Two years after the City Council killed a plan to turn the long-vacant Kingsbridge Armory into a giant shopping mall, the city is once again seeking development proposals for the 600,000-square-foot, castle-like structure.
This week on the Bronx Breakdown we break news about Discovery High School teacher Steve Ritz whose successful program somehow landed him in the basement and unable to continue the work he started. Plus, speaking about the unspeakable violence over jackets, the Bronx's famous new resident and what you should do this weekend.
some local news stories we're following this morning on Breaking Bronx.
We are about to head down to Morris High School, on Boston Road near East 167th Street, the site of Mayor Bloomberg's annual State of the City address, which will be preceded by a protest in the school's parking lot.
In an interview with Crain's NY today, Mayor Bloomberg said the city will issue another request for proposals to redevelop the Kingsbridge Armory with a few new tweaks.
For Bronx Occupy Wall Street activists, perhaps no meet-up location was more apt than in the shadow of the new Yankee Stadium. The dozen or so protesters that had assembled beside the McDonalds on 161 Street and River Avenue said that despite city involvement in the project, the community has yet to see the benefits of the new billion-dollar ballpark.
Happy Wednesday, readers! The latest print issue of the Norwood News is hitting the streets today, and it’s chock full of good stuff: an update on the living wage debate, a look at the end of Clinton’s football season, a farewell to Sal of Sal’s Pizza fame (he’s retiring this week) and more. Pick up […]
The old school grassroots organizers with the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition have found an energetic new ally in the growing number of demonstrators with the nascent Occupy the Bronx movement.
By David Greene This past Saturday, demonstrators from the nascent Occupy the Bronx movement joined forces with old guard grassroots organizers from the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition to collectively call out big banks for their role in creating in the country’s economic crisis. But first, each group held their own separate assemblies on […]
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