This is Evelyn Rivera and Eddie Marrero, two former workers at the Stella D’Oro cookie factory. They were gracious enough to let me into their homes for one of my final features for my RW1 course.
My new feature story for The Bronx Ink about Eddie and Evelyn and their fellow Stella D’Oro workers who are now out of a job due to the closing of their cookie factory that had existed in the Bronx for 78 years is up now. Read it here.
Categories: Journalism · Kingsbridge · RW1 · The Bronx
Tagged: Kingsbridge, The Bronx, RW1, Connor Boals, Journalism, Stella D'Oro, The Bronx Ink
I’ve spent a lot of time covering the struggle of the now-former employees of the Stella D’Oro Cookie Factory in the Bronx.
My new piece, for The Bronx Ink, can be read here.
Categories: Journalism · Kingsbridge · Multimedia · RW1 · The Bronx
Tagged: Kingsbridge, Connor Boals, Stella D'Oro, Jobs, The Bronx Ink
This Tuesday, November 3, was the New York City General Election. My RW1 Class was dispatched into the Bronx for some exit polling. I hopped on the train at 7 a.m. to head to Riverdale, a wealthy, white and Jewish Democratic stronghold in the Northwestern Bronx to see how people were voting for mayor. The polls were stationed at PS 81, the local elementary school.
The poll was very informal, but Riverdale looked like it was going to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. More importantly, more than half the people I polled were registered democrats that went for Bloomberg. (more…)
Categories: Journalism · Kingsbridge · Manhattan · Photos · RW1 · The Bronx
Tagged: Bill Thompson, Bloomberg, Connor Boals, Democratic Party, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City Mayor, Photos, Ruben Diaz Jr.
Categories: Journalism · Kingsbridge · RW1 · The Bronx
Tagged: Marble Hill, RW1
For my core class, Reporting and Writing 1, each of us was assigned a neighborhood in the Bronx as our beat. My neighborhood is Kingsbridge, which is basically between the last three stops on the 1. I had so many preconceptions about the Bronx before going up there, most of them involved crime, drugs, violence, etc. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with a neighborhood full of life, culture and around every corner, there is a story to tell.
I’m looking forward to working in Kingsbridge. I hope I can do the people and the place justice with the work I produce.
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Categories: Kingsbridge · RW1 · The Bronx
Tagged: Kingsbridge, Photojournalism, Photos, RW1, The Bronx
Stephen Quinones, 42, a city housing employee at the Marble Hill housing project in Kingsbridge had a few opinions about the food selection in his neighborhood.
Munching on a bag of Peanut M&Ms, he pointed to the tightly packed array of food establishments along the stretch of Broadway near the project where he lives.
“They’re missing a couple of main stores: a KFC, a couple of Spanish joints,” he said. “I get tired of Mcdonald’s, Subway, the deli and Chinese food.”
Although the South Bronx is home to some of the city’s worst obesity rates, Kingsbridge and the Marble Hill neighborhoods to the north aren’t exactly an oasis of health either. The Bronx as a whole had higher obesity rates for every age group than in New York City overall, according to a May 2007 New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene report, “Obesity in the South Bronx: a look across generations.”
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Categories: Kingsbridge · RW1 · The Bronx
Tagged: Kingsbridge, Marble Hill
