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.
PARKCHESTER’S LAST TEMPLE CLOSES, MARKING DEATH OF COMMUNITY
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The last temple in Parkchester closed Monday, marking the death of a proud Bronx community.
Miriam Korman, longtime president of Temple Emanuel of Parkchester, knew years ago that her congregation was doomed.
But now that the 69-year-old brick synagogue with the stained glass windows is finally shuttered, she can hardly believe it.
“Here was our life,” said Korman, 88, sitting on a metal folding chair in the synagogue’s cold, empty basement last week. “It was our other home.”
RABBIS HIKE 15 MILES FROM BK TO BX EVERY SABBATH
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
It could be New York’s longest schlep: Every Saturday, young rabbis trudge 15 miles from Brooklyn to worship with some of the last Jews left in one Bronx neighborhood.
The ultra-Orthodox rabbis lead a small Parkchester synagogue housed in the same ramshackle building as an Islamic school and a mosque.
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN) They called for a street crime crackdown and New York’s Finest came through. South Asian community leaders are applauding the arrests of four teenagers suspected of mugging a Bangladeshi immigrant in Parkchester last month.
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN) Shaken South Asian Bronx immigrants rallied Tuesday against a rash of assaults they call hate crimes, but police said they lack evidence of bias.
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Happy birthday, Parkchester.
The “Grand Old Neighborhood” will celebrate seven decades around the Metropolitan Oval on Saturday.
