A group that offers free legal services to low-income Bronx residents will be getting a new and improved home at the busy HUB commercial corridor, at Brook Avenue and E. 149th Street, a number of local elected officials announced last week.
Legal Services NYC-Bronx will move into a commercial condominium that’s being built as part of City-sanctioned development project on a stretch of undeveloped property at the HUB. When completed, the group’s new offices will feature a green space and be fully handicap accessible, according to a press release sent out by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., who is one of several Bronx representatives working in support of the project.
“We at Legal Services NYC-Bronx are overwhelmed by the show of support we have received from Bronx elected officials in our quest for a new home. For years, we have been searching for an office that is large enough for our seventy person staff, for all of our clients to receive services in confidential and dignified surroundings,” said Jennifer Levy, the group’s director.
Legal Services NYC-Bronx serves 10,000 Bronx residents a year, offering legal help to domestic violence victims, disabled and disadvantaged children and assisting in medical access, elder abuse and eviction and foreclosure cases. The group was one of several organizations working last year on behalf of the Bronx Milbank tenants, who were seeking to get conditions in their dilapidated and foreclosed buildings repaired.