From the editor: A school the neighborhood needs
by bstein The Huntspointexpress Three decades ago, Hunts Point was the location of an adventure so visionary and so daring that many people branded it as nuts. In the midst of the catastrophe that had overtaken the South Bronx, on a rubble-strewn three-plus acre lot next door to the sewer plant, an organization called Bronx Frontier Development Corporation created a farm. Bronx Frontier hauled vegetable waste from the Hunts Point Market and animal waste from the Bronx Zoo, composted it to create topsoil to spread over the wasteland, and planted a vegetable crop. Converting as much as 40 tons of waste a day to a rich growing medium, it captured the gas created during the composting process and used it to generate electricity. It erected a windmill to produc...