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Tour Company Shamed Into Dropping "Ghetto" Tours Of The Bronx: Gothamist
I find the idea loathesome, but that being said, I find it funny that so much outrage is being directed at these folks. Maybe if people put that much passion into fixing things, there would be nothing to see.
Renderings: Kingsbridge Armory Will Be "World's Largest Indoor Ice Facility": Gothamist
So the Bronx is about to get the world’s largest indoor ice facility. Great, because, as you know, the Bronx really digs its ice-related activities.
What an unbelievable waste of money, time, and space.
Check Out The Beautifully Restored East 180th Street 2/5 Station In The Bronx: Gothamist
This is all well and good, and it’s really great that they did $65m worth of work on one station, but come back to me in a month after the animals have a chance to tag it, deface it, vandalize it, and scratch it, because people in the city simply don’t take care of “nice” things and this one won’t be any different.
Dumbass Wants To Develop an Assisted Living Facility on City Island
Sometimes I wonder if people have the brains in their head that they were born with. This guy wants to build a 214-unit assisted living facility on City Island, a quaint harbor town in the Bronx that also has the unique distinction of getting flooded and damaged in every single storm that hits the Bronx.
What the hell is he thinking?
And coming on the heels of what happened in the Rockaways, it’s even more ridiculous.
NYC's Most Delicious Mozzarella Is At Casa Della Mozzarella In The Bronx: Gothamist
I could’ve told them that. It’s absolutely spectacular.
Five feet from death - Pelham Parkway Now a Death Trap
Long story short.
1. City tears up old street.
2. City replaces street and adds new sidewalk on opposite side of street that previously was not there, making street 5 feet narrower.
3. Firetrucks can no longer extend stabilizers if they use their ladders or cherry pickers.
4. Firetrucks cannot make turn onto narrow side streets because they cannot swing out wide enough.
5. City claims the firefighters can get through.
6. Firefighters claim they can’t and have demonstrated as much on video to every news outlet in the city.
Conclusion? The city spent $6m refurbishing a street and made it less useful and more dangerous, then continue to argue that it isn’t in spite of piles of evidence that it is.
This, my friends, is government at work.
I wish I could be back here in that weather. God I miss winter.
Yesterday’s Snow (by Vincent Ferrari)
Anonymous asked: Your remark:"And you can bet your ass that these are the same residents who talk about the lack of businesses in the area, the lack of investment in the community, and the lack of engagement on the part of large companies with the “community.”" is odd. There are far better plans and uses for $130 million of our public money to create investment opportunities. This is just corporate cronyism and shifting jobs from one place to another. Learn more at: boycottfreshdirectDOTcom
There are always going to be better uses for the money, but the reality is that there isn’t exactly a b-line moving into that neighborhood; a neighborhood full of people constantly whining about how downtrodden the area is.
The city is full of this idiocy. Complain about how the economy is sinking then completely oppose any economic development that’s ever proposed. That’s not to say it’s all good, but you have to start somewhere and the tougher people make it for business number 1 to enter the area, the less likely business number 2 will be to bother with it at all.
Will Rangel Finally Get The Boot Today?
There’ll be two congressional primary races in the Bronx when voters go to the polls on Tuesday.
But the only contest that really counts will be a make-or-break one for veteran congressman Charles Rangel.
With redistricting changing Rangel’s longtime heavily black Harlem district into a majority Latino district stretching into the Bronx, he is facing a strong challenge from northern Manhattan/lower Riverdale Senator Adriano Espaillat and three other challengers.
Rangel, who just turned 82, has been battered by ethics issues, and most recently, back problems that have him using a walker to get through a grueling campaign.
He has the support of a heavy chunk of the Bronx political establishment, including Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Bronx Democratic Party Boss Carl Heastie.
I think it’s about time to hang it up, Charlie.
(Source: bxtimes.com)
Activists Fight Fresh Direct Move To Bronx
Fresh Direct may be more of a health hazard than a health option, a group of south Bronx residents and organizations are charging.
They’ve filed a suit against the residential fresh food deliverer trying to stop it from moving its operations to public waterfront at the Harlem River Yards will use about $130 million of public money.
The lawsuit filed June 13 in Bronx state Supreme Court, calls for FreshDirect to conduct a comprehensive analysis of how the move might negatively affect the environmental health and quality of life of south Bronx residents.
Representatives from New York Lawyers for the Public Interest said the move would add thousands of diesel truck and car trips daily to an already over-polluted community with high rates of asthma.
And you can bet your ass that these are the same residents who talk about the lack of businesses in the area, the lack of investment in the community, and the lack of engagement on the part of large companies with the “community.”
Just like the idiots who argued the US Army should get out of Vieques in Puerto Rico, only to watch as the economy fell apart when they did.
(Source: bxtimes.com)
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