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May 22-28 2015 Your Neighborhood — Your News® SERVING PARKCHESTER, HUNTS POINT, FORDHAM SOUTH, GRAND CONCOURSE, FORDHAM NORTH, BRONX NORTH, CO-OP CITY TRAFFIC PLAN CONTROVERSY BY PATRICK ROCCHIO Board 10’s Municipal Services dent of the Throggs Neck Mer- There is a friendly dis- Committee on Tuesday, May chants Association, and the agreement brewing over a De- 12, similar ‘road diets’ have organization’s board member partment of Transportation been shown to reduce speed- John Cerini. plan to tame a curving stretch ing and crashes. “I feel we need to stop it be- of East Tremont Avenue in The committee voted with cause I think it will cause ma- Waterbury-LaSalle. six in favor, out of ten mem- jor traffi c congestion,” said Councilman James Vacca bers present, to support the Kaufman. “I don’t have confi - is supporting the city DOT plan, said CB 10 district man- dence it will stop (near) Bruck- proposal reducing travel lanes ager Ken Kearns. ner Boulevard.” from four to three for a third of “That stretch of East Trem- Kaufman said he feels that a mile between Waterbury Av- ont has dangerous curves, the plan could eventually be enue and Meyers Street (near constant double parking, and expanded to the end of East Bruckner Boulevard). traffi c moving too fast,” said Tremont Avenue. But several local mer- Vacca, who added, “There is Cerini believes that if chants, concerned that the no doubt that something has implemented, the proposal plan could be expanded into to be done.” will further back up Throggs parts of Throggs Neck and “We did have one bad ac- Neck traffi c, adding that it is slow down traffi c and com- cident there, and I don’t want already backed up past the merce, plan to oppose the to wait for a second or a third Bruckner Boulevard overpass idea. before we install traffi c con- into Throggs Neck going to- The proposal also calls for trols,” he said. wards Westchester Square. widening the parking lanes The plan will slow down He also feels that shoppers and creating a center left-turn traffi c in the area, said Kearns, from the Square and Pelham lane, counted as one of the with an aim of creating pedes- Bay could decide not to visit travel lanes. trian safety. Throggs Neck because of slow According to a DOT pre- All this does not sit well moving traffi c, impacting sentation before Community with Steve Kaufman presi- Continued on Page 71 Bronx mortuary service outsourced BY ROBERT WIRSING ers starting Monday, June 1. Staten Island and the Bronx’s If you never had the oppor- Decedents from the north offi ces to a more easily acces- tunity to visit Queens or Man- Bronx will be transferred to sible location in these bor- hattan during your lifetime, Queens for mortuary services oughs, however no locations you may get your chance to do while south Bronx decedents were specifi ed. so after death. will be sent to Manhattan. The spokesperson added, On Thursday, May 7, the OCME said the consolida- identifi cations are never made city’s Medical Examiner’s Of- tion of mortuary staff and re- by viewing the body in person, fi ce announced a surprising sources to three locations will but for any family asking to decision to shift both Staten improve operational effective- view their loved one after the Island and the Bronx’s mor- ness. identifi cation is made, OCME tuary services to neighboring The borough’s offi ce will will make arrangements at no Bollywood At The Square boroughs. remain to provide identifi ca- cost to the family. Lalitha Dance Company performed at Owen F. Dolen Park on Sat- The Bronx Medical Exam- tion services allowing loved Most families speak to med- iner’s Offi ce, presently based ones to see photos of the dece- ical examiners over the phone urday, May 16 as part of the 3rd Annual Bollywood in The Bronx in in Jacobi Medical Center’s dent and to speak with a medi- about their loved ones, but for Westchester Square. Photos on page 48. Photo by Patricio Robayo campus, will transfer their cal examiner over the phone. any that wish to speak to one mortuary services and work- OCME plans to relocate Continued on Page 71 A CNG Publication • Vol. 21 No. 21 www.bxtimes.com GoFor To More Our Blog Information To See Our Weekly Visit Specials!Us At VistVisit Our Our New www.bronxdentistny.comNEW Web-ite: Web-Site: www.reliablebronxdentist.com www.reliablebronxdentist.com GOT IMPLANTS DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT COME SEE US (718) 547-5280 2 BRONX TIMES REPORTER, MAY 22-28, 2015 BTR Bioswales to divert CB10, 11 rainwater BY JAIME WILLIAMS ter out of the sewer system. said. Community boards 10 Types of infrastructure The process to bring bio- and 11 will soon be getting can include green roofs, rain swales to the Bronx River wa- greener. barrels, greenstreets in un- tershed in the western part of The NYC Department of der-utilized roads space or bio- the Bronx will begin later this Environmental Protection has swales in the sidewalk. year. brought its green infrastruc- The bioswales are about 5 Members of CB 11’s Lead- ture program to the Bronx. feet deep, fi lled with an engi- ership Committee were recep- Bioswales, greenspaces neered mix of rock and sand, tive to the idea of green infra- in the sidewalk designed to and topped with plants. They structure overall, but were collect stormwater, will be are placed upstream of catch wary of the $25,000 price tag installed throughout the basins, and cuts in the bio- for each bioswale that will be Westchester Creek watershed swales’ curb aim to divert wa- paid for by revenue from the in the eastern part of the bor- ter running down the street city’s water rates. ough. into the greenspace where it “I disagree with the The green infrastructure will be stored and used by the amount of money they’re go- initiative, started in 2011, is plants. A tree guard protects ing to spend,” said board mem- a city-wide effort by DEP to the other three sides of the ber Joe McManus after the improve water quality in the space. meeting. city by reducing the amount A representative from McManus said he’s con- of stormwater that ends up in DEP presented the informa- cerned that the bioswales the city’s century-old sewer tion about the forthcoming won’t divert enough water to system, where it mixes with infrastructure to Community compensate for the larger in- sanitary water. Board 11’s leadership commit- frastructure defi ciencies. During or after heavy tee on May 18 to bring them up “Basically they’re little rains, water from the sewer to date on the already-in-pro- sponges,” he said. exits the system at designated cess project. CB 11 vice-chair Al points into the city’s water- After conducting hydraulic D’Angelo said he was also con- ways in order to avoid over- analysis in the area and walk- cerned that the middle class whelming the wastewater ing through with DOT to iden- A bioswale in Brooklyn collects stormwater.