City Planning says it’s been up front with the community that a rezoning is a possibility. But some wonder if it’d more accurate to say it’s a near certainty.
City Limits and Gotham Gazette put aside their long and sometimes violent rivalry to discuss Mayor de Blasio’s relationship with the press, money in the 2017 campaign, and the upcoming weeklong City Hall in the Bronx.
The proposed rezoning of a large stretch of Jerome Avenue has been put off again and again. And according to Fitzroy Christian, that’s a good thing.
Two Councilmembers sat down last week to meet a roomful of residents and workers concerned about the proposed rezoning. Questions about local hiring, business displacement, income diversity and when to say “no” were on the agenda.
Councilmembers Fernando Cabrera and Vanessa Gibson discussed the proposed rezoning with members of the Bronx Coalition for a Community Vision. Watch the video!
Bronx Councilmember Vanessa Gibson introduced a bill to protect auto shops from bad leases, a measure that could be useful in the event of a rezoning.
The people who admit to taking part in the murder of Orlando Curet can’t seem to agree whether Carl Van Putten was at the scene or what he did there. They are all out of prison. He’s sentenced to remain there forever.
750 Grand Concourse, the Bronx property linked to one of three recent cases of a bacterial infection blamed on rat urine, cut its number of housing-code violations by two thirds after the city stopped paying rent for welfare recipients who lived there.
Sure, shopkeepers and landlords sometimes fail to keep sidewalks clean. But it’s the corners of the borough that belong to no one in particular where garbage seems a permanent condition.
New York City transit has tried new methods for letting passengers know when to expect buses to arrive. But a series of observations in the Bronx this fall shows that those methods still leave people hanging.
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