The Bronx

Entries Tagged as 'The Bronx'

Lost Jobs, Lost Family

December 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Journalism, Kingsbridge, RW1, The Bronx

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 [...]

No More Cookies For The Bronx

November 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Journalism, Kingsbridge, Multimedia, RW1, The Bronx

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. [blip.tv ?posts_id=2753929&dest=-1] My new piece, for The Bronx Ink, can be read here.

NYC Mayoral Election 2009: Polling Early and Partying Late

November 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Journalism, Kingsbridge, Manhattan, Photos, RW1, The Bronx

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 [...]

The Bronx Ink

October 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Journalism, Kingsbridge, RW1, The Bronx

My RW1 class Web site is up and running. You can check it out here.

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Saturday in Kingsbridge

September 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Kingsbridge, RW1, The Bronx

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, [...]

Kingsbridge and Marble Hill: a mixed bag for access to healthy food.

September 15th, 2009 · Comments Off · Kingsbridge, 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 [...]