The Bronx Times & Bronx.com

Highbridge Stands Up For Building A Better Community

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:45:00 -0500

the community of Highbridge will give testimony against the placement of 200 men in the Promesa Basic Men's Center (formerly known as Stadium Family Center) .

kathy

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:54:59 -0500

its a shame we gotta walk around our very own community watching over our shoulder or even be afraid of sendin our children to and from school

Marvin Wiggins

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:50:30 -0500

FYI: I grew up in High Bridge Projects way back in the fifties, sixties and some of the seventies. It was a great place to live then. What happened to the pride of High Bridge?

redear

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:55:43 -0500

I just got an e-mail about this. It has zero facts and is rife with platitudes and generalities of injustice. Where do you want to banish these people instead?
There are disparities, why do you not enumerate them and identify communities that have less of a proportion of services, rtaher than utterly dehumanize our own people?

agnes Johnson

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:36:22 -0400

Redear. Do some more research. There is dumping going on. A transitional shelter is not a home. That means people are recycled thru a warehouse system every 3 to 5 months. The issue is not the shelter. The issue is policy that dumps complex and sociological problems on and already traumatized community. The issue is not the shelter. The issue is greed and the lack of respect for the "INDIVIDUAL'S RIGHTS" over a corporation's business venture. The state plans to run the communities like a business a RACIST business and we then have been eliminated from the equation. Our streets aren't plowed We are living in the highest rate of poverty. This might work well for Promesa and DHS but this doesn't work for the Highbridge Community. I do hope this gains momentum and history shows that it started in Bronx.