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.
BRONX COMMUNITY DEBATES NEW PLAN FOR BANKNOTE BUILDING
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
When Taconic Investment and Denham Wolf Real Estate bought the historic BankNote building in 2007, they vowed to remake the South Bronx behemoth as high-end office space and a hub for the arts and gourmet food.
Then the market went bust.
Now the developers want to remake the BankNote as a hub for food stamps.
CANCER BENEFIT AT HUNTS POINT PRODUCE MARKET PACKS PUNCH
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Three-time Golden Gloves champion Livingstone Joseph of the Bronx is determined to destroy his opponent when he makes his professional boxing debut on Saturday night.
He also plans to crush cancer.
HUNTS POINT PRODUCE MARKET WEIGHS IN ON WALMART
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The Hunts Point produce market is opposed to Walmart opening in New York, whether the retail giant buys fruit and veggies from the market or not.
COQUI THE CHEF FROG MASCOT TELLS PR KIDS TO EAT RIGHT
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
A 6-foot-tall frog will hop down Fifth Ave. during next month’s 54th annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade, telling kids to eat healthily.
Coqui the Chef, a cuddly green mascot whose true identity is South Bronx mom Tania Lopez, encourages sound nutrition to combat diabetes and obesity.
CONTROLLER LIU TOURS SOUTH BRONX, VOWS TO VET HOMELESS CONTRACTS
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
City controller John Liu traveled to the South Bronx Tuesday for a walk, a talk and a tango.
The city’s chief financial officer and head auditor toured resurgent Longwood and Hunts Point, met with his deputy controllers at the South East Bronx Community Organization and danced with old folks at a senior center on Southern Blvd.
NOTORIOUS SPOFFORD JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER FINALLY SHUT DOWN
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
For 54 years, the gate at Bridges Juvenile Center clanged shut behind troubled youth, confining them to a hulking concrete lockup plagued by fights and abuse.
But city officials slammed the gate on Bridges Wednesday and celebrated its permanent closure, using an oversized, ceremonial padlock to shutter the infamous Hunts Point facility formerly known as Spofford.
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
FULTON FISH MARKET’S PRIME WHOLESALER DROWNING IN DEBT
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
One the city’s largest and oldest fish wholesalers is floundering.
M. Slavin & Sons, a prime tenant at the Bronx’s New Fulton Fish Market has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing a tidal wave of debt. The 100-year-old wholesaler to restaurants and supermarkets is headed by octogenarian owner Herb Slavin, a fish market icon.
HUNTS POINT RESIDENTS PROTEST STRIP CLUB
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Nicole Rivera has high hopes for her future and that of her South Bronx neighborhood, and they don’t include topless dancing.
