Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about The Bronx

Eyes on the Street: Inside the Stadium

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Here are snapshots of the scoreboard at Yankee Stadium last Sunday. (The Yanks beat Toronto, 7-5.) Despite the perceived parking hardship, average attendance at the stadium has been 52,739 this season, an all-time record. Naturally, this casts further doubt on the need for all those (all together now) publicly funded parking spaces — a project that has already caused actual […]

No Vote on Stadium Deal by Bronx Borough Board

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We wrote a couple weeks back that one of the problems with the new Yankee Stadium parking subsidy deal is that the Bronx Borough Board has yet to vote on it — perhaps because board members, along with the borough president himself, are still waiting for information on the project from the Industrial Development Agency. […]

Meet Your Industrial Development Agency

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Last week, the board of the New York City Industrial Agency postponed a vote on whether to subsidize the construction of parking facilities at the new Yankee Stadium through the issuance of $225 million in triple tax exempt bonds. Streetsblog has no word yet on when the vote will occur, so in the meantime here […]

Vote Postponed on Yankees Parking Subsidy

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In an unusual move, the board of the New York City Industrial Development Agency (IDA) this morning postponed a vote on whether to issue tax-free bonds for parking facilities at the new Yankee Stadium. At a hearing last week, residents of the South Bronx, along with public advocates, protested the $225 million triple tax exempt […]

Nasty, Personal, Elitist and Not a Bronxite

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PlaNYC identifies North Riverdale, a neighborhood represented by Bronx Assembly member Jeffrey Dinowitz, as one of 22 New York City neighborhoods with a higher than average concentration of Manhattan-bound drivers. (Download the transportation section, page 86) Bronx Assembly member Jeffrey Dinowitz wasn’t happy with Streetsblog’s presentation of his Riverdale Press editorial against congestion pricing last […]