Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about The Bronx

Carrion Supports Congestion and Congestion Pricing

By Brad Aaron | Oct 16, 2007 | 5 Comments

Last week AMNY ran a profile of Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Jr., playing on the angle that he may make a run for mayor in two years. The piece is mostly flattering, but does make mention of Carrion’s controversial support for the new Yankee Stadium, which, as Streetsblog readers are probably sick of hearing […]

Idle Hands

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 15, 2007 | 27 Comments

Class-cutting school kids in Bushwick and the South Bronx, fear not. The clipboard-wielding women standing outside your school aren’t looking to bust you, they’re trying to help you breathe. As reported in last week’s New Yorker Talk of the Town: The women belong to a nonprofit group called the Asthma Free School Zone, which, […]

“Not Getting Anywhere” at Bronx Pricing Forum

By Brad Aaron | Oct 12, 2007 | 5 Comments

And we thought Bloomberg had a tough crowd… Filed by Megan Chuchmach: Parking at the Riverdale Temple in the Bronx was at a premium Thursday night, with cars lining Independence Avenue in front and packing the lot out back. Inside, the owners of those cars, for the most part, raised a stink about Mayor Bloomberg’s […]

Bronx Traffic Relief Forum Tonight, 7:30pm, Riverdale Temple

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 11, 2007 | 2 Comments

Bronx Assembly member Jeffrey Dinowitz is hosting a forum tonight on Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. Speaking in favor of congestion pricing will be Kathryn Wylde, President and CEO of the Partnership for New York City. Speaking in opposition to congestion pricing will be Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities […]

City Approves Subsidized Yankee Stadium Parking

By Brad Aaron | Oct 9, 2007 | 15 Comments

Yes, the Yankees’ season is over. But on the bright side, this morning the city handed the team a nice consolation prize: $225 million in tax exempt bonds for parking deck construction at the new Yankee Stadium. Under the agreement, the city will give up some $2.5 million in taxes, with an estimated $5 million […]

Yankees’ Subsidy Deal Gets Stranger and Stranger

By Brad Aaron | Oct 3, 2007 | 10 Comments

The Yankee Stadium subsidy package is the gift that keeps on giving. If you’re the Yankees. Following up on his tour of the smelly swath of plastic turf the Yankees installed in the South Bronx after turning actual park land into a stadium construction site, Neil deMause reports in the Village Voice that a clause […]

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