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Major win for Majora.(BRIEFS)
Majora Carter, executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, was named a 2005 MacArthur Fellow. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awards $500,000 each to 25 grantees nationwide each year for their "creativity, originality, and potential." Born and raised in Hunts Point, 38-year-old Carter grew up a few blocks from her office at 890 Garrison Avenue. Her environmental activism began in the mid-1990s when she opposed a municipal waste transfer station along the Bronx River. While working for The Point Community Development Corporation, she fought to reduce diesel pollution from truck traffic at the Hunts ...
- Floating pool gets smelly Bronx berth; Hunts Point lands first swimming hole,...
- Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business May 19, 2008 700+ words
...odiferous end in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx...River to a berth at Hunts Point, where it will officially...a very long time, Hunts Point has lacked any green...environmental group Sustainable South Bronx. In a word...
- Bronx scrap yard to sprout green wall; Hunts Point gets a vertical garden to...
- Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business August 25, 2008 700+ words
...The unusual design, in the Hunts Point section of the borough, is intended...Craytor, executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, the community organization...project, which will surround its Hunts Point facility on East Bay and Longfellow...
- City breaks ground on Hunts Point Park.(Construction & Design)
- Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly August 4, 2004 700+ words
...the City to clean up the site, local community organizations, including the Point Community Development Corporation and Sustainable South Bronx, developed it into an ad-hoc gathering point for community events and river-oriented activities. The property...
- FirstPerson: changing of the green guard: Majora Carter's organization,...
- Magazine article from: Parks & Recreation July 1, 2008 700+ words
...weekly entering and exiting the Hunts Point produce and meat markets. In response, Carter founded Sustainable South Bronx, a nonprofit environmental...the energy behind your founding Sustainable South Bronx in 2001? Majora Carter...
- Hunts Point industry packed tight; Demand for S. Bronx refuge overrunning...
- Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business November 10, 2003 700+ words
...of its TriBeCa space of 29 years to Hunts Point in the South Bronx. Since then, the...Bazzini has company. Indeed, being in Hunts Point has helped a number of firms to expand...estate broker who focuses exclusively on Hunts Point and runs an eponymous firm. The vacancy...
- Signature Bank Names Established Private Client Banking Team to New Hunts...
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 4, 2005 700+ words
...Vice President for the Bank's new Hunts Point, Bronx, N.Y., location. The new office, at 421 Hunts Point Avenue, takes Signature Bank into...the New York metropolitan area. The Hunts Point peninsula is particularly suited to...
- The Bronx is up: Hunts Point, the world's largest food distribution center,...
- Magazine article from: Food Logistics Terreri, April November 1, 2005 700+ words
...in the United States--relocated to Hunts Point from the lower Manhattan space it had...167,000-square-foot facility at Hunts Point. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's all...location in the transportation business and Hunts Point is in a prime location. The Nearby...
- New York Power Authority provides service to Hunts Point. (Hunts Point...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 15, 1990 700+ words
...POWER AUTHORITY PROVIDES SERVICE TO HUNTS POINT NEW YORK, June 15 /PRNewswire...cost Power Authority electricity to the Hunts Point Cooperative Market in The Bronx. The...to provide low-cost electricity to Hunts Point Cooperative Market in order to keep...
