On most Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, you can find 10-year-old Joshua Anderson in a gym in Columbia, punching a heavy boxing bag that’s at least half again as tall is he is and nearly twice as ...

FLATBUSH GARDENS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- An up-and-coming professional boxer born from the concrete jungle of New York City, is using his platform to give back to kids by pushing them to achieve their ...

For too many New York City kids, the story is the same: absent fathers, gang ties, and few role models or outlets. On social media, every slight is magnified, every humiliation broadcast — pushing ...

Aiden Herzog, 12, put on a pair of blue-and-white boxing gloves and waited his turn among a group of kids ready to practice throwing jabs during a recent event with social media star Jake Paul in Boca ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — There will be shiny new treadmills, bicycles and weight-training equipment, but when the new NYC Cops & Kids Fitness Center opens next week at the Berry Homes in Dongan Hills, ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A boxing ring sits in the middle of the Pajama Factory in Williamsport. The Dream Big Boxing Foundation, a nonprofit, is offering affordable boxing classes for kids. "Sometimes in ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The importance of investing in inner city youth and creating a good relationship between the police and the community was highlighted at the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony to ...