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Young sluggers at the Bronx of managers. “You really can’t play Twomey, who had a deep love YMCA will soon have the chance baseball unless you have a fi eld for Bronx history, wrote several to swing for the fences on a proper that’s appropriate for the game.” books on his favorite subject in fi eld. The distance from home plate addition to writing the column The borough’s only Y branch to parts of the outfi eld is a mere 100 has landed a $250,000 grant to re- feet, far less than regulation size for Continued on Page 63 place the water-damaged ball fi elds organized youth baseball. on its Castle Hill Avenue campus A parking lot currently swal- TOP BRONX NEWS STORIES with a sparkling new baseball dia- lows most of what would be left RHOOD mond. fi eld. BO - YO GH U Funding for the new fi eld — “If the shortstop turns around, EI R N N which YMCA staff say should be the wall is just behind him,” said E R W U ready for play by the end of the sum- Rodriguez. S O ® mer — comes from the charitable Hitters are forced to step way Y arm of the Super Bowl Host Com- back in the batter’s box and tilt mittee, headed by the owners of the their stance toward right fi eld, in NFL’s New York Giants and Jets, order to recreate the regulations of Photo by Ken Carozza who hosted last season’s big game a true baseball diamond. THE BRONX CLASSIFIEDS FOR at Giants Stadium. Plans for the new fi eld call for The committee’s “Snowfl ake shifting home plate to where right Youth Foundation” says it has fi eld is now and extending the out- The Bronx Times raised more than $13 million to sup- fi eld, which will allow sluggers to On-Line port community programs in New take full swings. York and New Jersey. Your world is Sandy’s wrath lingers 24/7... NOW Car Plunges Over Overpass Building a true fi eld The current fi eld — located on THE LATEST BRONX SPORTS SCORES BRONX SPORTS THE LATEST The folks who use the current the shore of the East River — also so are we. A horrifi c accident in Throggs Neck claimed the life of a man on Friday, shoddy fi eld called the funding a has lingering water damage from June 20. The car he was driving crashed through barriers on an E. Trem- home run. Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane ÜÜÜ°LÝÌiðV ont Avenue overpass and fell 23 feet onto the Bruckner Expressway. See “We will fi nally have a viable Irene. story on page 8. fi eld for our youth,” said Eliezer Ro- Grass on the fi eld has yet to fully driguez, who leads practices there Continued on Page 63 &//$s(%!,4(s4%#(./,/'9 A CNG Publication • Vol. 20 No. 26 www.bxtimes.com BRONX TIMES REPORTER June 27-July 3, 2014 2 June 27-July TIMES REPORTER BRONX 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 (718) 547-5280 Sold! The Bronx Times has new owners! 3, 2014 June 27-July TIMES REPORTER 3 BRONX BY NATHAN TEMPEY of Les and Jennifer Goodstein.” Meet the new bosses! Before joining News Corpora- Local-news moguls Les and tion in 2006, Les Goodstein had a Jennifer Goodstein are in the pro- 28-year-career with the Daily News cess of buying the Community in which he worked his way up to Newspaper Group, the umbrella president and chief operating of- company that publishes the Bronx fi cer. At the meeting he said that Times, the Bronx Times Reprorter, the apparent belt-tightening at his the TimesLedger of Queens, the former employer is a signal that the The Brooklyn Paper, and several community newspaper and news other weekly papers and specialty website model is a winning one. magazines, the husband-and-wife “You may have heard that to- team announced to the assembled day the Daily News raised its cover staff in the Brooklyn offi ce this price from 75 cents to a buck and a morning. Jennifer Goodstein runs quarter,” Goodstein said. “We now Manhattan’s Community Media have Manhattan, Queens, and the newspaper chain and husband Les Bronx, and we are in a good posi- formed the Community Newspaper tion to grow.” Group as an executive for the inter- Les Goodstein with some of his newly purchased newspapers. Also in store is a move by the national media conglomerate News Photos by Community Newspaper Group Community Media Group’s Man- Corporation, overseeing it until hattan staff, which produces free his retirement in July 2013. But he of the company from “Community executive said in a statement. neighborhood weeklies includ- Jennifer Goodstein could not stomach staying idle. Newspaper Group” to “Community “This sale, like our divestiture of ing The Villager and Downtown “When I left I said, like Arnold News Group.” The new company the Dow Jones Local Media Group, Express, to the Community News fi ce,” Goodstein said. “So I know Schwarzenegger in ‘The Termina- will partner with News Corpora- helps us reshape the News Corp Group’s Downtown Brooklyn offi ce they’ll enjoy being back.” tor,’ ‘I’ll be back,’ ” Goodstein said. tion to continue publishing the portfolio as we achieve greater glo- in MetroTech Center. The Manhat- Les Goodstein closed by saying “It is incredibly gratifying to come outer-borough Weekly inserts that balization and digitization of our tan team worked out of the Brook- that the purchase was the culmi- back and run the operation I helped appear in the Sunday New York businesses with an eye towards lyn offi ce for several months follow- nation of a lifelong dream. “My fa- put together for News Corp.” Post, Goodstein said. News Corpo- long-term growth,” said Robert ing Hurricane Sandy and Jennifer vorite movie is ‘Citizen Kane,’ ” the The sale is in progress and ration sold the local papers for the Thomson, chief executive at the Goodstein said it was tough to con- cinephile said. “And I always loved will be made offi cial on July 1, he same reason it sold a chain of New media giant. “We’re confi dent that vince them to leave. the part where he buys a newspa- said. Among the most immediate England papers last summer: to fo- these newspapers and magazines “Some of the group had a hard per. Aside from the whole personal- changes in store is the renaming cus on global and online efforts, an will prosper under the leadership time going back to the current of- ity part.” Courtanie saved for her very first apartment on her own. Read Courtanie’s story on NYCDCA: nyc.gov SAVE FOR YOUR FUTURE. 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