Daniel Beekman
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Bronx Dem Party endorses Gillibrand
February 18, 2010 | 6:23pmBorough Democrats prefer her Gilli-brand. The Bronx County Democratic Committee endorsed incumbent United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in her Fall 2010 bid for election on Wednesday, February 10.“I am proud...
Van Nest resident campaigns for animal shelter
February 18, 2010 | 6:23pmIf the Health Department fails to build an animal shelter at the Old Fordham Library in Community District 7, expect to hear from animal rescuer Bernadette Ferrara.Ferrara, who sits on...
6 IRT station rehabs
February 18, 2010 | 6:23pmThank goodness for the Bx4 bus! New York City Transit has announced that it expects 6 IRT straphangers to use the Bx4 as a free substitute for seven months while...
Grocers plan to expand
February 18, 2010 | 5:05amBronx leaders and labor groups bristled when it appeared that a new supermarket proposed for the Kingsbridge Armory would benefit from public subsidies. In late 2009, the supermarket and a...
Seabrook surrenders committee
February 18, 2010 | 5:05amStorm-battered Councilman Larry Seabrook resigned as chairman of the City Council’s civil rights committee but clung to his primary post on Thursday, February 11, as some former challengers circled like...
Borough president taps new BOEDC president
February 18, 2010 | 5:05amMarlene Cintron, tapped to run the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation on Valentine’s Day weekend, attended Senator Jose M. Serrano’s sixth grade graduation.Cintron has known BOEDC board member Kath Zamechansky...
Rubber rooms rub Sen. Diaz wrong way
February 18, 2010 | 5:05amSenator Ruben Diaz Jr. bounced angry remarks at the city and the Department of Education outside the Bronx “rubber room” on Thursday, February 11.Diaz and Assemblyman Marcos Crespo called on...
Unionport co-op leader fussed over Mitchell-Lama
February 18, 2010 | 5:05amMany Mitchell-Lama apartment buildings, constructed in the 1950s and 1960s to house middle-income Bronx residents, are on the ropes. Before 2008, when New York real estate boomed, scores abandoned Mitchell-Lama,...
Friend of vets launches monument campaign
February 18, 2010 | 5:05amRay Trillo thinks the borough owes its veterans more. The Castle Hill resident and retired Department of Corrections employee has designed a modern monument to Bronx veterans and wants to...
Teen mentor pushes Community Board Athletic League
February 18, 2010 | 5:05amAbdul “Sleep” Johnson is a carrot and stick thinker. Teens love sports and video games, he contends. Why not use sports and video games to encourage civic participation? Why not...
Puppy-nap unsolved
February 11, 2010 | 3:01pmBugzy isn’t back. The whereabouts of the year-old Yorkie pup, who disappeared near Ferry Point Park on Saturday, January 16, remain unknown. Neighbors witnessed an apparent puppy-napper yank Bugzy into...
Bronx Haitian worries about family
February 11, 2010 | 3:01pmWhen news from earthquake-shattered Port-au-Prince reached the Bronx, Haitian-American doctors packed for home. Haitian-American clergyman gathered donations.Beckson Ganiche failed to reach his mother by phone. Then Ganiche, 22, unleashed his...
P.S. 71 student moonlights at Guggenheim
February 11, 2010 | 3:01pmModern art, meet paper mache. Upper East Side, meet Pelham Bay. Tino Sehgal, meet Hannah Ludemann.The Guggenheim Museum selected Ludemann, a Pelham Bay resident and sixth grader at the P.S....
Homeowner wants Marvin mapped
February 11, 2010 | 3:01pmNo one seems to know why Marvin Place, a block-long street near the New York Westchester Square Medical Center, was never added to the city map.Not that Ragnauth Singh cares....
BCC to boot University Heights High School
February 11, 2010 | 5:00amHow does one persuade a high school student from a rough Bronx neighborhood to try college? The answer, teachers at University Heights High School argue, is simple. Plunk that student...
Menna can't make ends meat
February 11, 2010 | 5:00amSome fifty years of rib eye and rump roast, spare rib and tenderloin on E. Tremont Avenue in Throggs Neck ground beef to a halt in late January, when Menna’s...
Tuna hooks a show at Hunts Point market
February 11, 2010 | 5:00amJoe “Tuna” Centrone, gregarious wholesaler at the Fulton Fish Market, cast a new line on life in 2005. Heavy since childhood thanks to his calorific Italian grandmother, Tuna underwent lap-band...
Afrika Bambaataa goes Mojofiti
February 11, 2010 | 5:00amPeace, love, unity and…Mojofiti?Bronx legend and hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa, who played early “break beats” at the Bronx River Houses and coined the Universal Zulu Nation motto – “peace, love,...
13-story development divides Belmont
February 11, 2010 | 5:00amThey waved signs. They chanted. They testified.“If not for my sisters – the nurses at Med Alliance, I would not be here today,” said Theresa Camp-Castro, partly paralyzed in 2006.Med...
Bronx champ, Clottey, unknown
February 11, 2010 | 5:00amNear Yankee Stadium on Anderson Avenue, a muscle-hound man slams the door to his modest apartment. On the street, he starts to jog. No one gasps. No one points. No...