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.
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS LAUNCH NEW VISION PROJECT FOR HARLEM RIVER
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Where there’s a will, there’s a greenway - along the Harlem River. Environmental and community activists announced Monday a new plan for the Bronx bank of the neglected waterway.
The Trust for Public Land and Harlem River Working Group have secured a $35,000 grant to carry out a greenway vision project and have hired the Pratt Center for Community Development to help.
On Monday, they kicked off the project with a tour along the hardscrabble channel.
DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION UNVEILS NEW SLUDGE PLAN
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The city plans to start trucking its sewer sludge out-of-state, the Daily News has learned.
The Department of Environmental Protection has selected WeCare Organics to transport the sludge generated during wastewater treatment to rural Pennsylvania. Until June 2010, the toxic substance was handled at a stinky facility in Hunts Point, the Bronx.
SMITH ELECTRIC VEHICLES CLOSER TO BEING BRONX-BOUND
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Plans to open a $5 million electric truck factory in the South Bronx chugged ahead Wednesday, with the city approving $1.7 million in tax breaks for Smith Electric Vehicles.
The world’s top electric truck manufacturer hopes to use the benefits to renovate a 90,000-square-foot warehouse in Port Morris and create more than 100 jobs over seven years.
RAGE AT CROSS BRONX SPARKS INITIATIVE BY LOCAL DADS
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Two local fathers with an unusual type of road rage are taking on the Cross Bronx Expressway.
William Rivera and Luis Sepulveda have founded the Cross Bronx Initiative, a new push to make the infamous road faster, cleaner and safer.
An accident on Sunday on the expressway killed a 21-year-old woman and left her 20-year-old brother — a Golden Gloves boxing champ — in a coma.
Jennefer Sosa and Pedro Luis Sosa were hit by a vehicle and knocked off an elevated segment of the Cross Bronx near Zerega Ave. after getting out to inspect damage from a collision.
Segments of the road are narrow and lack shoulders.
“Everybody talks about hating the Cross Bronx,” said Rivera, 29. “Nobody talks about fixing it.”
INTERIOR CZAR SALAZAR VISITS BRONX TO TOUT HARLEM RIVER PLANS
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
President Obama’s natural resources czar swapped the Beltway for the Bronx to highlight new federal efforts to improve life along the Bronx River and Harlem River.
U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited Roberto Clemente State Park in Morris Heights last Friday to launch the New York component of the Urban Waters Federal Partnership, a new initiative to create local jobs and bring nature to Americans in cities.
ELECTRIC TRUCK FIRM ALL THE BUZZ IN THE BRONX; 100 JOBS
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
THE WORLD’S top electric truck manufacturer hopes to open a new factory in the South Bronx that could create more than 100 jobs over seven years.
Smith Electric Vehicles has requested $1.7 million in tax breaks from the New York City Industrial Development Agency to help it renovate a 90,000-square-foot warehouse in Port Morris.
JEROME PARK RESERVOIR TREES FACE AX FROM CITY
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
First the mighty oaks and lindens of Pelham Parkway were slated for removal by the city, prompting protests by Bronx tree-huggers, including Bronx native Regis Philbin.
Now a grove of about 75 trees next to the Jerome Park Reservoir is on the chopping block, community leaders recently discovered.
URBAN KAYAKERS BUOYED BY OPENING OF BRONX KILL WATERWAY
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The Bronx Kill, a waterway long closed to kayaks and canoes, could become navigable by the end of the year, buoying the spirits of urban paddlers.
Con Edison cables currently block even small boats from using the narrow strait between the South Bronx and Randalls Island.
But under rising pressure from community groups and local officials, the utility has agreed to remove the cables and open the channel, which connects the East River and the Harlem River.
MANY BUILDINGS HIT HARD BY REAL ESTATE CRASH, BUT GREEN CASTLE THRIVES
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The Bronx is ground zero for tenements and tenants hammered by the real estate crash and predatory investors, according to a new report.
