Posted on 17 September 2022. Tags: city council, ferry point, golf, Parks, Trump
City council members are calling on the parks department to cancel a contract it holds with Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point, a golf course in Throggs Neck. Parks and Recreation Committee Chair Shekar Krishnan and Councilperson Marjorie Velázquez were joined last Thursday by members of 9/11 Justice, an advocacy group for victims and families […]
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Posted in Politics, Southern Bronx, Sports
Posted on 17 September 2022. Tags: Bronx, Education, housing, The Bronx
Bronx residents voiced concerns Tuesday, over a proposed development that would include a new school and apartment complex at the site of the former Church of the Visitation at the first in-person Community Board 8 meeting since the pandemic. Tishman Speyer, a real estate investment firm, purchased part of the former site of the Church […]
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Neighborhoods, Education, Housing
Posted on 17 September 2022. Tags: Bronx, Crime, police, South Bronx
A handful of Longwood residents gathered at their latest neighborhood policing meeting Thursday, with their chief complaint being noise in Bill Rainey Park. “The park needs to close at dusk… it’s not fair to us, every night it’s a concert… I got kids going to school,” said Lisa Thomas, who has been a Longwood resident […]
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Posted in Crime, Police, Southern Bronx
Posted on 15 September 2022. Tags: Bronx, Education, The Bronx
Approximately 400 students in New York’s 36th district will start this school year with new supplies after The Office of State Senator Jamaal T. Bailey hosted a back-to-school giveaway on Saturday. Children from preschool to high school received backpacks, drawstring bags, folders and writing utensils. Katian Henderson, a Bronx resident for over ten years whose […]
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, East Bronx, Education
Posted on 15 September 2022. Tags: 9/11, Bronx, Bronx Borough President, community, The Bronx
The Office of the Bronx Borough President and the Bronx Supreme Court co-hosted “A Day of Remembrance” on Tuesday, commemorating the lives of the 144 Bronx residents lost during the September 11 terrorist attacks. The event took place at Lou Gehrig Plaza where Vanessa L. Gibson, Bronx Borough President, was in attendance. “Oftentimes, they say […]
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Life, Bronx Neighborhoods, Police
Posted on 22 October 2019. Tags: CITYFEPS, CITYFHEPS, Evictions, family, Housing Court, HRA, Morris Heights, welfare
Laura Collar fidgeted in place outside the fourth-floor courtroom in the Bronx Housing court on a Friday morning in September. The 34-year-old tenant waited to inform her landlord’s lawyer that she’d been granted another 12 days extension before they evict her from the Morris Heights apartment in the West Bronx where she lives with her […]
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Housing, Housing injustice FHEPS
Posted on 17 October 2019.
On March 13, 2005 Luis Rodriguez got up in the early hours of Sunday morning to catch the subway from the St. Lawrence Avenue Station near his Morissania home to travel to Pelham Bay for a fishing trip on his day off. The then-35-year-old HVAC technician and father of two was standing on the edge […]
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Posted in Money, Morrisania
Posted on 15 October 2019. Tags: Department of Education, Education, education policy, gifted and talented
A recommendation that Mayor Bill de Blasio phase out all New York City gifted programs has left the fate of gifted education in the Bronx uncertain. If implemented, the programs, which are comprised predominantly of black and Latino students, would come to an end.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, East Bronx, Education, Education, Featured, Front Page