The city wants us to get out and exercise more. But the rules say one place we can’t work out is in park playgrounds. Is there a way for kids and kinesthetics to share these spaces?
At the end of a week-long saga starting with an assumption that the piano in Williamsbridge Oval was stolen followed by a Parks Department admission that its sanitation crew discarded it, Sing for Hope, the nonprofit group that provided the piano, had this to say on Saturday:”Sing for Hope was informed today by the NYC Parks Department that the missing piano at Wiliamsbridge Oval was mistakenly removed from the park by sanitation staff.
The Kingsbridge Armory, on West Kingsbridge Road. (File photo by Adi Talwar)Editor’s Note: This story was first published in the latest issue of the Norwood News, on the streets and online now.By ALEX KRATZ Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. has made it clear redeveloping the vacant 575,000-square-foot Kingsbridge Armory into a quality-job-producing, vibrant community space, is a top priority of his administration. But a much-anticipated report created by an Armory task force he assembled was released with little fanfare earlier this month and appears to generate more questions than answers. On June 21, Diaz’s office quietly released the 267-page report, which included no clear plan for financing the redevelopment. It detailed all of the meetings of the task force, which included union reps, health care industry leaders, developers, community activists and elected officials.
We missed this in our earlier roundup. Joel Rivera, the City Council’s majority leader is going to work for RE/MAX Results, a Bronx real estate broker based in Throgs Neck.Rivera, now a “newly licensed sales associate,”
Hope everyone had a good holiday weekend!Weather: Bright and sunny today with a high of 92! Stay cool folks!Story of the Day: Ever wonder what the NYPD does with confiscated fireworks? Watch the video of the NYPD’s disposal of 5, 000 pounds of fireworks at a firing range in the Bronx.Quick Hits:Councilman Larry Seabrook, who is awaiting trial on corruption charges, made headlines today because he is trying to give taxpayer money to an unlicensed after-school program.
Despite their traditional appeal as a way to get tough kids off the street, youth boxing programs are struggling to survive as foundations favor programs whose success is easier to measure.
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