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.
BRONX QUICKLY RECOVERS FROM IRENE FLOODING, MAYHEM
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The Bronx bounced back from Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene Monday, with commuters riding the reopened subway system and work crews cleaning fallen trees from Kingsbridge to Soundview. The summer squall buffeted the borough on Sunday, flooding waterfront neighborhoods and claiming the life of Jose Sierra, 68, who drowned in the waters off City Island. But the Bronx suffered less damage than expected, as the tempest weakened before slamming the borough.
BRONX KIDS FIGHT TO SAVE BLIND, DEAF SCHOOLS FROM CUTS
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
A column of yellow ponchos trudged down a rainy E. Tremont Ave. in Throgs Neck Wednesday - deaf students marching to save their schools.
More than 90 students waving purple pompoms and carrying signs were protesting Gov. Cuomo’s plan to slash state funding to 11 schools for the blind, deaf and severely disabled. In the Bronx the schools include St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf, the Lavelle School for the Blind and New York Institute for Special Education.
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
BRONX-BORN COMEDIAN LEAVES LEGACY OF LAUGHTER
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Comedy fans from New York to Los Angeles knew Mike DeStefano as a foul-mouthed funnyman from the Bronx who overcame heroin addiction to become a standup star.
But the people closest to DeStefano knew him as a goofball from Vincent Ave., a loving son and a man who healed souls as a drug and HIV/AIDS counselor.
DeStefano died of a heart attack last Sunday at his mother’s home in Throgs Neck. He was 44.
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
PASSION FOR BRONX PARADE KEEPS ST. PAT’S TRADITION MARCHING
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
When the bagpipes blare and the parochial school boys and girls wave amid a sea of green, Karin O’Connor remembers why she loves St. Patrick’s Day in Throgs Neck.
