Bronx
NYC to Get New Hub for Locally Grown Food
Harry DiPrinzio |
The new Bronx distribution facility for regional food will boost supply and potentially lower price, backers say.
The new Bronx distribution facility for regional food will boost supply and potentially lower price, backers say.
The division between people who support the de Blasio administration plan to site a new jail in the Bronx to facilitate the closing of Rikers and those who don’t is about a lot more than the location.
‘We cannot simply hope that this economic development project organically ensures those most in need for economic opportunities are connected with them.’
The ferry is a big hit in the Bronx neighborhood, though there are concerns about parking.
The outreach effort precedes a likely rezoning push expected late next year.
While many Bronx politicians oppose the specific site the mayor has targeted for a new facility to partly replace Rikers Island, a vocal coalition of protesters is calling for an end to jails and policing as we know it.
A team of students from the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY spent a day talking to senior citizens in the Bronx, where—as in the rest of the city—a grayer future is coming.
‘Before this happens again, all the elected officials, school teachers, journalists, priests, ministers and rabbis should look in the mirror, and assume the responsibility for human life we have been reluctant to embrace.’
‘Real-estate interests and a hired-gun lobbyist are part of the discussion to take the site away from the proposed Bronx animal shelter.’
The administration’s first neighborhood rezoning in the Bronx and its fourth overall was unanimously approved by the Council after protesters were removed from the chamber.