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Street Co-Naming Honors Cancer Organization Icon Recovery, Towards Ght Ralph D’Onofrio Ralph ADVERTISING: of V.P LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 14 September 7, 2014 Your Neighborhood — Your News® Borough remembers STATE SENATE 9/11 heroes BY PATRICK ROCCHIO The borough will again stand united while remembering for the 13th year the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. RACES HEAT UP As has been the case since the heinous attacks on our country on September 11, 2001, remem- Voters to select in brances of the borough’s 143 fallen civilians and fi rst respond- Family Share In ers will take place throughout 33rd, 34th primaries the borough. A Labor Of Love One of the most well-attended BY BEN KOCHMAN ceremonies is at a permanent The waterfront communities of Two high-profi le Bronx seats in the memorial at Jacobi Medical Cen- Silver Beach, Edgewater Park and state senate are up for grabs at the polls ter’s Pelham Parkway campus Locust Point held their annual this year. listing names of borough people Labor Day events. There were In the 34th district — which covers who perished in the World Trade fl oats, swimming and relay races a large swath of the borough, including Center attacks. and a go kart competition this Throggs Neck, Morris Park, Hunt’s Point, It will take place at the me- year. Hundreds of residents took Soundview and Riverdale — incumbent morial, located next to the Staff Jeff Klein is facing challenger Oliver Kop- part. (Left) Mother/Daughter Or- House/Building #2, at 8:30 a.m. pell, a former city councilman and state on Thursday, September 11. To ange Gathering Contestants Ella legislator. R.S.V.P., or for parking arrange- Amelio (l) and Karystal May (c), Klein has endorsements from the ma- ments, call (718) 918-3827. with Eligh Hooks. More photos on jority of city and state labor unions, and “I feel that events like this pages 8-10. from elected offi cials including Mayor are important to help people deBlasio and Gov. Cuomo. The state sena- heal and give everyone the op- Photo by Laura Stone tor has touted his ability to protect his portunity to have a place where Continued on Page 3 they can meditate and be with their thoughts,” said Silvio Maz- zella, chairman of the JMC Com- munity Advisory Board, which hosts the event. “The people remembered are all unsung he- Street co-naming honors ros and we should never forget them. They all contributed to, and stand for, our freedom.” Fellow JMC CAB member Al D’Angelo said that the occa- cancer organization icon sion is a time for solemn remem- brance, patriotism and for bring- BY STEVEN GOODSTEIN passed away exactly one year ery and treatment, they took it ing the country together. A recent street co-naming earlier. upon themselves. They started In addition to the Jacobi re- took place on Newbold Avenue Jahi Williams-Simmons their own non-profi t – Survival membrance, Borough Present near the Cross Bronx Service was a recreational therapist at Instinct – The Network Inc. in Ruben Diaz Jr. and the Supreme Road to commemorate the life Queens Children’s Psychiat- 2006. The group promotes can- (L-R) Clara Williams, Tia Williams, Mat- Court of Bronx County will host and deeds of a cancer activist. ric Center from 1975 until 2005 cer awareness, early detection, an event to remember the fallen The unveiling of Jahi Wil- when his wife, Sylvia, was di- prevention and healthy living. tie Williams, Naim Abdul-Ali, Sylvia at Lou Gehrig Plaza at East 161st liams-Simmons Way took agnosed with breast cancer. “If I needed it, they needed Williams-Simmons and Tamika Phillips Street and the Grand Concourse place on Saturday, August 31, When Jahi and Sylvia were it,” said Sylvia Williams-Sim- pose in front of the newly co-named on Friday, September 12. People in honor of an organization unable to fi nd the right pro- mons, referring to those di- Jahi Williams-Simmons Way on August Continued on Page 4 founder and family man who gram to fi t her needs for recov- Continued on Page 4 31. Photo by Aracelis Batista A CNG Publication • Vol. 673 No. No. 36 5 • Vol. 67 No. 5 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BXTIMES.COM Armory businesses feel the ‘chill’ BY BEN KOCHMAN their fi ngers that their Ramos, vice president mos. and should be willing to Kingsbridge Armory- building’s new manage- of the Kingsbridge Road The rest of the shops accept some sort of rent area shops can still afford ment will offer them a Merchants Association. plan to wait it out until increase for a “prime” lo- their rent — but for how long-term lease. Merchants are at least December, before pushing cation across the street long is a mystery. For now, the stores at happier with their Sep- for a new lease of at least from the Armory. Over a dozen mom-and- 2-12 W. Kingsbridge Road tember situation than three years, said Ramos. He added that the pop businesses across the and 2643-2647 Jerome Av- they were in July, when “In January, we need building’s new manage- street from the Armory — enue are still stuck in new management com- to sit down and have a new ment has already started soon - to be a world-class month-to-month leases un- pany Levites Realty sent lease,” Ramos said. investing in new utilties ice center — are crossing til December, said Chris out notices demanding Levites, the manage- at the site. doubled rents. But the lo- ment company, has yet to “These are profes- cal shops, including the respond to repeated re- sional landlords, and they popular New Capital Res- quests for comment from will treat the tenants pro- taurant on the corner, as this newspaper. fessionally,” he said. BRONX WEEKLY September 7, 2014 2 SeptemberBRONX 2014 WEEKLY 7, well as a nail salon and But an unoffi cial liason And while the busi- African grocery, are not between the shops and the nesses across the street exactly feeling comfort- new management claimed sweat it out, the Armory able. that the two sides were at itself remains vacant for “I can’t say how long we least talking. now. are staying, but they can “They all absolutely Developer KNIC closed kick us out whenever they know where they stand a deal with the city in De- want,” said a business now, more than they did be- cember 2013 to convert the owner of another shop on fore,” said Steve Lorenzo, vacant Armory into the the strip, who declined to a broker with real estate world’s largest ice rink be named for fear of being fi rm NAI Friedland. center. Developers are tar- Lucy Saavedra’s Jerome Avenue specifi cally targeted by Lorenzo says he has geting a 2017 opening date. fl ower shop across the street management. spoken with the building’s But construction has not A pair of businesses new management, though yet started on the complex, from the Kingsbridge Armory have already bitten the he is as of yet not on their with three former mem- is facing a more-than-doubled dust. A tax offi ce and gift payroll. bers of the development rent starting in August. She An aerial view shows some of the 13 stores (right side of photo) shop have decided to leave Lorenzo said that many team currently squab- says the hike will likely force impacted by stiff rent increases due to their proximity to the Ar- the building and pursue of the shops were paying bling in lawsuits over con- her to shut down. mory (l). other options, said Ra- below market-rate rents, trol of the project. 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The can- about the issues that we Farms — a former opera- didates talked of increas- are facing as a family, we tive for Barack Obama is ing economic possibility know exactly what our on the ballot, among other through creative loan initi- families are facing every local leaders. atves, and were concerned single day,” he said. Michael Blake, who that the big malls coming Alvarez was at the de- spent years working on into the Bronx would hurt bate, but decided to leave campaigns for the Presi- small businesses.
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