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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Kingsbridge'
Lost Jobs, Lost Family
December 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Journalism, Kingsbridge, RW1, The Bronx
Tags:Connor Boals·Journalism·Kingsbridge·RW1·Stella D'Oro·The Bronx·The Bronx Ink
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.
Tags:Connor Boals·Jobs·Kingsbridge·Stella D'Oro·The Bronx Ink
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 [...]
Tags:Kingsbridge·Marble Hill