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.
POLICE ARREST FIVE PEOPLE TO BREAK UP OCCUPY THE BRONX RALLY
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The national wave of Occupy crackdowns swept through the South Bronx Saturday, as police arrested five people and broke up an Occupy the Bronx rally at the site of a community garden razed by the city.
Four activists and a freelance journalist were handcuffed on the sidewalk outside a vacant lot at Southern Blvd. and Union Ave. in Mott Haven, formerly the Morning Glory Community Garden.
They were the first Occupy the Bronx activists arrested since the movement formed in October.
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.
MORE AND MORE BIG-BOX RETAIL DEVELOPMENT PLANNED FOR BRONX
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
When it comes to big-box retail development, the Bronx is booming. New shopping centers are slated for Kingsbridge, the Hub and now Co-op City.
Prestige Properties announced Wednesday plans to develop The Mall at Bay Plaza, a $270 million shopping center anchored by a new Macy’s department store.
The 780,000-square-foot project will be built on a vacant plot at Bay Plaza, the Co-op City shopping mecca that is already the city’s largest retail complex.
GRAND CONCOURSE HISTORIC DISTRICT TO GET LANDMARK STATUS
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The Bronx’s grandest thoroughfare is finally getting the recognition that many borough residents believe it richly deserves.
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission expects to approve today the designation of a Grand Concourse Historic District.
FEDS EYE PROJECTS IN BROOKLYN, BRONX FOR LABOR ABUSES
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Illegal labor is the foundation of the city’s affordable housing industry, construction workers and union leaders claim.
Mayor Bloomberg has vowed to build and preserve 165,000 units of affordable housing by 2015. But Hizzoner’s push is coming under scrutiny, with a top contractor headed to trial for wage infractions at an East Harlem project and a housing agency bigwig arrested Oct. 6 for corruption.
Now the U.S. Labor Department and the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development are probing underpayment and kickbacks at affordable housing projects in the Bronx and Brooklyn, the Daily News has learned. At the Bronx site - 780 Prospect Ave. - workers are due $575,000.
FEDS HOPE TO BRIDGE GAP OVER BRONX GREENWAY PLAN
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
A troubled bridge over Bronx water has greenway advocates singing a melancholy tune and the federal government scrambling to save the planned span.
Part of the Bronx River Greenway, the bridge over an Amtrak rail line will eventually carry pedestrians and cyclists between two new waterfront parks and complete the scenic route.
But the bridge project is now years behind schedule, due to a squabble between Amtrak and the state Department of Transportation and has lost its funding.
MTA TEES UP PLAN TO SELL DRIVING RANGE FOR RETAIL DEVELOPMENT
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The MTA is shopping a golf driving range to land buyers, marketing the Bronx property as ripe for big-box retail development.
The 14-acre plot in Pelham Gardens is one of nine city-owned tracts that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to lease or sell, the agency recently announced, following a review of nearly 4,000 holdings.
STELLA D’ORO COOKIE FACTORY TO BE RAZED FOR MALL
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The sale of the 5-acre Kingsbridge property to real estate developers underscores the decline of manufacturing and rise of retail development in the borough.
WILL BANANA KELLY MAKE SOUTH BRONX BLOCK MORE APPEELING?
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Banana Kelly is making a comeback. The famed community organization - named after a banana-shaped block in the South Bronx - will help renovate five dilapidated Kelly St. buildings ravaged by years of neglect.
