Residents Push for Neighborhood Improvements at Meeting Near P.s 49
Mott Haven Herald
By: Giselle Medina
The neighborhoods of Mott Haven and Port Morris need more affordable housing, cleaner streets, better jobs and recreational spaces — and ways for young people to get involved to make that all a reality.
That was what residents argued on Saturday at a community meeting held outside Public School 49 about the future of the South Bronx.
“We’re in a community that needs so much because of some of the things that have happened over decades,” said Mychal Johnson, co-founder of the advocacy group South Bronx Unite, which hosted the weekend meeting on E. 140th St.
South Bronx Unite was founded almost a decade ago “to improve and protect the social, environmental, and economic future of Mott Haven and Port Morris,” according to its website.
