In neighborhoods after neighborhood, plans to build shelters or supportive housing attract protests from residents worried about crime, disruption and reduced property values. When the protests end and the facilities open, are those fears realized?
Federal regulators will soon decide whether to permit a pipeline to run under the Rockaway Inlet, connecting the Brooklyn-Queens natural gas grid to a transcontinental pipe three miles offshore.
In the second of part of our series on a development process that spanned much of the Bloomberg administration, we look at how parks fare under this deal—and others.
Perhaps no project embodied the Bloomberg administration’s development style better than Willets Point. Will Joe Lhota or Bill de Blasio change that approach?
Rain today in the Bronx will supposedly give way to sunshine tomorrow. To the news!Story of the Day: Bronx Bus Crash Story ContinuesFederal investigators met yesterday with Ophadell Williams, the driver of a tour bus that crashed on I-95 in the Bronx on Saturday morning, killing 15 passengers and severely injuring six others. Legal experts say Williams, an ex-con who served time for manslaughter, is unlikely to be charged with a crime unless he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs or if he demonstrated a pattern of reckless driving before the crash. The NY Times staked out the crash site, near the on-ramp to the Hutchinson River Parkway, to find tour buses passing by ever so cautiously. On Monday night, another Chinatown tour bus bound for Philadelphia crashed on the Jersey Turnpike, killing two.
This is a tale of the very type of government secrecy that we would like to see less of and that we are advocating for during Sunshine Week. In late fall of 2009, the Norwood News sent an inquisitive young intern named Megan Taylor to Harris Field in Bedford Park to see how the massive reconstruction of soccer and baseball fields was coming along. She came back with a scoop. Workers there told her construction had halted following the discovery of some kind of contamination.We immediately pressed the Parks Department for more details. What kind of contamination is it?
Editor’s Note: This story first appeared in this month’s issue of the Tremont Tribune, on the streets and online now.FILE PHOTO BY JAMES FERGUSSONEric Stevenson is barely into his first term as an assemblyman, but he’s already pledged to take Albany on, swinging.His first battle? Tackling Gov. Cuomo’s proposed budget cuts, which take an axe to funding for state agencies and programs across the board in an attempt to reduce the state’s huge deficit.“There’s going to be some uprising from the South Bronx, and the 79th District,” the new legislator said during a phone interview from Albany.“He’s talking about $1.5 billion in cuts to education, and then $2.8 billion to Medicaid,” Stevenson said. “What is that going to do to a district like mine? If I don’t stand up, what do my constituents say?”Stevenson, whose 79th Assembly District includes East Tremont, parts of Bathgate, and large portions of the South Bronx, is no stranger to the neighborhood, or to the local political scene.Before his Assembly run this summer, he was a Democratic district leader, and he’s worked for several legislators, including former Bronx borough presidents Fernando Ferrer and Adolfo Carrion and, most recently, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.Stevenson’s family has political roots in the district: his father was also a district leader and his grandfather, Edward A. Stevenson Sr., was an assemblyman here.Stevenson was sworn in at an inauguration ceremony at Morris High School in January. Since then, he’s been learning the ropes in Albany, where he’s been assigned to the Assembly’s committees on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Corrections, Government Operations, Veteran’s Affairs and Housing.“I’ll accept it,” he said of his committee assignments.
Many Flushing residents object to their treatment in the wake of a terrorism investigation, and they’re doing something about it.
With runoff elections on Sept. 29 and the general election arriving just five weeks later, a roundup of City Limits political coverage is in order.
Election Guide: Roundup of City Limits political coverage is in order.
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