"People come out here and they go 'We're in the Bronx?'" recounted Mike Carew, a former NYPD detective diver who owns Captain Mike's Diving on the island. "I grew up in a small neighborhood where everybody knew everybody and they help each other. City Island is like that."
"They pee and they poop over there. They're around my store, the exit area. Every day I have to clean around there. If they don't see anybody they poop on the escalator."
The proposed $300 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could structurally undermine food security for low-income families, particularly in the Bronx, where one-third of residents depend on SNAP.
"In 1999, Pops was on a business trip to Venice, CA, when he saw the beach's famous streetball culture up close...he wanted to bring that same energy back to New York."