Some South Bronx tenants contend already-poor housing conditions have worsened since a group of private investors took over their buildings. But the buildings’ new manager says a multi-million-dollar rehabilitation of the properties is underway.
Immigrant laborers who left loved ones behind find a temporary salve for loneliness at nightspots like the Flamingo Club in Jackson Heights, where the price of fleeting companionship is $2 a dance.
Bike polo players and local kids who play in the Lower East Side’s Sara D. Roosevelt Park have banded to fight a proposal to turn a flat space of blacktop called “the pit†into a dogrun.
Maspeth residents are furious over plans to place a 27-foot-plus cell phone antenna – disguised as a flagpole – atop a private home. See story for a link to a map of cell phone towers in the city.
When P.S. 209 principal Jacquelyn Cannon died in May, parents, teachers and students wanted to make sure the Bronx school retained the spirit of its much-loved leader. Now they're vying to honor the "mother of the school" by renaming P.S. 209 and part of 183rd St. in her honor.
Citgo, controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, started a discounted heating oil program for needy Bronx residents two years ago. Now the energy company is backing social programs in the borough.
Two NYU students are offering an alternative proposal for the Domino's Sugar refinery: enviromentally friendly housing, complete with solar panels and wind turbines. But plans for a large apartment-and-retail complex already are in the works.
Lower East Side residents are demanding the renovation of the LaGuardia Bathhouse, which has been shuttered for three decades. The city contends it would cost too much to restore the century-old building and the pool inside.