The city plans to relocate a 16-ton pile of snow-removal salt from the banks of the Harlem River to an enclosed spot closer to housing. That’s rankled some East Harlem residents, who cite health concerns and are upset trees will be uprooted to accommodate the pile, Angela M. Hill reports.
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Many New Yorkers were busy plugging leaks during April’s record-breaking rain storm, but for Lydia Vega and her family, the downpour only made a bad situation worse.
“It was like it was raining in the apartment,” said Denise Rivera, 21, who lives with her mother in the problem-plagued Hunts Point I complex on Coster Street in the Bronx.
Leaks are nothing new for Vega, who pointed to three spots where rainwater routinely pours from her ceiling. For months, the sharp odor of mold from a four-foot-wide leak above her kitchen stove has permeated her apartment, overpowering the smell of dinner cooking. More »
In the city that never sleeps, 311 gets about 1,000 noise complaints a night, ranging from barking dogs to music-blaring bars.
 TV REPORT: Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal to charge drivers entering Manhattan south of 86th Street $8 a day faces a long road to approval. Jego Armstrong reports on the controversial congestion pricing plan, which pits motorists against environmentalists. |
…MEANWHILE, SMALL BUSINESSES FEAR BIG LOSSES By CAROLYN NARDIELLO
NYCity News Service
A few times a week, Joshua Bienstock loads his black, four-door Dodge Neon with a box full of binders, a power-point projector, a briefcase and a laptop.
He then drives his sedan, whose odometer has long clicked past 145,000 miles, from Queens into Manhattan to teach dispute resolution seminars and conduct labor-training classes for city union members.
The commute from Forest Hills that now takes him 25 minutes would take more than an hour and a half by mass transit, and with all those materials, “It would be virtually impossible,” he explained.
Almost every day for the past 28 years, Arthur Wood has hoisted himself to the upper stories of his Clinton Hill home to hammer, paint, and weld an unfinished dream he calls Broken Angel. Although he wears his own hard hat, he has never labored at a construction site or adhered to blueprints.
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TV REPORT: Former St. John’s standout Sharif Fordham’s hopes for an NBA career died after an injury and a brush with the law that put him behind bars. Khadijah Cole reports on how Fordham pieced his life back together – and is living another kind of hoops dream by helping teens at a youth center. |
Bedbugs are back. An itchy scourge for the tenement dwellers of early 20th century New York, bedbugs were beaten into submission with DDT during the ’50s and ’60s. But in the past decade, the city Housing Authority has seen a sharp uptick in the number of bedbug complaints.
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