BORO PREZ THREATENS TO SUE BLOOMBERG ADMIN OVER BASE
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is threatening to sue the Bloomberg administration over the fate of a Bronx military base.
BRONX APARTMENTS SLATED FOR RENOVATIONS UNDER NEW PARTNERSHIPS
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
New landlords are sprucing up 1,400 Bronx apartments with help from a Maryland-based nonprofit, the group announced last week.
Enterprise Community Partners recently worked with three Bronx housing firms to snag $32.9 million in tax credits and loans for the purchase and rehabilitation of 47 buildings.
BRONX PARENTS PUSH FOR KINGSBRIDGE ARMORY SCHOOLS
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Bronx parents who want books, not bombs at the Kingsbridge Armory are on pins and needles Wednesday.
They packed a public hearing last week to beg the Bloomberg administration to boot National and state Guard units from the armory annex on W. 195th St. in favor of building new schools there.
But the administration is on the verge of turning the parents down, with a decision expected Thursday on the fate of a proposed new home for the Guard.
FUTURE OF VACANT BRONX MILITARY BASES HOTLY CONTESTED
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Battles over vacant military buildings are breaking out all over the Bronx.
KINGSBRIDGE ARMORY COULD BECOME MEGACHURCH, ICE HOCKEY ARENA
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Hockey players, chefs and a televangelist could vie for space at the Bronx’s long-vacant Kingsbridge Armory.
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. will outline the ideas for the site in a 300-page report this week and call on the Bloomberg administration to pick the best plan.
HISTORIC BRONX ARMORY COULD BECOME CYCLING PALACE
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The Bronx’s long-vacant, hotly disputed Kingsbridge Armory could become a massive cycling palace, housing a velodrome and a BMX course.
A proposal submitted this spring to the borough president’s task force calls for the rundown, fortresslike building to host international racing events and free programs for kids. The armory’s large 600-by-300-foot drill floor makes it especially appealing, said would-be developer Michael Green, former president of the Century Road Club Association.
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The Bronx has become the battleground in the brawl over a City Council bill that would force city-subsidized developers to pay their workers more than the minimum wage.
Both supporters and opponents of the Living Wage bill cited Bronx construction projects and rehashed Boogie Down development fights during a standing-room-only hearing last Thursday at City Hall.
CITY COUNCIL SLAMS BLOOMBERG FOR NOT SUPPORTING ‘LIVING WAGE’ BILL
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
City Council members skewered the Bloomberg administration Thursday for opposing a bill that would mandate a “living wage” for workers in city-subsidized developments.
BLOOMBERG CAMP SLAMS ‘LIVING WAGE’ BILL
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
A controversial City Council bill that would force companies in city-subsidized developments to pay their workers more than minimum wage would ruin projects in the Bronx, the Bloomberg administration insists.
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
