Fernando Martínez for El Diario
Fan and Bronx resident Luis Arzola was geared up to cheer for his team on opening day.
‘For a whole year, this place has been like a graveyard,’ one Bronx worker told El Diario of the area around Yankee Stadium. The venue reopened to fans last week for the first time since the pandemic struck.
‘Supportive housing has been notably absent from most mayoral candidate housing discussions in spite of the fact that our homelessness crisis is the worst on record – and that it disproportionately impacts Black and brown New Yorkers. It is time for that to change.’
Do his comments on casinos, yeshivas and the teachers union suggest that his campaign has not done its homework?
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