With money collected by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo from polluters, Rocking the Boat in Hunts Point, BOEDC and other non-profits will expand efforts to keep storm water from carrying pollutants into the Bronx River. Rocking the Boat and BOEDC will focus on the water that cascades from the roof of the giant ABC Carpet outlet in Soundview. The full story is in The Hunts Point Express.
Rocking the Boat will use its share of a grant package from Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to partner with BOEDC in an effort to keep pollutants out of the Bronx River. Other funds collected by the AG’s Bronx River Watershed Initiative from polluters in Westchester will go to the Botanical Garden and to nonprofits for tree plantings, community gardens and to establish a mussel colony. The full story is http://brie.hunter.cuny.edu/hpe/?p=4448 in The Hunts Point Express.
The headline pretty much sums it up.At 2:45 p.m., about four hours before he was scheduled to appear at a debate of 33rd Senate District candidates at Fordham Lutheran Church, Christopher Malone, the policy director for Gustavo Rivera’s campaign, wrote us an e-mail to say Rivera would not be attending the debate. Instead, Malone said Rivera would be attending a candidates’ forum in the east Bronx, near Westchester Square, an event hosted by the Bronx branches of the NAACP.Last week, Rivera’s campaign said he would participate in the debate, organized by Transportation Alternatives at Fordham Lutheran Church, which the Bronx News Network will be moderating. On Monday night, Rivera participated in a debate with fellow candidate Dan Padernacht on the talk show, BronxTalk. Pedro Espada Jr., the incumbent in the 33rd Senate District, has refused to debate his fellow candidates.Yesterday, Dan Levitan of the Working Families Party, which is working on Rivera’s behalf, said he didn’t think Rivera would attend tonight’s debate, adding that he felt Padernacht was in the race to smear Rivera.We reached out to Rivera’s campaign yesterday – as did organizers for Transportation Alternatives – to see if, indeed, he would be backing out of his commitment. There was no response until Malone’s e-mail
Looks like Adriano Espaillat’s campaign thinks he has an Espada problem – that is that voters may confuse the assemblyman who is running to fill the 31st District Senate seat of attorney general hopeful Eric Schneiderman with Pedro Espada, the incumbent state senator in the neighboring 33rd District. They’re both Latino of course and share the first four letters for their last name, but Espaillat apparently wants to make sure that voters know the similarities end there. This flier was distributed in at least one building in Riverdale this morning.
The Bronx News Network will be moderating a debate tonight at 7 p.m. at Fordham Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2430 Walton Ave. (just south of Fordham Road) between candidates of the 33rd Senate District.The debate is being hosted by nonprofit groups Transportation Alternatives and Picture the Homeless, so there will be questions about transit and homelessness. We will also be asking about other issues affecting the 33rd District and taking questions from the audience. Come, participate and get answers so you can make an informed decision on Sept. 14 (if you’re a Democrat) and Nov.
Bad news for Senate buddies Pedro Espada, Jr. and Ruben Diaz, Sr.:
Despite the issuance of court orders temporarily restraining the city from enforcing rules that curtail art vending in four city parks, parks department officials have continued to try to enforce them, artists say.
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