NEWS RAIL SERVICE FOR EAST BRONX GAINING STEAM
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Imagine a brand new passenger rail line built over the next decade for $1 billion less than the No. 7 subway extension.
It may sound like fantasy, but a game-changing Bronx rail project is on track and gaining steam, transit insiders insist.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Bronx leaders are all aboard a plan to bring Metro-North service to the East Bronx for the first time.
PLANS FOR BRONX SKATING RINK NOW ON ICE
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The city is putting its plans for a Bronx skating rink on ice.
The Parks Department has announced it won’t fulfill Mayor Bloomberg’s promise to bring an ice rink to Van Cortlandt Park this winter because it and Con Edison can’t supply enough electricity to power the outdoor facility.
DONALD TRUMP SIGNS DEAL TO RUN BRONX PUBLIC GOLF COURSE
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The city has picked The Donald to run its newest public golf course.
Donald Trump’s company has signed a 20-year license deal to operate the links-style course under construction at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx, the Parks Department announced Friday.
BRONX FAMILIES WIN APPEAL IN COURT BATTLE OVER BEACH
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Good fences make good neighbors, the maxim goes. But on the Bronx waterfront, they make bitter lawsuits.
Throgs Neck residents this week scored a second court victory in their battle over the rocky beach at the end of their narrow street.
STATE CAN BOUNCE ESPADA NETWORK FROM MEDICAID: JUDGE
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
A Bron judge on Thursday upheld the Cuomo administration’s decision to dump ex-state Sen. Pedro Espada’s Bronx health care network from the Medicaid program.
The decision could spell the end for Espada’s Soundview Health Care Network because Medicaid bucks account for some 70% of its funding.
TENANTS AT MOUNT EDEN BUILDING SUE FOR LACK OF COOKING GAS, REPAIRS
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Tenants at a Bronx apartment building that had no cooking gas for Thanksgiving and will have none for Christmas are suing the landlord they call “The Grinch.”
More than 30 angry tenants gathered outside 1520 Sheridan Ave. in Mount Eden on Tuesday to protest their treatment by Jonathan Wiener, principal of Chestnut Holdings. The Riverdale-based landlord didn’t respond to requests for comment.
MORRIS PARK BEMOANS NO HOLIDAY LIGHTS ON SHOPPING STRIP
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in most Bronx neighborhoods, but not in Morris Park.
For only the second time in half a century, there are no holiday lights along Morris Park Ave. and Williamsbridge Road.
UTICA TEEN SHOT DEAD IN THE SOUTH BRONX
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN AND ROCCO PARASCANDOLA (NYDN)
A masked gunman shot and killed an upstate teen who was back home in the Bronx to visit his grandparents Monday night, police said.
Justin Williams, 16, was shot in the stomach by a man wearing a ski mask in Mott Haven about 11:40 p.m., cops said. The gunman fled with an accomplice, also wearing a ski mask, and is still being sought.
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS LAUNCH NEW VISION PROJECT FOR HARLEM RIVER
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Where there’s a will, there’s a greenway - along the Harlem River. Environmental and community activists announced Monday a new plan for the Bronx bank of the neglected waterway.
The Trust for Public Land and Harlem River Working Group have secured a $35,000 grant to carry out a greenway vision project and have hired the Pratt Center for Community Development to help.
On Monday, they kicked off the project with a tour along the hardscrabble channel.
MEDICAL RESEARCHERS LINK SOCCER HEADERS TO BRAIN DAMAGE
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Brain researchers from the Bronx are scoring big with some heady soccer research.
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center researchers are working to make the popular sport safer for athletes all over the world, using new medical imaging technology purchased with funds allocated by the City Council.
Led by radiologist and neurologist Dr. Michael Lipton, their work has shown that repeatedly heading a soccer ball increases the risk of brain injury. Beyond that, brain imaging and cognitive tests have revealed a never-before-known danger threshold: 1,100 to 1,500 headers per year.
