Mega-Plans for Melrose Development “This Project Has It All
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Offi cials have chosen a team of developers to transform the last large city-owned vacant South Bronx lot into a fi ve-building complex that will create nearly a 2013 thousand low- and middle-income housing units. Provided the city works out the fi nancial details with the develop Major news of past year Continued on Page 1 BY BOB KAPPSTATTER, BEN will become the world’s largest KOCHMAN AND PATRICK ROCCHIO ice rink complex. In April, Mayor TOP BRONX NEWS STORIES Goodbye 2013, hello 2014. Bloomberg, Borough President RHOOD Who knows what this coming Ruben Diaz Jr. and other local offi - BO - YO GH U year holds, but what we DO know cials announced that they had en- EI R N N is how the Bronx fared this past dorsed the Kingsbridge National E R W U year, from major developments Ice Center (KNIC) over a compet- S O ® helping to reshape the borough, ing proposal that called for an ar- Y to important local neighborhood tisanal marketplace. issues, and a welcome continuing KNIC’s plan calls for nine reg- drop in crime levels not seen in ulation-size ice hockey rinks and a Batista. Aracelis by Photo many decades. 5,000-seat arena inside the 750,000 THE BRONX CLASSIFIEDS FOR A long dis-used armory will square foot cavernous castle. see new life as a mega-ice palace, KNIC Partners, a development FreshDiredt is trying to sprout a group led by former Wall Street The Bronx Times new home in the South Bronx, at executive Kevin Parker, signed a On-Line least the historic murals will re- community benefi ts agreement in main in the iconic General Post which it promised to pay its work- Your world is Offi ce on the Concourse, and talks ers a “living wage” —$10 with 24/7... NOW (and opposition) are underway to benefi ts, or $11.50/hour without THE LATEST BRONX SPORTS SCORES BRONX SPORTS THE LATEST Holiday Smiles For Santa see a new soccer stadium for the benefi ts — as well as give the com- so are we. borough. munity 50,000 feet of space and Isabella Contacessa gets an early present from Santa at annual party at- So, let’s get to it: fund local skating lessons. KNIC ÜÜÜ°LÝÌiðV tended by Pelham Bay, Throggs Neck and Country Club residents belong- KINGSBRIDGE ARMORY brought in former New York Rang- ing to the Surf Club in New Rochelle. The city made it offi cial in ers star Mark Messier as its CEO. 2013: the long-dormant armory Continued on Page 1 &//$s(%!,4(s4%#(./,/'9 A CNG Publication • Vol. 20 No. 1 www.bxtimes.com Checking out some resolutions Boro movers and shakers’ New Year promises Come the end of 2014, we National Ice Center and the district. promise not to dredge these PGA caliber golf course at Borough resolution: For New Year’s resolutions up Ferry Point Park , which the Bronx to get ferry ser- again to embarrass or chas- complement our Borough’s vice. tise thir contributors. Good crown jewels like the new *** intentions sometimes just Yankee Stadium, and the Kenneth Kearns, Dis- don’t make it all the way. But New York Botanical Gar- trict Manager of Commu- hey, at least we can hope. den. In 2014, Bronxites and nity Board 10 We polled a number of visitors will witness ground- PERSONAL RESOLU- Bronx movers and shakers, breaking projects coming to TION: To be develop strate- as they say, for their good in- fruition, marking the Bronx gies to ensure that residents tentions, both personal and as an of Community Board 10 re- for the borough we all love. international destination ceive better services from As for us here at the for shopping and sports. our new Mayor. Bronx Times Reporter, it’s My new year’s resolution BORO RESOLUTION: BRONX TIMES REPORTER jan. 3-9, 2014 2 jan. TIMES REPORTER BRONX pretty much what we try for Borough President Ruben DIaz for the Bronx is to continue That the borough continue every week – striving to de- Jr. hopes to keep the economic our work toward a brighter its renaissance and that liver the important news of development rolling in the new future for the residents of people outside of it recog- your communities and your this great Borough we all nize it and to stop tagging year. Councilman James Vacca’s hoping for Bronx ferry access in 2014. borough in an informative call home. us with outdated visions of and where needed, enter- Personal Resolution: the past. taining way. of new housing units have “For 2014 I’m making a reso- *** Herewith, everyone been constructed here, new lution to be healthier by eat- Former Assemblyman soms with successful busi- PERSONAL RESOLU- else’s resolutions: businesses are coming to ing clean- and to cook more Stephen Kaufman, presi- nesses. TION: To put myself in less Borough President Ru- our borough and the exist- often for my wife.” dent of the Throggs Neck *** stressful situations: “When ben Diaz Jr. ing businesses are growing. *** Merchants Association Community Board 11 somebody drives me nuts, “The Bronx has come a We are at the forefront in East Bronx City Coun- a) That I lose ten pounds Chairman Anthony Vi- I’d like to sometimes turn long way in the past year. ‘green’ construction, with cilman Jimmy Vacca for the year and Bronxites taliano the other cheek.” Our borough is not just lead- projects like Via Verde. 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