Point Express • May 05, 2017 
  • Residents organize against proposed rezonings
    HuntsPointExpress • May 01, 2017
  • “Mi Casa es Mi Casa”: Young artists voice views on displacement
    Hunts Point Express • March 15, 2017 
  • Resiliency Project holds third community workshop
    HuntsPointExpress • March 09, 2017 
  • The Bronx Is Building
    The New York Times • March 03, 2017
  • Waste Woes: Will Bronx Officials Vote For Env’tal Justice?
    The Natural Resources Defense Council  • January 06, 2017
  • A notorious former Bronx prison site to become affordable housing
    The Architects Newspaper • January 04, 2017

2016

  • NYC Detention Center Redevelopment Aims to Add Jobs
    Next City • December 06, 2016
  • Project aims to prepare Hunts Point against big storms
    Hunts Point Express • November 10, 2016
  • Housing, jobs to replace Spofford Detention Center
    Bronx Times • November 6, 2016
  • Notorious Bronx juvenile center will transform into affordable housing, community space
    Curbed NY • October 27, 2016
  • Multimillion-Dollar Redevelopment Planned for Former Bronx Juvenile Detention Center
    NY1 News • October 28, 2017
  • Private Trash Haulers Pollute Low-Income NYC Neighborhoods of Color
    Streetsblog NY • September 27, 2016
  • Douglas Miles of Apache Skateboards on Merging Pop Culture and Native History
    Phoenix New Times • August 17, 2016
  • Young activists learn the art of advocacy
    Hunts Point Express • August 16, 2016
  • A Microgrid to Keep New York City’s Fresh Food Supply Safe
    Microgrid Knowledge • August 4, 2016
  • Wi-Fi options are limited in Hunts Point
    Hunts Point Express • March 28, 2016

2015

  • JP Viñals wins Brower Youth Award
    Hunts Point Express • December 6, 2015
  • Young photographers pursue their passion
    Hunts Point Express • August 2, 2015
  • Community Board 2 shines light on district’s dimming intersections
    Bronx Times • April  23, 2015
  • Residents prepare for big changes on the waterfront
    Mott Haven Herald • April 2, 2015

2014

  • City Council Gets on Board with Overhauling the Sheridan, Will Cuomo?
    Streetsblog NYC •  March 25, 2014
  • I Love the Bronx: Speak Up /Amo el Bronx: Speak Up
    The Bronx Free Press • February 26, 2014

2013

  • Long-awaited report spells recipe to remake Sheridan Expressway
    New York Daily News • December 11, 2013
  • Sugary, but Real
    New York Times • May 10, 2013
  • Michel Gondry goes back to the art house with ‘The We and the I’
    Los Angeles Times •  March 23, 2013
  • Last Stop, Adulthood, the Bronx
    New York Times • March 7, 2013

2012

  • Junot Diaz: My Dominican New York
    New York Post • September 23, 2012
  • ‘‘Paradise’ Boosts Bronx Arts Scene
    Norwood News • July 30, 2012
  • A bus ride that started in the Bronx and – four years later – arrived in Cannes
    The Independent • May 18, 2012
  • Cannes 2012: Michel Gondry on ‘The We and the I’
    The Hollywood Reporter • May 19, 2012
  • Michel Gondry on The We and the I: ‘People Are Less Interesting in Groups’
    The Guardian • May 19, 2012
  • Uptown Palazzo Projec
    The New York Times • March, 19, 2012
  • Sharon De La Cruz, artist and activist from THE POINT, honored for community work in the  Bronx
    NY Daily News • February 23, 2012
  • José Rivera
    The Brooklyn Rail • February 5, 2012
  • Raising Trashcan Tilapia is Latest Trend in Urban Farming
    DNAinfo.com • January 18, 2012
  • Hard Knocks in the Bronx
    The Nation • January 2, 2012

2011

  • The Luise Ross Gallery to Show Self-Taught Artist Jose Rivera
    Art News • December 25, 2011
  • Hunts Point arts group takes Bronx teens to new Cirque du Soleil heights
    NY Daily News • December 1, 2011
  • Real Life Thanksgiving Must Dos
    CNN iReport • November 25, 2011
  • Outsider’ artist in the South Bronx
    The Bronx Ink •  October 13, 2011
  • Artists transcend their disabilities through work at Bronx ‘Outsiders’ exhibit
    NY Daily News • August 4, 201
    Farms Crop Up in the South Bronx
    Wall Street Journal • August 1, 2011
  •  pay tribute to murdered friend by creating House of ‘Spoof’ collective
    NY Daily News • July 21, 2011
  • Mott Haven walls keep memories alive
    Mott Haven Herald • June 4, 2011
  • Eyes on, and of, a South Bronx Community
    The New York Times • June 28, 2011
  • City Reduces Chronic Absenteeism in Public Schools
    The New York Times • June 16, 2011
  • City Year’s mentors show up for truants at Bronx public schools
    NY Daily News • April 26, 2011

2010

  • Sotomayor Honored During Bronx Children’s Museum Event at Lehman College
    Citylimits.org • August 16, 2010
  • Bronx students, volunteers plant seeds for Hunts Point urban farm
    NY Daily News • May 7, 2010
  • Key to the City’ Kiosk
     The New York Times • May 6, 2010
  • The South Bronx Gets Serious About Green
    The Huffington Post • March 22, 2010
  • Boogie down in the birthplace of hip-hop and salsa.
    Time Out • January 2010

2009

  • R&B Superstar Gives $500 checks to City’s Brightest Kids to Improve Community
    NY Daily News • December 30, 2009
  • South Bronx Food & Film Expo
    Blog • December 6, 2009
  • Bronx Tops in Poverty and Unemployment, 14th in Stimulus
    WNYC • August 7, 2009
  • Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner underscores Hunt’s Point
    NY Daily News • July 1, 2009
  • Hunts Point back in swim of things: Movable pool returns
    NY Daily News • June 15, 2009
  • Talking and Mixing to the Hip-Hop and Reggae Beat
    City room • February 27, 2009
  • Caribbean roots of hip hop to be explored
    NY Daily News • February 22, 2009

2008

  • Annual Fish Parade illustrates value of Hunts Point’s new venues
    NY Daily News • June 23, 2008

2007

  • City Buys South Brother Island on East River for Bird Refuge
    NY Daily News • November 27, 2007
  • Mambo and Hip-Hop: Two Bronx Sounds, One Sense of Dignit
    The New York Times • September 14, 2006

2006

  • Between the Edge and the Root: Action Lab in Hunts Point
    Community Arts • July 2006

2000

  • Jordan’s Queen Gets Tour of Bx. Center
    NY Daily News
    • May 2000

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