PLANS FOR BRONX SKATING RINK NOW ON ICE
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The city is putting its plans for a Bronx skating rink on ice.
The Parks Department has announced it won’t fulfill Mayor Bloomberg’s promise to bring an ice rink to Van Cortlandt Park this winter because it and Con Edison can’t supply enough electricity to power the outdoor facility.
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.
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.
STATE CAN BOUNCE ESPADA NETWORK FROM MEDICAID: JUDGE
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
A Bron judge on Thursday upheld the Cuomo administration’s decision to dump ex-state Sen. Pedro Espada’s Bronx health care network from the Medicaid program.
The decision could spell the end for Espada’s Soundview Health Care Network because Medicaid bucks account for some 70% of its funding.
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.
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 ACTIVISTS WIN RIGHT TO SEE CITY RECORDS ON SHELTER
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The scales of justice may once again be tipping toward the Bronx, with local activists scoring another court victory against the city Department of Homeless Services.
An appellate division judge has ruled that the agency must cough up records related to the controversial siting of a 38-unit homeless shelter in 2009 on St. Peter’s Ave. in Westchester Square.
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.
OFFICIALS TO UNVEIL INCENTIVES FOR ZERO-EMISSION TRUCKS
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Gov. Cuomo wants the Empire State to keep on trucking - and do it clean and green.
Zero-emission trucks sold in New York will now come with $20,000 checks from the Feds via the state, thanks to a new incentive program designed to improve air quality and the environment.
State officials will unveil the program on Tuesday in the Bronx and leading electric truck manufacturer Smith Electric Vehicles will confirm plans to build a $5 million factory in the borough.
