We’re short-staffed today, so a quick but substantive round-up folks … Have a great weekend!
This story in the Riverdale Press caught our eye. The Amalgamated Houses, the sprawling, leafy limited-equity co-operative wedged in between Norwood and Kingsbridge Heights, has hired a new property manager, Charles Zsebedics, who was convicted for participating in a scheme a decade ago that defrauded his former company of $1.3 million. The Amalgamated’s board was well aware of Azebedics’history but did its due diligence and decided that he had learned from his mistakes and that he was the best person for the job.
Andrew Boryga, a graduate of BxNN’s youth journalism program for high school students, continues to do great work for the New York Times in between his academic pursuits at Cornell. In this Times’ City Room blog piece, which also appeared in today’s print edition, Boryga profiles artist Nicolas Dumit Estevez who had himself baptized on the Bronx River as a new Bronxite and to bring attention to his new exhibit at the Longwood Art Gallery on the Hostos Community College campus.
A plan to close 17 Bronx post offices, the most in the city, continued to roil postal workers and those who say local post offices are a lifeline for seniors and local communities.
The Daily News reports that 60 Bronx businesses are in danger of going under following the massive Jerome Avenue water main break on Wednesday morning.
Cops are looking for the shooter responsible for shooting a 5-year-old boy in the leg while he was walking with his mom near Holland and Astor avenues in the east Bronx last night.
Four police officers assigned to the Bronx district attorney’s office have been caught cheating on their timesheets, the Post reports.
Lots of tasty morsels in Bob Kappstatter’s column as usual this week, including the possibility that the financially struggling Bronx Museum of the Arts might try to emulate the Museum of Modern Art by developing a new, substantial revenue stream by building housing for artists on an adjacent property.
