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we BRING THE SOUTH BRONX TOGETHER
EJNYC Bronx Charrette
Join us for our October 2026 Local Action Committee
The Bronx Kill is right here in Port Morris, between us and Randall’s Island. Most of us only ever see it from the bridge or through a fence.
What if we could actually use it? Kayak on it, fish off the rocks, sit by the water after work? Watch our kids play?
That’s what our October monthly meeting is about. We’re continuing to build on our Waterfront Plan with Pratt Institute. Come see where the work is at, then tell us what you think the Bronx Kill should become. Your ideas and feedback shape the plan.
October 2026 Local Action Committee: The Bronx Kill
Join us for our October 2026 Local Action Committee
The Bronx Kill is right here in Port Morris, between us and Randall’s Island. Most of us only ever see it from the bridge or through a fence.
What if we could actually use it? Kayak on it, fish off the rocks, sit by the water after work? Watch our kids play?
That’s what our October monthly meeting is about. We’re continuing to build on our Waterfront Plan with Pratt Institute. Come see where the work is at, then tell us what you think the Bronx Kill should become. Your ideas and feedback shape the plan.
HEArts Groundbreaking: Community Celebration
Join South Bronx Unite and the Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards as we celebrate the groundbreaking of the new HEArts Center in Mott Haven-a 26,805-square-foot community hub for healing, learning, creativity, culture, and connection. This celebration is for you.
HEArts Groundbreaking: Official Ceremony
Join the Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards, Alembic Community Development, NYC Health + Hospitals, NYCEDC, and community partners as we celebrate the groundbreaking of the new HEArts Center in Mott Haven-a 26,805-square-foot community hub for healing, learning, creativity, culture, and connection. This is our official ceremony.
Speak Up About Heat!
Speak up about Heat: Tell us your story!
Did you know Summer 2026 brought record-breaking heat waves?
Come share your experience of living or working through this summer's extreme heat in the South Bronx. By telling your story, you can bring public attention to extreme heat, help shape the conversation, and push for real change.
No experience necessary. All ages welcomed.
September 2026 Local Action Committee: How $10 Beats Big Money
Join us for our September 2026 Local Action Committee Meeting: How $10 Beats Big Money. We’re teaming up with NYC to share how the City’s Matching Funds program works, and how we can use it as small campaign donors in the South Bronx.
We’re used to headlines about those who write big checks swaying our political system in their favor, not ours.
HEArts Summer Festival: South Bronx Immigration Appreciation
Join us for the HEArts Summer Festival at Brook Park as we celebrate immigrant communities in the South Bronx with live music, dance, food, and holistic health services. Free and open to everyone.
Beat The Heat: Youth Voices for Cooler Communities
Extreme heat is changing how we live, play, and move through our neighborhoods.
If you’re a high school student, join South Bronx Unite and Waterfront Alliance for a fun and interactive workshop where you can enjoy a meal together, explore the impacts of extreme heat, share your stories, and help imagine and collaborate on creating solutions for a cooler South Bronx.
August 2026 Local Action Committee: What should we do with the old NY Post building?
Join us for our August 2026 Local Action Committee: What Should We Do With the NY Post Building?
Bike to Randall's Island Earth Day Festival
We’re teaming up with our friends at the Randall's Island Park Alliance.
Ride to Randall's Island's Earth Day Festival with El Barrio Bikes and South Bronx Unite.
Meet up at Maria Sola Community Greenspace in Mott Haven and enjoy a scenic ride across the Randall’s Island-Bronx Connecter Pedestrian Bridge and through the park, ending at the Festival.
How Does Our Energy System Work?
How does our energy system work, and who does it work for?
Join South Bronx Unite for a community learning and visioning session on our power grid and energy justice right here in Mott Haven and Port Morris.
For too long, our neighborhood has carried the burden of the city’s energy system. We host 4 peaker power plants on our waterfront, that, in extreme heat like this, adds extra pollution to our air. Right now, we have no say it how it runs.
On Thursday the 16th, we’ll talk about changing that. We’ll break down how our grid works, explore what a community-managed cooperative virtual power plant could look like, and imagine an energy future that’s built for us.
Thursday, July 16th
6:30-8:30 PM via Zoom (free)
Spoken Word & Hip-Hop Cypher
Join our friends with the South Bronx Swap Meet for a day of art, expression, and healing at Maria Sola Green Space.
🎙 Poetry Readings
🕺 Bboy & Bgirl Cypher
🎨 Graff Workshop
👂 Auricular Therapy
🛍 Community Market
More details to come.
Stay Cool: Managing Heat Risks Workshop
The South Bronx is one of the hardest hit neighborhoods in NYC for extreme heat.
Join South Bronx Unite, The Waterfront Alliance, NYC Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene, and your neighbors in a two-part session to learn more about how heat is impacting your health, your air quality, and the local economy. Explore how to reduce your risk of the impacts of extreme heat.
Community participation will inform a community-informed South Bronx Extreme Heat Plan.
Join us at the South Bronx Unite office. Virtual attendance available.
Building Energy Justice in the South Bronx
We’re in an energy crisis. And in the South Bronx, we feel it the most. Fossil fuel “peaker” power plants pollute our air. Our families feel the squeeze of rising costs. Extreme heat, worse in our neighborhood due to a lack of green space, puts us even more at risk. In this workshop, South Bronx Unite fellows will present an alternative: clean energy, managed by and for our community. Join this virtual event.
June 2026 Local Action Committee
In Mott Haven and Port Morris, not only do we lack parks, we also lack the tree canopy to protect us from the harsh summer heat.
At this month's Local Action Committee meeting, we will add native perennials and willows to tree beds in Mott Haven and Port Morris that the NYC Parks Department informed us were unsuitable for trees.
We’ll take action together to reclaim tree pits along Lincoln Ave.
Full Moon Celebration
Join us alongside our partners at the Waterfront Alliance as we celebrate the full moon at Bruckner-Mott Haven Community Garden. We will have a workshops, music, food, and other activities.
Political Education Club: The Young Lords
Join South Bronx Unite Local Action Committee members for a discussion of The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernandez. We will bring copies of the introduction to read as a group.
2026 Bronx Food & Farms Tours: Environmental Justice in Mott Haven
Our annual “Food and Farms Tour” with the New York Botanical Garden. Learn more about environmental justice organizing in Mott Haven and Port Morris as we visit community gardens as well as sites that we’re fighting for to create more green spaces.
Local Action Committee: May 2026
Join us for our Local Action Committee to organize with neighbors about the fight for clean air, green space, and environmental justice in the South Bronx.
South Bronx Pays the Toll: Press Conference
On May 5th at 10am, just outside our office, researchers from Columbia University along with South Bronx Unite organizers will share data from our community-managed air quality monitors that showed air pollution has worsened since the launch of congestion pricing. See our data here.
Earth Day 2026: Air Purifier Giveaway + Celebration
Join as at Maria Sola Green Space and the Major Deegan Underpass for an air purifier giveaway and Earth Day celebration. We will have music and food as we celebrate our community, on land reclaimed for our community.
We will also be giving away Corsi-Rosenthal air purifiers, to help local families combat the onslaught of polluted air that enters our homes, schools, and workplaces. More details to come.
Crazy for Composting 2026
South Bronx Unite will be tabling at the New York Botanical Garden’s Crazy for Composting event.
Local Action Committee: April 2026
Join us for our Local Action Committee to organize with neighbors about the fight for clean air, green space, and environmental justice in the South Bronx.
Throwback: The Photography of Edwin Pagán
THROWBACK by Edwin Pagán is a documentary photo essay capturing the resilience and everyday life of communities in the South Bronx, Spanish Harlem, and the Lower East Side.
Featuring photographs taken between 1989 and 2015, the exhibition reflects more than 50 years of Pagán’s work documenting the strength, spirit, and youth of these neighborhoods.
Local Action Committee: March 2026
Join us for our March Local Action Committee. The Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice will be coming to share information about the city’s first Environmental Justice plan. This is a chance for us to shape it.
Local Action Committee: February 2026
In our February Local Action Committee, we brainstormed actions we want to take in 2026 with regards to land reclamation, HEArts, and the waterfront.
Local Action Committee: Air Purifier Giveaway January 2026
Air Purifier Build & Giveaway at Mitchel Community Center! The demand for these resources remains critical. Although we wish we had an infinite supply to give everyone who lined up at the door, we’ll continue to work hard to ensure our pollution-burdened community has the right to breathe clean air.
HEArts Fall Festival 2025: Flowers For Our Elders
At the Flowers for Our Elders event, we celebrated and honored six incredible, long-time activists here in the South Bronx…
Breathe Easier: DIY Air Purifier Giveaway
This past weekend, we handed out and taught community members how to make DIY air purifiers! We continue to raise awareness about the health disparities caused by polluting infrastructure — from major expressways and power plants to last-mile truck routes.
But the day wasn’t all about challenges — building these Corsi-rosenthal DIY air purifiers with families was such a fun and uplifting experience!
Special thanks to The Mission Continues and their amazing team of volunteers for making it all possible, and to MS/HS 223 for hosting us!
HEArts Center Spring Festival
The HEArts Center Spring Festival spotlighted the holistic practices and creative programming that will one day thrive at the soon-to-be HEArts Center.
Dr. Drum grounded us in our origins, using the power of the drum to guide us back to the heartbeat in our mother’s womb. We were moved by the powerful words of Bonafide Rojas, who took us on a journey through the Boogie Down. And we closed the day with Karla Mayenbeer Cruz reading her children’s book, The Adventures of Pepita Morales at City Hall—awakening both our inner child and our activist spirit. We’re also grateful to the practitioners from Qi Wellness and the Five Lights Center of Shiatsu, who helped ease our bodies, and to Samaritan Daytop Village for sharing resources and tabling with us.