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Bainbridge Water Project Enters Second Phase | pg 7
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By JOSEPH KONIG, 202nd Street from 11 stories to sources for everyone around going development projects in DAVID CRUZ, and 9 stories, shrinking the num- here,” remarked Jesus Moran, Bedford Park. The building CHRISTY RAE AMMONS ber of units from 164 to 139. a 20-year resident of Bedford projects represent a kind of A non-profit housing devel- In the original proposal, the Park. “You have to build more last straw by the board, given oper is open to reducing the size East 203rd Street building was business, whether it’s grocery the sheer size of the projects on of planned projects on long-con- planned to be 8 stories with 164 stores or pharmacies and all incredibly narrow streets ini- tested lots on East 202nd and units. It is unclear if the revised that.” tially meant for smaller homes. 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Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan for students who missed the tempts to make things equal. system and not to black and gle that from New York City to expand the Discovery pro- cutoff in passing the special- Pacific Legal Foundation is Hispanic students, but to ev- culture. But it still persists. gram as a way of increasing ized high school test—takes having none of it. ery poor student. Expanding The best schools are typically enrollment of black and La- effect in 2020, when 20 per- While other factors could it to the entire system pro- found in affluent neighbor- tino students in the city’s elite cent of specialized high school hamper upward mobility, it’s vides equal protection. This hoods, with poorly perform- specialized high schools has seats will be reserved exclu- clear that a quality education should at least net a better ing schools in low-income drawn the ire of Pacific Legal sively for black and Hispanic is a critical key towards that percentage of the 67 percent neighborhoods, a status quo Foundation. students who pass Discovery. change in socioeconomic sta- of black and Hispanics stu- the city is rightfully attempt- The group is now suing As it stands, 10 percent of tus. And with 54.1 percent dents that make up the sys- ing to fix. the city in federal court, rely- black and Hispanic students of blacks and 33.7 percent of tem. Discovery’s exclusivity It can take decades to ing on an argument similar are enrolled. At the much cov- Hispanics comprising the is as problematic as a special- undo the damage of dividing to an affirmative action case eted Stuyvesant High School jail population at Rikers Is- ized high school’s. over diversifying. De Blasio, it has against Harvard Uni- in Lower Manhattan, for in- land, according to 2018 statis- Pacific Legal Foundation good or bad, is attempting versity: Discovery essentially stance, only 10 black students tics, it’s clear something has doesn’t care about that. Their to do that. Any student who discriminates against Asian were offered placement into to be done. winner-take-all mentality ig- feels they’ve been left out of students who overwhelmingly the freshman class of 2018. Pacific Legal Foundation’s nores decades of structural the program should consider represent the specialized high There are 902 seats in all. argument that the program racism that’s led to the eco- lobbying their New York school student population. Discovery, as an immedi- violates equal protection nomic disenfranchisement of Council members in build- Expanding the Discovery ate substitute for repairing under the law could be neu- minorities. Much of that has ing another specialized high program—essentially offer- deep-seated problems within tralized by equally offering impacted black and Hispan- school. The demand is clearly ing rigorous summer classes the school system, at least at- Discovery across the entire ics. It’s been tough to untan- there.
Post Office Reliability open most of the time. She said be- I just read your article in the cause she couldn’t get in the other Norwood News about the closing of two it wasn’t fair that we got our ,ETTERS 4O 4HE %DITOR the post offices in our area. It was mail, and the others didn’t because very well done, thank you. I am a she couldn’t get in. If they can get senior citizen who has lived in this in a building, they are supposed Bronx DA’s Stance on Gangs serving 20 years to life. So you area for over 35 years. I can’t get to deliver the mail. I can’t walk Among the cases Julia Rist deals can kill somebody and get out in around very well as I have a bad to Gun Hill or afford to “cab” it. I with in her excellent article in 20 years. back problem, and I use the Van shouldn’t have to. the December 6-19 Norwood News Pedro’s deal will have the Cott Station all the time (I still I was told yesterday that she was about Private Detective Manuel charges dropped this coming May write letters and cards). offered the “master key” and still Gomez is that of Enger Javier, his if he proves he enrolled in college. I have another problem for you didn’t deliver mail, and said she first client. Javier spent two years When I enrolled at Baruch College to investigate if you can. We have didn’t have it and that she would at Rikers Island awaiting trial for in 1975, nobody told me I was enti- not received mail in our building come on Monday, Dec. 17, 2018 to involvement in a murder he had tled to assault and rob somebody. since about Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018. get the key. What’s wrong with to- nothing to do with The DA’s history of leniency to- I have been trying with my land- day, Friday, Dec. 7, and Saturday? Gomez found video proof that ward thugs includes the case of lord (62 Realty Corp. P.O. Box 926, I don’t understand how she is get- the murderer was Jose Muniz and Jose Adorno, a superintendent at Monsey, NY 10952) to contact the ting away with this, but the post of- the charges were dropped. But he an East 176th Street building who post office at Williamsbridge. They fice is no help in this matter. I bet- could not convince District Attor- stabbed Ronald Griffin, blinding never answer the phone. I finally ter get all my mail. ney Darcel Clark to prosecute Mu- him in his right eye. This assault got an answer from the main post Is there any way you can get niz. Now she’s prosecuting Muniz happened Jan. 2, 2017 when Grif- office, it took three days and hours some answers on this? I think it’s for later killing Lesandro “Junior” fin came to the aid of his gay step- on hold or callback. important to get it out in the open, Guzman-Feliz son, Joey Brown. The homopho- We are a three-building com- I would appreciate it. Feel free In the Dec. 9 Daily News is an ar- bic Adorno had been harassing plex [in Norwood]. It seems that to call me if you have questions I ticle by Shayna Jacobs and Thomas Brown. Clark thought that 60 days the delivery person paid the super. haven’t answered. Tracy concerning the dropping in jail served on weekends was The super refused to give her keys JoannePerry of robbery and assault charges enough punishment for Adorno. to the buildings. Our building was Norwood against Pedro Hernandez. Accord- Who was Clark tough on? She ing to law enforcement sources, tried to get NY PD Sg t. Hugh Barry, Hernandez and his sister robbed who shot dead a woman swinging an 18-year-old man who was wear- a bat at his head, convicted of mur- ing an “R.I.P.” shirt mourning the der. Thankfully, the judge wasn’t death of Edwin Molina, who was buying and he acquitted Barry. murdered by Hernandez’ brother, Richard Warren Jesswill. Jesswill is currently Van Cortlandt Village 4 • December 20, 2018-January 2, 2019 • Norwood News INQUIRING PHOTOGRAPHER By DAVID GREENE This week we asked readers their thoughts on the city Department of Transportation (DOT) plans for a “road diet” which calls for converting two-way Morris Park Avenue from a double lane to a single lane roadway for each way.
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By DAVID GREENE ing the summer months are gang mem- Police have arrested two men they bers, she replied, “I’m not going to talk say assaulted and robbed a 17-year-old about that.” from Bedford Park before throwing him The area of Bainbridge Avenue and into oncoming traffic, causing his death. East 194th Street is notorious for drug The fatal toss ranks as the seventh ho- dealing. Last October seven people were micide within the 52nd Precinct, which rounded up and charged with distribut- had a 200 percent homicide increase this ing potent amounts of the opioid fenta- year. The Bronx continues to lead the nyl. city in homicides in 2018. One elderly resident not afraid to Police confirmed that the two sus- speak out, claimed, “The kids sell drugs pects charged in the killing were mem- over there and we told the police about bers of the Trinitarios gang. it during a meeting in the spring. They Officers from the 52nd Precinct re- knew about it.” sponded to calls of a pedestrian struck Police identified the two suspects as outside of a private home at 2670 Bain- members of the Trinitarios, the same bridge Ave., between East 194th and East gang authorities said killed 15-year-old
196th streets, at just after 6 p.m. on Dec. Photo by David Greene Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz in Bel- 10. A MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL is established in the area where the victim, Angel Reyes- mont this past June. Officers discovered Angel Reyes- Godoy, was struck by a vehicle on Dec. 10. “The common denominator here Godoy, a resident of the block, with se- again is, we have Trinitarios gang mem- rious head trauma. He died a short time with murder, robbery and assault, while charged. bers. Some of the same set that was men- later at St. Barnabas Hospital. The fol- Adames was charged with assault and The entire block was shut down for tioned in the earlier ‘Junior’ Guzman lowing day the case was ruled a homi- disorderly conduct. the rest of the night as the NYPD’s Crash case,” said NYPD Chief of Detectives cide by the Office of the Chief Medical The unidentified driver of the white Investigation Unit processed the crime Dermot Shea at a Dec. 12 NYPD press Examiner (OCME). 2009 Ford Econoline ambulette that scene. One woman looking to park her briefing, referring to the teen who was Thanks to a tip to the CrimeStop- struck Angel, stopped at the corner car on the block was told of the cause for pulled out of a deli and killed in the Bel- pers hotline, police officials announced of East 196th Street and remained at the street closure, and she responded, mont section in June, in a case of mis- the arrests of Mario Almonte, 20, of East the scene for police. One resident said “These kids are going crazy, I swear.” taken identity. 201st Street and Obeb Adames, 18, of the driver was seen “pacing back and Asked if the group of teens or young Investigators believe the killing had Marion Avenue. Almonte was charged forth” after striking Angel, but was not men often seen playing basketball dur- (continued on page 7) 6 • December 20, 2018-January 2, 2019 • Norwood News A Historic Sign for the Namesake Behind Risse Street Park
By DAVID CRUZ priately on Risse Street, overlooking Learning about Risse Street Park’s the northernmost section of the Con- ancestry is not exactly common knowl- course near Jerome Avenue. edge to Norwood residents. In a few The sign is welcome news to mem- months, residents passing the tiny bers of Risse Street Community Gar- park will know the name. Pssst: it’s the den, who primarily use the space to grandfather of the Grand Concourse. cultivate vegetables and other green Tom Campanella, a Cornell Uni- plants. In a joint statement, members versity professor and city Parks De- of the garden expressed pride that the partment Historian in Residence and garden gets its name “after such an in- his assistant, Zachary Falk, a student spirational man who had the vision to from Cornell University, have been design such a magnificent boulevard tapped to draft a brief history of the giving our Bronx its very own Champs Norwood park. Elysees.” The findings will be included in a “Highlighting Mr. Risse’s name new signage slated to be installed by will certainly help give our commu- the Parks Department as part of its nity a sense of pride and connection to Historical Sign Program. The almost the past,” the statement concluded. 20-year program has acknowledged Mosholu Parkway and Williams- nearly every park, tracing the origins bridge Oval Park are among those of each park, a biography after whom with historical signs. Risse Street the park is named, and other interest- Park represents some of the last few ing facts. parks without a historical sign on dis- Risse Street Park’s namesake comes play. from Louis Aloys Risse, a city engi- Campanella was unavailable for neer and Frenchman who designed the comment. A spokesperson with the Grand Concourse in 1890. The park, city Department of Parks did not re- less than an acre, is formally known turn emails seeking comment on when as Risse Street Triangle. It rests appro- the sign would be unveiled.
Photo by David Cruz RISSE STREET PARK is home to Risse Street Garden. December 20, 2018-January 2, 2019 • Norwood News • 7 Bainbridge Water Project Enters Second Phase
By DAVID CRUZ tered into the second phase connects to a distribution Travelers driving of the project, with EIC As- system. through the northern edge sociates Inc. set to install A spokesman for the of Bainbridge Avenue fi- a massive trunk main city Department of Design nally can breathe: the mas- that won’t disrupt service, & Construction (DDC), sive construction project is but will likely expand the the agency overseeing the no longer blocking drivers search for parking. project, said no water ser- going northbound towards Crews have knocked vice will be disrupted dur- the Major Deegan Express- out street parking between ing the yearlong project. way. the intersection of Jerome A similar project is hap- But the project is not and Bainbridge avenues to pening further south on nearly over. Jerome Avenue and the en- Bainbridge Avenue near Construction crews for trance of Allen Shandler East 205th Street, which the massive water pipe re- ballfield, to make way for has been happening since placement project have en- a 48-inch wide pipe that the summer.
Photo by Joseph Konig CREWS ARE SETTLED in to the second phase of the Bainbridge Avenue water project. Pictured is the northbound side of Jerome Avenue near Bainbridge Avenue with bulldozers standing by.
Editor’s Note: The tions or concerns. She DDC has assigned Yosha- can be reached at (718) belle Desulme to be the 644-2065 or email at Bain- community construction li- bridgeprojectccl@gmail. aison to answer any ques- com.
Two Men Charged in Teen’s Killing
(continued from page 5) family was busy raising money more to do with the suspect’s with a cousin expected to ar- mistakenly believing that Angel rive in the Bronx in the com- spoke to police about the recent ing days to claim Angel’s body theft of a motorized scooter. and return him to Honduras for Angel had rented a fourth- burial. floor bedroom from a friend A GoFundMe page set up for on the block, on and off since Angel’s flight home and burial arriving in New York in June has so far raised $1,735 of the 2017, after immigrating from $15,000 friends had hoped to Honduras. raise. One published report quot- A video of photos from An- ing Angel’s roommate, said the gel’s life that was posted by teen had joined a gang, but had his brother Julio, has so far recently “tried to quit.” When received over 6,000 views. Ju- confronted with his comment lio wrote, “Nobody leaves this about Angel joining and quit- earth without paying this pain ting a gang, the roommate back- I have in my chest. I would like tracked, telling the Norwood to face the cowards and tear off News, “I don’t know,” with a their heads one by one.” When forced laugh. He added, “I don’t contacted through social me- know... no.” dia, Julio said, “I have nothing Inside the fourth-floor to say. I reserve my comments, apartment, the roommate said but thanks for asking.” that Angel was unemployed, but Appearing before a judge often spent time with a brother late Sunday night, Almonte was and sister who live in the New held without bail, Adames’ bail York area, and that Angel “en- was set at $50,000. joyed playing the guitar and Meantime, a makeshift me- piano,” adding, “he was very morial comprised of candles good.” and photographs was set up The roommate said that the near where Angel died. Stop Work Orders Issued at 2 of 4 New Norwood Projects 8 • December 20, 2018-January 2, 2019 • Norwood News
PART 5 of 5 The Norwood News, WFUV radio, and BronxNet TV conclude their fi ve-part series on the impact of gangs in the Bronx. In Gang Attacks, Bodegas Lobbied to Serve as Line of Defense
By JULIA ROSE HERMAN of locking the front door. “They tried to break the glass door,” said Lara. “They were going to kill the As gang-related spats touch off on guy. So I grabbed a pipe and went outside Bronx streets, leading to bloody conse- to face them. What are you going to do? quences, they can spill inside the oft-om- It’s a life. It’s a kid.” nipresent local bodegas, putting owners Lara said the 15-year-old, “tried to and employees on the front lines. Edward stand up three times. He couldn’t because Lara knows this first hand. they hit him in the head. They hit him Lara, owner of Deli Grocery in the only for like five seconds. If they hit him Highbridge section of the Bronx, fended for two minutes they would have killed off an attack of a teen by a mob of teens him.” on Oct. 29 at around 6:30 p.m. In that in- Lara said he had no time to think stance, he put his life on the line. about consequences, he just acted. “It’s a “A young guy, 15 years old, he came human being. I didn’t have time to think asking for help. ‘Please help me, they about it, it’s a life,” Lara said. are going to kill me,’ those were the only For Councilman Andy King, Lara’s Image still from surveillance video words he said to me,” recalled Lara. situation presents the ideal outcome be- EDWARD LARA (PICTURED facing camera) keeps a young man from entering his Video surveillance showed the mob hind his Safe Haven Initiative he began bodega to attack a 15-year-old on Halloween. rushing into Lara’s bodega and attacking three years ago. The initiative, according the young boy. Lara and several employ- to King, would allow owners to use their attacks. Store owners from the North Bronx and ees pushed the attackers out of the store, bodegas to protect young children from The initiative, King said, offers the Woodlawn, King said, have expressed in- chance for “neighborhoods to be neighbor- terest. He conceded that no bodega owners hoods, and getting our storefront owners to have “received any training at this point.” be a part of it...It kind of stalled a little bit.” King said installing panic buttons in After the death of Lesandro “Junior” Guz- stores will be part of the initiative. “I’ve man-Feliz at Cruz and Chiky Grocery in spoken to technology companies who are the Belmont section of the Bronx in June, interested in trying to help in this pro- King revisited the initiative. cess,” said King, but declined to release Junior was misidentified by the Trini- the names of the companies he is speak- tarios gang as a rival gang member. The ing with, “because we are still at the early gang members grouped up in cars and be- stages.” gan chasing Junior. He ran into the bodega Lara said he has never heard of the Safe for safety but was denied help from the Haven Zone Initiative or spoken to King. MOSHOLU OPTICAL shop owner. Video surveillance captured Saving young people from gang attacks, Junior brutally killed outside the doors Lara said, is a lot simpler than it is being of the bodega. Now, Cruz and Chiky Gro- made out to be. He said that there is not IS MOVING! cery is under new management with a new much bodega owners themselves can actu- name - Waggy’s Grocery. Three store clerks ally do during a crisis situation. declined to answer questions on its recep- “The responsibility is on the police. We Our new home will be tion by the community. call the police, 911, because we really need When pressed on specifics of the initia- it,” Lara said, adding he’s called the police 1 East Gun Hill Road, tive, King simply had an outline with no at least once a year since he’s been in busi- discernible platform on training. “Right ness for the last 30 years. Starting January 1, 2019 now, we are kicking back the conversations Police were slow to Lara’s call to 911, he again, bringing the resources in, to move said. It took 20 minutes for officers to ar- full steam ahead,” he said. “We are in the rive at his store the night of the incident, he pipeline of early planning and putting it all noted. “We would like to get the same ser- Moving from together.” vice as when you call and say ‘police down, King’s initiative has not happened police down,’” said Lara. 3490 Jerome Avenue without false starts. Over the summer, he For now, he’s on his own, ready to fend hosted a training session in the Edenwald off attacks. section of the Bronx where two officers “The bodega is the only place in busi- CALL US AT from the 47th Precinct Community Affairs ness that the customer is like family. Kids Unit began a workshop session where no come here after school to wait for their par- (718) 654-5860 questions on safeguarding children from ents. Sometimes parents leave the house attackers was raised. key for the kids here,” Lara said. December 20, 2018-January 2, 2019 • Norwood News • 9 10 • December 20, 2018-January 2, 2019 • Norwood News Holidays in the Bronx The Bronx sure knows how to celebrate the holidays! Throughout December, several organizations, including Mosholu Preserva- Photo by José A. Giralt Photo by José A. Giralt tion Corporation (publishers of the Norwood AFTER COMMUNITY BOARD 7’s Annual Holiday SIMONE EVANS EL holds on to some goodies News), were out in full force, hosting a num- Tree Lighting Ceremony, children play underneath while being held up by her grandfather, Quentin ber of Yuletide events meant to cheer every- the tree. Evans El, during Community Board 7’s Annual Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony on the Mosholu one up during the season of giving. Parkway Lawn.
Photo by José A. Giralt STUDENTS FROM PS/MS 20 sing as a chorus during Community Board 7’s Annual Holiday Tree Lighting Cer- emony on the Mosholu Parkway Lawn.
Photo by Miriam Quinones SANTA MAKES AN appearance at the 52nd Precinct holiday fl otilla event on Dec. 7. The fl oat started off at the precinct on Webster Avenue before making stops at several locations throughout the neighborhood.
Photo by Miriam Quinones (LEFT) SANTA CLAUS is surrounded by this group of kids posing with their presents courtesy of Old Saint Nick and the Jerome Gun Hill BID. December 20, 2018-January 2, 2019 • Norwood News • 11 Holidays in the
Photo by Miriam Quinones Bronx PLENTY OF FACES can be seen at the fl otilla, among them newly appointed commanding offi cer of the 52nd Precinct, Deputy Inspector Thomas Alps (fourth from left).
Photo by José A. Giralt Photo by Miriam Quinones SANTA CLAUS STOPS by to hand out goodies with help from an assistant (l) during ASSEMBLYWOMAN NATHALIA FERNANDEZ (l) and Council- the Bronx Community Board 7 Annual Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony on the Mo- man Andrew Cohen (r) share a moment with Santa Claus at the sholu Parkway Lawn. annual Jerome Gun Hill BID tree lighting on Dec. 11.
Photo by Mosholu Preservation Corporation LIGHTS UP! The holiday tree at the corner of White Plains Road and East Photo by Mosholu Preservation Corporation Gun Hill Road glows for the fi rst time Photo courtesy Gloria Bent (L-R) KINGSBRIDGE ROAD MERCHANTS Associa- at the annual holiday tree lighting, (L-R) THE TREE LIGHTING event at the Jerome Gun Hill tion Vice President Christian Ramos, Mosholu Preser- courtesy of Mosholu Preservation Business Improvement District (JGHBID) puts smiles on the vation Corporation Executive Director Jennifer Tausig, Corporation and the East 233rd Street faces of JGHBID Executive Director Jennifer Tausig, Santa and Councilman Fernando Cabrera pose in front of the and White Plains Road Merchants As- Claus, Community Board 7 Chair Jean Hill, JGHBID Com- brightly lit holiday tree situated at Barnhill Square on sociation. munity Liaison Ariana Cipriani, and North Central Bronx Kingsbridge Road near Reservoir Avenue. Hospital Register Dietician Gloria Bent. 12 • December 20, 2018-January 2, 2019 • Norwood News
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SEE ABSTRACT AND contemporary images blend together at IMAGE OF AN IMAGE, an exhibition at the Bronx Museum 3, 2019. of the Arts (see Exhibits for more information). December 20, 2018-January 2, 2019 • Norwood News • 19 Pressure’s on Bedford Pk. Housing Plan (continued from page 1) ugees. Their housing development arm schools and businesses in Community var Builders, LLC, is listed as the “Gen- District Manager Ischia Bravo, a Bed- was established in 2005, with the goal Board 7 as a reason for a scaling back eral Contractor” in CAMBA’s initial ford Park resident, told the Norwood of providing affordable housing for low of this project. School District 10, which proposal. News. “What are we doing in the city of income, disabled or homeless New York encompasses Norwood, Bedford Park According to CAMBA’s revised pre- New York? We’re just building buildings City residents. and most of the Northwest Bronx, is the sentation, the non-profit will reduce and we’re not thinking about education The Bedford Park locations would be most overcrowded district in the bor- tenant recreation space to add parking and our kids because these buildings CAMBA’s first housing development in ough. spaces and a double-width driveway that are ultimately bringing in families and the Bronx and, according to the city’s Bedford Park has been at the cen- will allow “vehicles to enter on 202nd we want to make sure our CB7 residents Housing Preservation and Development ter of a development furor over the last Street and exit onto 203rd Street.” One or residents of the city of New York are (HPD) agency, the project has not yet decade, but some projects are more of CB7’s major concerns was the flow of receiving the proper resources.” applied for city financing. In the past, welcome than others. Just around the traffic on the narrow streets the build- Bravo said she believes that any CAMBA construction projects in Brook- corner from the CAMBA site, a 68-unit ings are being built on. development accepting city funding lyn have used funding from the Brook- apartment building at 3188 Villa Ave. Anna Hernandez, a resident at 253 E. should go through a process similar to lyn Borough President’s Office, HPD’s received a conditional letter of support 203rd St., one of the buildings adjacent the Uniform Land Use Review Proce- Supportive Housing Loan Program, from CB7 before its groundbreaking to the proposed site, said that finding dure (ULURP), the approval process de- City Council “Reso A” capital funds, ceremony on Dec. 7. That project is be- parking on the block can sometimes velopers must go through when applying and other state and federal housing ing handled by the DOE Fund, a non- take hours already. “The parking is go- to use or alter city-owned land. ULURP programs. Once in operation, CAMBA profit that provides services and op- ing to be limited,” Hernandez said. “My requires many layers of community and buildings work in concert with the New portunities similar to those offered by boyfriend comes on the weekend and he government approval, as stakeholders York City Department of Health and CAMBA. has to leave because of the frustration of determine how a new structure and in- Mental Hygiene and the New York City The site of the proposed CAMBA not finding parking.” flux of residents will impact the commu- Department of Homeless Services. buildings is owned by Peter Fine, a no- Bravo said she believes CAMBA is nity. Oftentimes, a ULURP application “When these monies are given to torious Bronx developer who consis- doing good work, but insisted the con- can take six months without any inter- some of these developers they need to tently clashes with the communities he tinued development of Bedford Park ruptions. take into consideration what does a works in. The now-bulldozed lots once is a threat to the limited resources the “I think you should be forced to do an project of this size mean for the commu- included 267 E. 202nd St., a two-story community has to offer. “We need more environmental study at the beginning of nity,” Bravo said. “What impact will it building whose tenants went to war affordable housing, we need permanent that project especially when you’re re- have on the schools, the local businesses with Fine over evictions and mistreat- housing and there’s a big need and we questing money,” Bravo said. and any other local resources that right ment. 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