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The POINT Community Development Corporation is a
Cirque du Monde
to provide performances and circus related workshops. * New York City Parks Department - Creation of Concrete Plant Park transfer of South Brother Island to the New York City Parks Department, and the creation of the South Bronx Greenway. *
"The Daily Plant: South Brother Island Goes To The Birds"
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
The POINT CDC official website
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The POINT Community Development Corporation is a non-profit
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...
community development corporation dedicated to youth development, culture, and the economic revitalization of the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx
The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of the Bronx. The area comprises neighborhoods in the southern part of the Bronx, such as Concourse, Mott Haven, Melrose, and Port Morris.
In the early 1900s, the South Bronx was orig ...
, from which it takes its name. The mission of The POINT CDC is to encourage the arts, local enterprise, responsible ecology, and self-investment in the Hunts Point community. The organization was founded in 1993 by Steven Sapp, Maria Torres, Paul Lipson, and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp.
The POINT CDC is located in a former bagel factory and provides performance art space, visual art galleries, after-school programs, summer camps, circus classes, and community improvement programs.
During Majora Carter
Majora Carter (born October 27, 1966) is an American urban revitalization strategist and public radio host from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded and led the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainab ...
's time as a staff member, The POINT CDC was instrumental in the creation of Hunts Point Riverside Park.
The Corporation partners with other organizations such as
* The Bronx borough based ticket distributions for the New York Shakespeare Festival
Shakespeare in the Park (or Free Shakespeare in the Park) is a theatrical program that stages productions of Shakespearean plays at the Delacorte Theater, an open-air theater in New York City's Central Park. The theater and the productions ar ...
.
* Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil (, ; "Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 ...
's outreach arm Cirque du Monde
to provide performances and circus related workshops. * New York City Parks Department - Creation of Concrete Plant Park transfer of South Brother Island to the New York City Parks Department, and the creation of the South Bronx Greenway. *
Bronx River Alliance
Bronx River Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to conserving, preserving, and improving the health of the Bronx river and surrounding environments.
Organization history
The ''Bronx River Restoration Project (BXRR),'' founded by Ru ...
- various initiatives supporting the Bronx River Greenway
The Bronx River (), approximately long, flows through southeast New York in the United States and drains an area of . It is named after colonial settler Jonas Bronck. Besides the Hutchinson River, the Bronx River is the only fresh water river i ...
including the creation of pedestrian and bike bridges between Starlight Park and Concrete Plant Park
Concrete Plant Park is a public park in the Longwood section of the Bronx, New York City. It consists of located on the west bank of the Bronx River between Westchester Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard. The centerpiece and namesake of the park ...
.
The POINT CDC's motto is defined as its "theory of change": ''"People in the community create the community in which they want to live."''
Awards and honors
The POINT CDC has received the following awards and grants: * 1999 OBIE Award Grant * 1999Bessie Awards
The New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessie Awards, are awarded annually for exceptional achievement by independent dance artists presenting their work in New York City. The broad categories of the awards are: choreography, ...
Special Achievement/Citations
See also
*Universes (theatre ensemble)
Universes (stylized UNIVERSES) is a New York-based American ensemble company of multi-disciplined writers and performers who fuse poetry, theater, jazz, hip hop, politics, down home blues and Spanish boleros to create what has been descri ...
- founded by two founders of The POINT CDC
* Majora Carter
Majora Carter (born October 27, 1966) is an American urban revitalization strategist and public radio host from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded and led the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainab ...
- former employee, and later founder of Sustainable South Bronx
Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx) is a non-profit organization which promotes environmental justice. SSBx was founded by Majora Carter in 2001.Cynthia E. Rockwell, "Breaking the Grip of Poverty", ''Wesleyan'' (Wesleyan University alumni magazin ...
* Martine Fougeron
Martine Fougeron is a French-American photographer based in New York City. Her work has been exhibited and published extensively, and collected by numerous major museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and ...
- presented photography of the ''South Bronx Trades'' at the POINT CDC.
* South Brother Island - The POINT CDC was involved in the transfer of the South Brother Island to the New York City Parks Department in 2007.Staff (November 29, 2007"The Daily Plant: South Brother Island Goes To The Birds"
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
References
External links
The POINT CDC official website
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