From mean streets to green jobs
Listen to the podcast Four years-ago, Mott Haven resident Pablo Negron, 24, was jailed for assault. When he was released, he settled for one of the few jobs that would employ someone with a criminal...
View ArticleNYCHA owes tenants jobs, advocates contend
By Stuart M. White stuart.m.white@gmail.com The New York City Housing Authority has reneged on a decade-old commitment to put job-hungry tenants to work making the buildings they live in cleaner and...
View ArticleAnother Green Career Center graduate earns fresh start
Isaac Rivera, 44, learned about the Green Career Center, a workforce development program run by the Osborne Association, while serving time for a drug charge at Rikers Island. When he was transferred...
View ArticleFrom prison to a fresh start
At 17, Francois Blood received a wake-up call when he was sentenced to 10 to 20 years behind bars. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Blood moved to New York in 1998 and had been in the city for less...
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Hyde’s ‘green dean’ thrilled to be back
Joe HirschThe new dean of students at Hyde Leadership Charter School, Stephen Ritz, talks with parent Gina Smith. Advocate for green jobs, healthy food, will help lead charter school Many of the...
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