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Youth soccer league teaches life lessons
A South Bronx United practice at Macombs Dam Park. South Bronx United emphasizes both schoolwork and footwork While coaching a boy’s soccer team in a corner of St. Mary’s Park in January 2009, Andrew...
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Educator inspires kids through music
Bervin Harris teaching vocal lessons at Renaissance Education, Music and Sports in Morrisania. Morrisania non-profit teaches what area schools don’t Former recording artist Bervin Harris has found a...
View ArticleFeds bust another Mott Haven gang
Investigation ongoing into murder of gang leader Several members and associates of a gang that the authorities say dealt heroin and crack in Morrisania were arrested on Jan. 17, in the latest in a...
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Morrisania tenants say landlord forcing them out
Their calls for repairs go unanswered, they say Carmen Guillen was walking through the hallway in her apartment at 1305 Sheridan Avenue in Morrisania in Dec. 2011 when she slipped on water from an...
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Masks reveal Puerto Rican history
Masks used during Puerto Rican Carnival were displayed at the Bronx Music Heritage Center. Folklorists tell tales of two island cities Masks play a crucial role in the annual carnivals that draw...
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Group targets violence at its root
Hakiem Yahmadi of S.O.S. South Bronx indicates the area the anti-violence initiative is expanding to cover. Year-old initiative patterned after acclaimed Chicago model S.O.S. (Save Our Streets) South...
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Candidates vie for Assembly seat
The 79th Assembly District. A half-dozen Democrats square off in Sept. 9 primary Six candidates face off for the New York State Assembly’s 79th district seat, which represents Melrose, Morrisania, and...
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Alleged murderer called victim’s mother ‘mom’
Leticia Palacios shows a Mother’s Day present that her late son Julio gave her two years ago. Photo: Paula Moura. Victim and alleged shooter were co-defendants in 2014 murder charge that was later...
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Suspect pleads not guilty in McKinley Houses murder
Photos of Julio Valesquez as a child hang next to images of his brother and sister in his mother’s Morrisania apartment. The three siblings are buried in Colon, Honduras. Photo: Kaitlin Sullivan...
View ArticleNew rooftop greenhouse set to enhance nutrition for Bronxites
Public housing residents may have a new neighbor next year: an urban farm in the air. On the roof of Arbor House, an affordable housing structure next door to the Forest Houses in Morrisania, will soon...
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