Hunts Point (Bronx)

New Amsterdam Market Fights for the Seaport

On Thursday, March 14, the New York City Council will hold a public hearing to discuss future plans for South Street Seaport, the city's oldest communal meeting place. Organizers of the New Amsterdam Market -- an outdoor marketplace held in the area -- are seeking to "preserve and rehabilitate" the ... More >>

C'mon, New York City Babies, Learn To Dodge Bullets Already

For the third time since July, a baby failed to get out of the way of a stray bullet in one of New York's five boroughs -- and since the people of Gotham clearly aren't going to stop shooting each other, we at the Voice feel it's far time that babies take a little initiative here and learn to dodge ... More >>

Know Your Rights! Advocates Take on Stop-and-Frisk In Bronx Mural

​Activists speaking out against the New York Police Department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy are unveiling a new weapon: art! Last month, we reported on the formation of a coalition called Communities United for Police Reform, or CPR, which has brought together dozens of groups under a un ... More >>

'Escort Quality, Hooker Pricing' Billboard Is Not OK, Says Scott Stringer

If an offensive advertisement fails, and you apologize for the offensiveness of the ad, what's the next logical step for the ad company? For Wodka Vodka, the answer apparently is to try and offend someone else. IN VERY LARGE LETTERS. The thinking behind the madness: If making fun of Jews doesn't w ... More >>

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

Armed Bronx Jacket Thief on the Loose

A man was robbed at gunpoint for his orange Marmot jacket in the Bronx recently, cops say. The sartorially minded scumbag (pictured here) approached a man on the corner of Hunts Point Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard on Dec. 14, pulled out a gun, took the victim's coat and nothing else, and then fled ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: The 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

This week in the Voice, out today: Steven Thrasher's listing of the 100 most powerless New Yorkers. Among them: weed-delivery guys and the transgendered sex workers of Hunts Point. Maura Johnston notes the many aesthetic links between David Lee Roth and Kanye West.

Mike Bloomberg and Christine Quinn Cut Ribbon for Bronx's First City-Sponsored Business Incubator

Mayor Mike Bloomberg fondly remembers his days as a small business owner and likes to share the joy of successful entrepreneurship with New York City start-ups. This time, in the Bronx. The mayor announced today the first city-sponsored business incubator in the borough, which will be part of the ... More >>

Bronx Gay Center Moving Into The Reverend Ruben Diaz Gardens Building

Today we got a press release from the Bronx Community Pride Center announcing that they are moving out of their run-down building in Mott Haven and into swanky new digs in Hunts Point/Longwood in a facility called...The Reverend Ruben Diaz Gardens Building. Yes, you read that right, and we admit we ... More >>

Lost Boys

New research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker—and sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide

Watch Some South Bronx Teens Make an Excellent Documentary About Bodegas

Bodega Down Bronx from the Center for Urban Pedagogy on Vimeo. Here's a good way to go into the weekend: a funny, engaging documentary about one of New York's most lamented food deserts, made by the teenagers who live there. Through a partnership with the Center for Urban Pedagogy, a group of Sout ... More >>

NYPD Commander Pressured Me On Ticket Quotas, Cop Claims

​ A second police officer has filed a lawsuit alleging his former precinct commander demanded ticket quotas and punished officers for not attaining them, the Daily News is reporting. Sgt. Christopher Groben is also alleging that Inspector Donald McHugh often make racist remarks and ordered Gr ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Crayfish Festival; Food Truck Wine Pairing

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Crayfish Festival Aquavit August 8-12 and 15-19 Swedes have been eating crayfish since the 16th century. But you don't have to be Swedish to celebrate Aquavit's ann ... More >>

U.S. Postal Service May Cut More Than 30 NYC Post Offices to Save Money

​Today in things we don't really worry about until we order something from Amazon, the Post Office, which lost $8 billion last year, is considering closing 1 in 10 retail outlets and is studying 3,653 local offices, branches, and stations throughout the U.S., many of which could be replaced by ... More >>

Olive Garden Remodels to Look More Tuscan; Hunts Point Produce Market to Relocate After Losing Lease

​Gwyneth Paltrow is everywhere these days and might be coming to a newsstand near you. The actress is rumored to be [groan] planning a food magazine. [NY Post] Olive Garden is remodeling 400 of its more than 730 locations over the next two years to look more like Tuscan villas. [Nation's Res ... More >>

Fresh Kills Still Kind of Stinky, at Least Metaphorically

Back in the old days.​Ten years ago today, the Fresh Kills landfill accepted its last garbage barge, closing after 54 years as a favor from Rudy Guilani to Staten Island. The dump, "visible from space, taller than the Statue of Liberty and once the world's largest landfill," as WNYC puts it, w ... More >>

R.I.P. Jarrett Rivera? Hunts Point Refuses to Rest in Peace.

​Jarrett Rivera was gunned down February 6 in Hunts Point, a month after his 24th birthday. Almost as senseless are the threats and counterthreats that broke out afterwards. A one-paragraph Runnin' Scared item on the Bronx homicide on February 18 unleashed a barrage of bitter comments. Cops are l ... More >>

Yohan Perez, 23, Wanted in Connection with Fatal Shooting in South Bronx

Yohan Perez: Wanted in shooting​Cops are looking for 23-year-old Yohan Perez in connection with the February 6 shooting death of Jarrett Rivera, 24, in front of 848 Hunts Point Avenue in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. Rivera was found at about 4:45 p.m. on that Sunday afternoon. He had bee ... More >>

Bronx Burglars Caught on Tape; Your Turn to Catch Them

Cops are asking for help in finding two burglars caught on surveillance cameras ripping off a Hunts Point apartment at 918 Faile Street at about 1:30 a.m. on New Year's Day. As you can see, each had an armful of swag. Know anything? Tipsters can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or sub ... More >>

The 7 Best Quotes From Bloomberg's Blizzard Presser

WABC-TV​Mayor Bloomberg just wrapped up a press conference in Hunts Point addressing the city's blizzard response. Our ever-blasé municipal leader, along with several department commissioners, defended the city's response, piled some blame onto drama queen New Yorkers, and doled out some informat ... More >>

The Top Ten Best Worst Singing Rappers

​These days, there's nothing attention grabbing about rappers who sing, whether it's Andre 3000's amped squawk, an Auto-Tune-enabled Kanye West, or Lil Wayne's upcoming Riker's Island shower room spirituals. This week the canon sees new album additions from one-time Goodie Mob member Cee-Lo Gr ... More >>

Food.Curated Trains Its Lens on the Lobster Place

The Makings of a Good Fishmonger: The Lobster Place from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo. The latest episode of Food.Curated is here: this time around, Liza de Guia has trained her camera on the Lobster Place, the wholesale and retail seafood market that sells, among other things, some of the best chowder we'v ... More >>

The Poorest Congressional District in America? Right Here, in New York City

​There are 435 congressional districts in the United States of America. And the poorest one in the country is right here in New York City. Can you guess which one it is?

New Yorkers: We're All Living Longer, But Dudes, You're Still Dying First

​There's a new report out about men's health in New York City. The good news: We're all living longer than ever. If you were born in 2007 (and can read; if not, ask Mommy or Daddy to read this to you), you will probably live to an average of 79.4 years. But: Men die six years before women on a ... More >>

NYPD Tapes 5: The Corroboration

Another police officer secretly tapes his precinct—this time in the Bronx

Anthology Celebrates the Four Boroughs

Forget Manhattan. "The Outer Boroughs on Film" celebrates the Bronx, Brooklyn, SI, and Queens

Scott Stringer Has a Real Plan for Overhauling the City's Food System

Andrew SchwartzScott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President and food reform guy.​ Plenty of enterprising politicians have paid lip service to the idea of trying to make the city's food supply healthier, more easily accessible, and environmentally sound, but far fewer have actually done anything ... More >>

Fishmonger M. Slavin & Sons Sued for Sexual and Racial Harrassment

rachelleb.com​The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing the fish wholesaler and importer M. Slavin & Sons for male-on-male sexual, racial, and national origin harassment. The suit charges that some of M. Slavin's owners and managers subjected male and especially black American ... More >>

Quick hits

Tom Brokaw and his wife Meredith were involved in a three-car collision in the Bronx which left one woman dead on Friday. Suejas Estrada of the Bronx swerved to avoid a coil of cable on the Bruckner and forced a mail truck in the next lane into the path of Brokaw's car. Suejas was thrown from her ca ... More >>

FLOAT ON

Swimming in the Bronx River? Say what?

Drama at New York's Only Wholesale Farmers' Market

Local drama: the farmers, the merchants, the politicians, and the hooker

Hunts Point: Where To Eat (With Strippers)

A foodie's tour through the neighborhood that feeds the city and the nation

They, Robots

Auteurs! Strap-ons! A theater critic's New Year's wish list

Hanging at the New Fulton Fish Market with an insider

The old man and the seafood

The Dark Side of Summer

Turn off your air conditioners. Take a cue from a camel. Lay off the ice cream. And other advice for surviving a 'heat island'

Sins of the Father

Rev. Louis Gigante, kin to the Genovese crime family, slips from hero to slumlord

New Tapes on Freddy

Felonious Friend Wired Deals for Donations While Privately Slamming Ferrer

Close-Up on South Street Seaport

Landmarks of the Bronx and Harlem

Northern Exposure

Listings

Close-up on Hunts Point

Branching Out

Emerging Dance Troupes Move to Their Own Beat

American Enough

Country Pride in the Big City

Deflowering the Bronx

Parks Department Paves Green Spaces Saved by Volunteers

Air Wars

Activists Struggle to Link Proposed Power Plants to Asthma

And the Meat Goes On:

Scenes From the Gansevoort Market

Field of Drums

Seminal Nuyorican Musicians Steal Home a Half-Century After Stickball, to the South Bronx Blocks That Spawned Them

New Storytelling

Trashing the Point

Residents Oppose Bronx Waste-Transfer Site

Alternating Currents