Residents of the Soundview houses where Judge Sotomayor grew up are told to wait until 2012 for basic repairs
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The forgotten building
Posted on 13 December 2010.
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Trying to stop the killing
Posted on 31 October 2010.
Danny Barber organizes an anti-violence youth rally in response to a rash of shootings.
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Rezoning confusion for Norwood’s business owners
Posted on 20 October 2010.
Business owners on Webster Avenue contemplate their fate if new zoning policy takes hold.
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Moshe Piller: How a New York Landlord Works the System
Posted on 18 May 2010.
After 18 months of rehabilitation for a broken hip, all that Eta Eckstein wanted was to go back home to her Brooklyn apartment. The 92-year-old Holocaust survivor had lived at 8750 Bay Parkway for 40 years, but when her son visited her apartment while she was still at the Shore View Rehabilitation Center, he found a red eviction notice on the door.
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Water Rates Increase has Bronxites Irate
Posted on 07 May 2010.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection heard from angry Bronxites last night who reject a proposed 12.9 percent increase in their water bill.
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Put Some Cork in it!
Posted on 03 May 2010.
The world according to Ken Bollella, cork manufacturer.
Posted in Bronx Tales, Housing, Money0 Comments
Tenants Speak Out on Canceled Section 8 Vouchers
Posted on 15 April 2010.
South Bronx resident Lachonnz Morton fears losing her home of 33 years, after the city cancels Section 8 housing vouchers.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Housing, Money, Politics, Southern Bronx4 Comments
New Landlord for Troubled Building but Tenants Are Skeptical
Posted on 07 April 2010.
Repairs have started in the building left by previous owner with more than 200 violations.
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