And here’s a link to the latest on these Google glasses in development.
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Rally to Save MS 80
3 AprParents and teachers are rallying today to save MS 80, the central middle school in Norwood that’s on the Department of Education’s chopping block for June. A “community walk” will start outside the Mosholu Parkway school, which produced Ralph Loren and Calvin Klein, at 3:30 p.m. and lead to Mosholu Montefiore Community Center. The Norwood News has more details.
Parks Looking for Music Entrepreneurs at Orchard Beach
16 MarThought this press release from Parks Dept. might interest some readers. The good news for everyone is that more music is in store at Orchard Beach! [By the way, Bronx Matters readers, I’m out of town and the wi-fi at the hotel I’m staying at is sucky, so I probably won’t be posting again until Monday. Thanks! -Jordan Moss]
Parks & Recreation announces that a Request for Proposals (“RFP”) has been issued for the operation of a free, high quality concert series and a maximum of six kiosks at Orchard Beach, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx. “For more than 75 years, Orchard Beach has served as the Riviera of the Bronx, delighting New Yorkers with its 1.1 mile sandy beach and promenade,” said Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe. “No trip to the beach is complete without great music and Parks is seeking a concessionaire with a strong background in concert promotion and marketing to bring free, high quality summertime concerts to Orchard Beach’s visitors.”
Activist Ed Garcia Conde Arrested Last Night
9 MarI was at the Bronx Documentary Center in Melrose for a showing of The Battle for Brooklyn last night (it’s about the Atlantic Yards development controversy). I had talked to Ed Garcia Conde, a Melrose resident and activist who runs Welcome2Melrose.com right after the film and just before a panel discussion started (about the Fresh Direct deal/controversy in the Bronx). But at the end of the event someone reported that Ed had been arrested while taking pictures of the police arresting dealing with a mentally unstable person, who was later taken away by ambulance. He had been walking a friend home. Some of us went down to check it out but he had already been taken to the precinct.
Here’s what Shannon Lee Gilstad, a friend and colleague of Garcia Conde’s has to say about the incident, followed by his own report which he sent around late last night.
I’ll post more information as it becomes available.
-Jordan Moss
Morning Matters — 3/9/12
9 MarGood morning. Here’s a little bit of what’s going on in our borough of 1.4 million people.
Bronx open space advocates will unveil their plans and seek community input on a Harlem River Greenway in meetings later this month. While a chunk of the plans are only on the drawing board, some of the work is already under way.
Fordham students rallied last night to call for policy changes on how bias incidents are addressed.
After a two-year hiatus, the Philharmonic will return to Van Cortlandt Park for a summer concert.
This year the annual Armory show features a Bronx Day that will highlight art exhibits in the south Bronx.
The borough president is trying to find out whether he can meet up with his digital Facebook friends in person. A recent gathering at G-Bar showed that it’s a bit of a challenge.
Which mayoral aspirant would be the best transit candidate?
The Fired Department is giving away free batteries for smoke detectors today in the Bronx.
The Norwood Food Co-op is ramping up for another year and looking for new members.
All You Wanted to Know About Bronx Redistricting …
8 MarThree groups – La Fuente, Latino Justice and Common Cause – are hosting a community meeting in Norwood tonight to discuss how the legislative redistricting process affects Bronxites and their communties. Its being held at Mosholu Montefiore Community Center, 3450 DeKalb Ave. (corner of E. Gun Hill Road) at 6 p.m.
Film Showing & Panel Tonight Connects Brooklyn/Bronx Development Deals
8 MarBronx Matters thought readers might be interested in this event tonight at the new Bronx Documentary Center in Melrose …
Join South Bronx Unite Stop Fresh Direct; Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn; and Good Jobs New York for a screening of the award-winning documentary Battle for Brooklyn at Bronx Documentary Center.
Thursday, March 8 at 7:00pm
614 Courtlandt Avenue (@ 151st St.)
Bronx, New York 10451
(close to the 2 or 5 train at 3rd Avenue—149th
Battle for Brooklyn (93 minutes) follows the story of reluctant activist Daniel Goldstein as he struggles to save his home and community from being demolished to make way for a professional basketball arena and the densest real estate development in U.S. history.
The film will be followed by a Q&A featuring the filmmakers; Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn’s Daniel Goldstein; Good Jobs New York’s Bettina Damiani; and South Bronx Unite Stop Fresh Direct. The discussion will explore how mega economic development deals that seem isolated are connected by grassroots struggles that affect us all. Panelists will discuss the seven-year battle over Forest City Ratner’s eminent domain abuse at Atlantic yards and the current burgeoning struggle against the city’s proposal to help move FreshDirect, the online grocer, from Queens to the Bronx waterfront, where activists have long been trying to establish a greenway. Both are campaigns against destructive, undemocratic, and publicly subsidized land deals bolstered by spurious promises of jobs that, as “Battle for Brooklyn” proves, never seem to materialize.
Kappstatter’s Take on Bronx District Lines
6 MarI just got off the phone with former Daily News columnist Bob Kappstatter (Boy, do we miss Kappy’s weekly column or what?) and he pointed me to this entry on his Facebook page and authorized me to post it here. Thanks, Bob! And, stay tuned for more about this critical issue on Bronx Matters.
Okay, fast look at the Bronx winners and losers in the new congressional proposed by Magistrate Roanne Mann. I could be wrong, but:
1. Jose Serrano expands west into Soundview and gives up a small slice along the northwestern edge to go to that new Latino district that takes in Harlem and upper Manhattan.
2. Joe Crowley gives up Soundview, but keeps the white northeast Bronx and his Queens home base.
3. Charlie Rangel totally screwed out of the Bronx. Victory for Dem County Leader Carl Heastie.
4. Eliot Engel just about totally screwed since only Riverdale stays in a district that’s totally southern Westchester. He either beats a Westchester contender, or faces off against a challenger in a new district that’s totally in Rockland, without his Riverdale political support.
The link for the maps the magistrate proposes is right here: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/115548887/Regional-Layouts
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